Ask BD: Roster questions and the next callup

From cocktailsfor2

Who do you think

…is the next prospect to be *called up?

*includes injury fill-ins

My best guess is J.T. Brubaker. With Chris Archer and Joe Musgrove coming off surgery, and pitchers just being pitchers, there’s probably better than a 50/50 chance they’ll need somebody outside their anticipated rotation to make a start or two early in the season. Unless something changes, the candidates seem to be:

Nick Kingham

Clay Holmes

Mitch Keller

Brubaker

But Kingham and Holmes both pitched poorly over the last part of the season. It also looked, late in the year, like they might have been in the process of moving Holmes to relief. Keller just didn’t pitch well in AAA. Brubaker, though,…