Not every player finds immediate success immediately after making their MLB debut, but that doesn't mean they'll end being that same player for their entire career. 

Sometimes, a player needs another opportunity to show what they can provide to a team, and that's exactly the situation the Cleveland Guardians are in with one of their top prospects, Cooper Ingle.

Even though Ingle struggled in multiple ways earlier this season, he still deserves another chance at the big-league level. 

Cooper Ingle's first big-league stint did not go great at the plate. He only logged two hits in 21 at-bats and carried a strikeout rate of 50 percent, too.

This incredibly small sample size shouldn't be the only indicator of what to use to predict Ingle's ceiling at the Major League level, though, because he's done nothing but hit at Triple-A throughout this year.

Ingle has logged a .314/.433/.585 slash line throughout the 2026 Minor League season. The left-hander has continued his tear at the plate since he was optioned back down to Triple-A on July 7. Ingle owns a 1.106 OPS and a 185 wRC+ during that stretch.

Ingle has nothing left to prove at Triple-A, and he won't continue his development by seeing the same level of pitching he's already mastered on a nightly basis.

At some point, Cleveland needs to see whether or not these dominant Triple-A numbers will translate to the big leagues.

The initial calls for Ingle to be promoted earlier this season came when the Guardians' offense was struggling to put anything together at the plate.

Nearly two months later, it's the same story for Cleveland, and the argument for giving Ingle another opportunity is the exact same: perhaps he can give the Guardians' lineup a much-needed boost. 

Since the All-Star Break, the Guardians have a team OPS of .691 and have been even worse with runners in scoring position. This group still has a lot of room for improvement. 

Maybe Ingle is never going to be the above-average hitter for the Guardians that he's shown potential to be. That said, given the state of Cleveland's lineup, it wouldn't hurt whatsoever to give Ingle another opportunity.

One potential hurdle in calling Ingle back up is determining where and when he'd get at-bats. Cleveland is still incredibly heavy on left-handed hitters.

The most likely scenario at this point is that Ingle is one of the two players to join the big-league roster when it expands in September, even though one could argue it should come earlier.