00:01and you look at him going to the minor leagues,
00:03I wouldn't look at it as demotion.
00:05I would look at it as a promotion.
00:08Why is it a promotion?
00:09He gets to play every day.
00:11He gets to hit every day,
00:13which he hasn't been able to over the first three months of this season.
00:17He gets to catch every day,
00:19and he's showing a lot of promise behind the plate
00:23the few times that he's been able to catch.
00:25So let him catch every day for a month.
00:29You know, the way that Amaya has been catching and not hitting a lot,
00:35you know, will they be able to share that with him going down in the second half?
00:40Finding a better way to develop this really good young hitter
00:45and get him to play more,
00:47I think that's how I would look at it if he did go to the minor leagues.
00:50David, you and I have talked about him being demoted as a promotion
00:56because of the fact that he has so much potential as a power hitter
01:01and a line drive hitter that you don't want him sitting for too long.
01:06So is he better off?
01:07Is the team better off by him getting at bats every day?
01:11We'll find out today.
01:12It appears they will find out.
01:14Now it's updated on their Cubs.com under transactions.
01:20Dated yesterday, last night, Chicago Cubs optioned Moises Ballesteros to Iowa.
01:25So they don't have a corresponding move yet,
01:27but what you just said is going to be valid.
01:30And look, they have other examples from everyone from, in the past,
01:35Kyle Schwarber to Ian Happ to Matt Shaw, Pete Crow Armstrong,
01:38guys who went down to Iowa, came back better for it,
01:42and maybe that's going to be the path that Moises Ballesteros takes now.
01:45Yeah, I think we live in a different era of looking at demotions
01:51rather than looking at them as failure.
01:53You look at them as an opportunity to develop.
01:57And they're just as high on Moises Ballesteros
02:01as a productive hitter in the National League going forward.
02:05It's just a fact right now he's going to be better off down there.
02:09And the bats just aren't going to be there for him
02:12with the progress of Shaw right now.
