Damn those Pirates! Chisen-haul. Car-Utoh

There is an awesomely large number of pictures like this one
of Neal Huntington's face pasted on movie posters.

So yesterday I wrote about the Pirates outfield logjam and how the money that was tied up in OFers  Martepartay and Jose Tabata might have been causing the Pirates to delay the call up of super stud uber prospect OF Gregory Polanco even though Marte and Tabata had been sucking hard in the last few weeks.  Of course, then Marte goes out and fills the boxscore putting up a 3 for 4 night with a pair of doubles and a couple of RBIs and a stolen base.  Then, aproximately 7 hours later, the Pirates went and called Polanco up.    Perhaps we need to add Pirates GM Neal Huntington to the list of esteemed Tot Blog readers?  Either that or I am the greatest forum/blog jinxer of all time.  Anybody have someone struggling?  Let me know, I'll come up with a post about them and then see if they go off on a tear.
More likely, Marte just isnt a bad enough player to never get a hit again.  The 3 for 4 night still makes him 3 for his last 24 and just 4 for his last 32.  A rebound has to start somewhere, but with Polanco coming up the opportunity to get enough bats to rebound just got a bit smaller.
As for Polanco, the injury to 2b Neil Walker will push OF/super utility guy (and former Cub prospect)Josh Harrison to second base to fill in for Walker, which opens up the door for Polanco in right field with Tabata and Martepartay platooning in left.  Had the Pirates put Walker on the DL and called up someone else, there likely would have been riots up and down the Allegheny River and the Pirate Parrot would have need to go into hiding or risk being kidnapped and held for ransom (ala Celtic Pride, only with less Damon Wayans).  Huntington's decision once Walker is ready to come off the DL will be a difficult one.  If Polanco starts out slow and struggles for the next 2 weeks, he very well could end up back in Indianapolis.  But if Polanco blows up like #SpringerDinger, Huntington will have a mess on his hands because one of the OFers will need to be sent down and only the most versitile of them, Harrison, is making a minimal amount of money.  How quickly you getting him into your lineup Tyler?


Lonnie Chisenhall.  5 for 5 3 HR 9 RBI.  Free agent. 
I am gonna let that marinate for a minute. 

I am sure that at least a couple of you have contemplated a Chisenhall add over the past few weeks, I know that I have.  I have looked at the batting average around .360 for the past few weeks, the sky high OBP over .400 all season, the slugging around .525, the picture perfect lefty swing that makes the birds sing and poets cry and thought seriously about dumping on of my bench players to take a flier on the Chis.  But then I have looked at his 4 HRs (coming into yesterday), the fact that he barely made the team out of spring training (and he would be riding the pine pony if Carlos Santana wasnt hitting like a 12 year old), that Chisenhall is a thrice failed prospect who looked to have earned AAAA status coming into the year and that I have Paul Goldschmidt and David Wright (both definitely better than AAAA) manning the corners for me and I have been unable to click the add button.  After last nights explosion pushed Chisenhall to 385/429/615, I am guessing that we will be taking about him in the waiver add section next week.

CarGo decides to let Dr. cut his finger open just to look around.
Apparently Carlos Gonzalez's finger injury is a bit more serious than I had realized.  It sounds like last week, CarGo's finger had swollen so much that he couldnt even get his batting glove on.  I almost feel bad for ragging on him for struggling so much in the past few weeks in last Friday's ass hDLes segment...no...no I dont because I am a heartless bastard.  Anyways, after testing, ultra sounds and MRIs, nothing was found to be wrong. So now a team Dr is going to cut into his finger, "to poke around inside the finger to see if the root of the problem will show itself." All of a sudden this sounds pretty serious.  If you're resorting to letting someone cut your finger open to poke around in hopes they might find the cause,  am not counting on you to come back and be productive any time soon at a job which requires those hands to do something extremely difficult, like...i dunno...hitting a baseball with a bat.  And I have CarGo in another league.  Boo that man.