Joey Gallo to Make Major League Debut Tuesday

By Peyton Wesner

No need to fear Texas Rangers' fans! Joey Gallo is here! With four time All-Star, Gold Glove Award winner, and Silver Slugger Award winner Adrian Beltre heading to the fifteen day DL with a sprained left thumb suffered in the fifth inning of yesterday's Boston/Texas matchup, two time All-Star Futures Game participant and 2014 All-Star Futures Game Most Valuable Player Joey Gallo will be recalled from Double-A Frisco. Gallo, who is a first baseman turned third baseman because of Prince Fielder's presence in Arlington, was injured to begin the regular season due to surgery to remove his os trigonum bone in his left ankle. The surgery caused MLB.com's ninth top prospect in baseball to miss the RoughRiders's first fourteen games of the season as he played his first on April 25. Since his season debut, the power hitting third baseman has played thirty-four games while batting .314 with nine long balls and thirty-one runs batted in. If those numbers don't impress, Gallo bombed a Minor League baseball best forty homeruns between Rookie League and Hickory (Single-A) in 2013 and the second most in the Minors with forty-two between Myrtle Beach (Single-A Advanced) and Frisco (Double A) in 2014. Although Rangers' general manager Jon Daniels has made it clear that Gallo will be sent back to the farm when Beltre returns, now is his time to belt Texas-sized homeruns on the biggest stage and it will only be a matter of time before he has his first victim.