Pickles

I mean, he had 5 Ks in 4 2/3 innings and 61% strike rate. Pretty hard to criticize that. I don't think anybody is saying that this start is the absolute peak of a Bradish performance, but saying he looked like he did last year because he had the same stuff: The 96 MPH+ fastballs and the two devastating breaking balls.

He really did. He looked exactly like the same guy from last year, which is obviously great news.

He's got an .866 OPS after a torrid Spring Training. How do you define "hitting?"

I'd let Stowers bat against LHP tbh. But for me it's more about throwing the guy a bone. Yeah, he might only be up a week, and get 4 at-bats, but he's on the 40, and he's not the kind of prospect I'm worried about interrupting his development etc.

Should have been Stowers.

Nintendo Hockey

1) The answer to which player I would prefer would be heavily dependent on the rest of my roster. 2) Setting it so it is run neutral kind of takes the O's preference out of it. So long as it is run neutral the O's aren't likely to have a preference. Saying that, I do believe they value defense highly. 3) And obviously, the Orioles, like many others, value up the middle defense more than corner defense.

That's fine. That's a take with the appropriate amount of subtlety. The silly rhetorical questions, "How can he learn to hit ML pitching in AAA?" devised to produce a foregone conclusion have no such subtlety.

Because the claim is he can't learn anything in AAA. That's a stupid claim- about Holliday or anyone else for that matter.

This has nothing to do with Holliday. I took issue with the idea that guys can't learn and improve at AAA. I'm not surprised you can't see the difference.

There are no mechanical aspects to hitting?

Exactly. It's such a moronic talking point. If you can't learn and improve in AAA, why does it even exist then?

Well, I for one am very happy that we have Burnes. And I'm glad Elias runs this organization and not the consensus of this board.

Frobby's always talking about signing for things in blood. LOL.

It was still too much.