The Rays are preparing to promote outfielder Kameron Misner from Triple-A Durham, reports Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. He’ll sign up with the active lineup in location of Richie Palacios, who is headed for the 10-day hurt list after tweaking his knee in the other day’s loss to Miami. Tampa Bay will require to choose Misner’s agreement however has 3 vaccines on the 40-man lineup after their slate of due date trades.

Now 26, Misner was as soon as a highly-regarded draft possibility. The Marlins picked him 35th total in the 2019 draft coming out of the University of Missouri. He’d quickly reached Double-A in the Miami system by the time they sent him to Tampa Bay in an intra-state trade to land experienced infielder Joey Wendle.

The book on Misner has actually been the very same going back to his college days. He has huge power in a 6’4″ frame. He takes a lot of strolls and has an unexpected quantity of athleticism for a gamer his size. Scouting reports have actually constantly questioned his pure striking capability, however, with some critics putting a 30 (well below-average on the 20-80 hunting scale) on his hit tool.

Misner has actually invested almost 2 complete seasons in Durham and continued to carry out to those expectations. He’s a profession .236/.360/.453 player in almost 1000 Triple-A plate looks. Misner has 36 crowning achievement, an enormous 15.7% walk rate, and has actually taken 48 bases in 57 efforts over 224 video games. The left-handed player has actually likewise set out in more than a 3rd of his journeys to the plate, the most significant factor he hadn’t gotten a big league call regardless of the huge on-base and power numbers.

The Rays have actually utilized Misner primarily in center field in the minors. He’ll most likely get more action in the corners on the MLB lineup. That’s particularly real with the Rays losing Palacios, who has actually begun 40 video games in a corner outfield area this season. Palacios has actually made a career-high 88 looks in general, striking .233/.350/.332 through 301 journeys to the plate. He’s on his 3rd group in as lots of seasons after the Rays switched him from the Cardinals for reducer Andrew Kittredge over the winter season.

Tampa Bay and St. Louis lined up another reducer for outfielder offer today, as the Rays delivered Shawn Armstrong to the Cards while taking a flier on previous leading possibility Dylan Carlson. The switch-hitting Carlson might get most of left field representatives while Misner includes a power bat to Kevin Cash’s bench.