The Dodgers mailbag at mlb.com addressed this very thing. As noted there, Tiffee is not of the 40-man roster, and therefore is a longshot to be promoted to LA. Because of the depth the Dodgers have at the position on the 40-man, it would inevitably cost them a player via waivers.

In response to your second question: no, 29 is not too old. Bob Brenly was called up in his late 20’s, and later made an all-star team. I don’t see Tiffee’s AAA performance thus far translating to the majors. At best he would be an adequate corner infielder. Realistically, he probably could fit somewhere as a utility man with potential to blossom into a good pinch hitter.

That said, I am very much rooting for Tiffee to prove otherwise. However, it will most likely have to be with another organization, barring a season-ending injury to someone on the Dodgers’ 40-man.

He’s really a Quad-A player with a shot at being a legitimate backup. People have become all-stars at his age, but he’s probably not the guy to do it. I’d say his likely upside is somewhere around Jack Hannahan, good enough to fill in but never quite good enough to have a job to call his own.

in a little less than 240 ab’s he’s put up a .226/..273/.351 line. Twins really leaned on him down the stretch in 05 and filled in a lot at 3rd. He just couldn’t hit offspeed stuff at the time. He always put up decent numbers, but if you look at a pretty extensive minor league track record you can tell that this seasons line is so much of an outlier that you wouldn’t want to waste a spot on the 40 man this early in the season. If he’s hitting like this in a month then it might be a different story.