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The draft of course is hit or miss, but it kinda stinks that Elias spent on $1,375,000 on John Rhodes 21 picks before the A's spent $599,000 on Miller. Oh well, it happens, but I wonder if that's why he went more pitchers this past draft.
It's Ben's Chili Bowl, which is half-smoke sausages that you can get chili on. I don't know if the stadium versions are the same, but the original Ben's is a DC institution.
Good post. Makes sense.
In JH's case, I do think the leg kick has something to do with it. And it goes back to the first quote in the OP about velocity. In the majors there is just more of it. You don't have near as much time (baseball speaking) to decide whether to swing or not. So the timing with the leg kick may work in the minors where velocity is less, but in the majors he may be a tad slow with it compared to the speed of the pitches he is seeing.
Looks like he is back into the swing of things at Norfolk so lets hope he made an adjustment and will be back up at some point.
He was dominant for his first 10-11 appearances, so I don’t buy “he just doesn’t have it anymore.” He doesn’t have it right now, that’s for sure. The O’s will try to nurse him back to it. They invested too much not to try.
Wow, that was a brutal read. I kept hoping for some silver lining at the end (besides the W). I've been there a few times and hate it. Bad stadium, total mess getting in and out, super expensive, and so forth. To lose a phone on top is terrible. I was swearing at the TV in the 9th but you had it far worse. Sorry, Frob.