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    • CaptainRedbeard
      Albert Suarez 2024

      By CaptainRedbeard · Posted

      I’m skeptical how much the lack of scouting report matters nowadays. They have all the same data on pitchers in AAA as they do in the MLB, you can figure out a lot about a pitcher without ever having someone there watching them. Not to discount that additional value, just to say it’s not like the old days when a guy could come up and be pretty much unknown.  Plus Suárez just pitched a lot in Spring Training and was pretty much exactly what we saw yesterday. 
    • CaptainRedbeard
      Albert Suarez 2024

      By CaptainRedbeard · Posted

      I definitely agree that we keep him in the rotation for as long as he is effective. It’s just with Bradish and Means coming back there’s that inevitable roster crunch incoming with all the out of options RP.  If he can maintain 96 as a SP and stay healthy then he should be a SP. He has 4 pitches even if relies heavily on the four seamer and cutter, but you could see him working in other pitchers more as he turned the lineup over. However, I’m skeptical he can actually maintain that velo with a SP workload over the course of a season and not get hurt. Big spikes in velo are often correlated with injuries, and you could see him running out of gas towards the end of his start yesterday and he threw less than 80 pitches. A bunch of 93s on the radar gun in that last inning.
    • Sports Guy
      Jackson Holliday 2024

      By Sports Guy · Posted

    • CaptainRedbeard
      John Means 2024

      By CaptainRedbeard · Posted

      I think it’s possible he would agree to be optioned, but he has 5 years and 7 days so being optioned for more than 3 weeks would cause him to not hit free agency this offseason. Once he’s optioned he can’t contractually force the Orioles to call him up quicker than those 3 weeks. They could make some sort of handshake agreement on it but it would be putting faith in the Orioles to stick to that. If he’s confident he’s healthy and as ready as he’s going to be, even if the Orioles are not, he’s better off rejecting an option. 
    • Frobby
      Norfolk 2024

      By Frobby · Posted

      Obviously they weren’t going to hit at that level, but this slump is surprising.  
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