Tony-OH

Watching this team play defense is one of the worst experiences you can have as a baseball fan. They do just about everything wrong. Forget the massive amounts of errors, but it's all the double clutches, lack of handling close plays, lack of arm strength, lack of ability to turn a double play, missed cut off men, cut off men in the wrong place, guys not covering a base. U G L Y. Oh, and remember when I once just stuck Harif Frias as the #75 prospect for his good numbers in the DSL? Yikes. Watched him tonight with Delmarva. He should never have left the FCL. No command, not a plus pitch, with a lengthy slinger delivery that does not suggest he will ever have either.

Simple poll. If you can only have one of them on this team right now, for this season, who do you want on the team?

They need to adjust the blown save to the pitcher who's "earned run" blew the save. If an error "blew the save" then none is awarded.

Back to the point, she's not good, but tolerable on TV when I can see the action for myself. On radio? i need blood pressure meds to get through more an an inning or two.

Not going to lie, that made me laugh!

The screech. It's sounds like if someone stepped on my cats tail... "It's a skyball to left field, (left fielder) goes over (not giving a distance yet) he's on the warning track (still no indication of whether he's camped under it, looking back towards the fans, nothing). SSSCCCRRREEEETCCHCHHHHHHHHHH Run!" On the radio, I never know whether a sky ball or high ball is a pop up, a regular fly ball, a foul ball, a long fly ball, or a no doubter home run." Basically I just wait for the crowd reaction and make my own mental call.

I saw Gunnar kinda of pose after he hit it and thought, "That's out" then the camera shows the outfielder standing there looking up and I was like, "Rats." Then Newman made it out to be a can of corn and thoughts "Double rats." Then it became a home run!

I'm still friends with his Dad (Rick) on Facebook and we used to interact a lot. He was good guy overall, but yes, family members are too close to the situation for the most part.

By the way, did anyone notice Povich was taken as an underslot 3rd round pick ($500k), a pick after Mason Miller ($599k) was drafted by the A's in the 2021 draft. Not to beat this dead horse, but the Orioles selected John Rhodes 21 picks before Miller and gave him overslot at $1,375,000. Sometimes you win some (Gunnar/Westburg) and sometimes you lose some in those 2nd-3rd rounds. And yes, this is where @DrungoHazewood or @Frobby tells us that most players are misses in these rounds which is 100% correct. I'm just hoping seeing how some of these 3rd round pitchers have done well will help them select more in the higher rounds like they did in last draft. Also, I'm hoping with failures like Carter Young and Rhodes to a lesser extent, they realize guys that did not perform well in college the year before they get drafted may not have because they weren't that good. But that's a different subject than Povich so digress. I've moved Povich up to the top pitching prospect in the system but Luis DeLeon is right on his heels.

Potentially if the need exists late in the year, I could see Povich filling that down the stretch. Until that point/situation, he needs to to keep getting his reps as a starter. He's got a chance to be a guy here next year in the rotation.

I expected him to do that. He became tiring. I mean we all get that he loves himself some Povich, but his constant attacks on @Sports Guy when Rob even showed restraint (for Rob at least :D), was getting obnoxious. He's probably a former roommate or went to class with Povich or something. Remember when Parker Bridwell's mom came after you?

I guess I'm not quite convinced that Hays is done offensively as some of you are. I do think he's probably betters suited as a 4th outfielder, but he's a 4th outfielder that should still start 2-3 times a week.

That's funny, but I guess a player should think of himself as a "Ferrari" vs a "Yugo." Players need to to think if they played everyday they could be a star. they need that kind of confidence in themselves because self doubt will kill their career quickly.

Jim Hunter called and said he wants his stats back.

I'm with you here. Maybe it's the old school part or me, and I certainly wouldn't worry about getting win for my pitcher over making the right bullpen move, but I do hate it when a pitcher deserves a "W" and doesn't get it because of a bad performance in the bullpen . The win stat is not a great stat, afterall, any stats that won't give a pitcher a win after pitcher 4 2/3 innings but give it to the 1st reliever who pitch an inning of relief, is a flawed stat. I do want to see Adley hit over .300, and I do want to see a hitter drive in 100 runs. I like those stats. It doesn't mean you evaluate too hard over them, but they are stats that have some meaning in the right context.