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They are not going to make the big deal they made about his arrival, give out 15,000 t-shirts to fans with his picture on it, then send him down 9 days later because he looks completely lost. It's just not going to happen. Cowser and Stowers struggled last year and earned their demotion, but Holliday's the top-rated prospect in the game and is going to get more leeway before anything happens. I do think they'll start platooning him until he heats up, and if we reach May and he's 2 for 50, I would be shocked if they kept him up. There will also be a difference between struggles on the West Coast when no one is watching and struggles at home against the Yankees. That is where the rubber would meet the road, I think.

Sounds like people think he's unlikely to start against Ragans today. Are the O's at the point where they are platooning him? If so, the rest of the road trip isn't going to tell us much, facing 3 out of 5 lefty starters. At this point, if he isn't starting, he isn't coming into the game, since you would never pinch hit him or have him as a defensive replacement. If we are backing off on the lefty-lefty matchups, I could see Tony's May 1st date as the earliest he'd get to 50 at bats.

Santander does not get a long-term deal from us with the talent in the pipeline. Not only that, our long-term contract priorities are Adley/Gunnar/Holliday/GrayRod/Bradish/other young talent TBD, not Santander. A 3 or 4 year contract would could create a logjam both roster-wise and financially.

Thanks for the catch. Then take what I said and move it to Saturday. It's the Milkman Show tonight.

Kevin Brown wrote that one in January, but it was right on time last night.

Tonight we face DL Hall, a lefty.

Austin Hays, at the very least, is a solid 4th outfielder on this team, able to play any outfield position, with a major league track record. He's not going to hit below .100. I hope he's in the lineup tonight... in place of O'Hearn. On a different note, Kevin Brown's "HOLY COWSER!!!" exclamation on the 10th inning shot is up there with Gary Thorne's "Trumbo BUMBOOOOOOOOO" among favorite home run calls of the last 10 years.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2002/05/26/batista-keeps-faith-and-quirks-with-os/ What a quirky fellow - used to stagger around at 3B after the first pitch of every game to catch an imaginary pop-up from God. “If I believe in Jesus Christ more than the pitcher, I’m going to have a base hit,” he said. “If he believes more, he’s going to strike me out.” I always loved the quote referenced above. I used to sit at games, watch him strike out and bat below .250, and think "Man, there sure are a lot of uber-religious pitchers facing Tony Bautista."

I mean, I've seen mock drafts suggesting my football team may draft a guy named Kool-Aid McKinstry, so it could be weirder. Or are you saying in a couple of years he'd be named Kool-Ayd?

Hope Kemp didn't buy any green bananas.

Maybe the Buck Britton call-up announcement video can become a Ken Burns documentary that takes five days to film and gives us an extra year of control over Holliday.

Can either you or DirtyBird say what you'd do with Mullins and Hays? I am assuming you're releasing Urias and Mateo? I'm not arguing for the status quo, by the way. I'm just wondering what the people who want to blow it up completely after a week and a half see as the moves to be made.

Say that to 2023 Colton Cowser and Kyle Stowers.

Adam Frazier is the Kevin Bacon of the Hangout message board. Regardless of the topic being discussed, you're never more than six steps (at most) from talking about ol' number 12.

Well, if anyone arrived at noon for a game that ended at 8:40, I don't know that they got their money's worth, but that's a great win.