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I thought it telling that Melanie N. had an interview with McKenna on MASN before last night's game dealing with how he prepares. Particularly prepares to enter a game late as a defensive replacement or pinch hitter. The interview was headed, Melanie speakes to McKenna about Orioles' early defensive success. I couldn't watch it all. Try it today for laughs or . -
By Can_of_corn · Posted
Which is something some of us have been saying this whole time. -
By DrungoHazewood · Posted
Remember when expansion supposedly diluted pitching? When I'd ask why expansion didn't dilute hitting just as much the answer was usually something along the lines of "well, it's obvious that there are all kinds of effects that the scarcity of pitching shows that there's just more hitters in the pipeline and kids these days can't see that the training and stuff isn't like the ways that the people did it back in the 50s and all that... yea." Until someone shows me relevant data confirming Rosenthal's hypothesis I'm going to assume he has no idea if it's true or not. But his article will now be cited as evidence by any number of people who claim it is. -
A lot would have to happen for Mayo to get called up. The ball is firmly in his court to change that. Besides, we have Kjerstad for the late game/DH bat off the bench. He’s already on the 40 man. He’s a lefty, he can play the outfield in a pinch. I like Mayo but I think he is simply not going to play this year because he’s not ready yet. Now that may change if there are trades and what not, but I just don’t see that happening for Mayo unless his defense makes a vast improvement. Playing every day in AAA means more opportunities to progress with the glove. That’s important. I could see Holliday could come up in the second half if there are trades and September for sure when the rosters expand a bit. But yeah, a lot would have to happen is all. -
By RarityFlaherty · Posted
Yeah Westy looks great at both 2nd and 3rd. There’s no way I move him to the outfield. I’d move Holliday out there first. To me, ideally the future infield is Henderson at SS, Westburg at 3rd, Holliday at 2nd, with Mayo sharing 1B/RF with Basallo and Kjerstad. If Basallo can stick as backup catcher and play some 1B, you could have a situation where almost everyone in our top 9 has at least two potential positions. That way, every player can be rotated to DH to give them a little rest, and another guy in our top 9 could be rotated into a secondary position to cover for them without needing to start bench players a lot. Then most of our bench could be guys who are defensive replacements or right handed bats to start against lefty pitchers.
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