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It probably was the easiest move for Elias to make. DFA the 40th man on the 40 man. We lost a MLB starting level OF. Call up our closest to the MLB OF prospect. Just finish out the road trip without losing anyone else. Get back home and reassess. We have a big series versus the Yankees coming up and I would not be surprised if we do use matchups to more than we would other games.

Suarez definitely has a plan up there. Changes if the ball is moving in or out. Changes speeds and eye level. He’s also a good weapon to ride right now because the league is essentially getting a first look at him.

An 8 lefty lineup, and with all that talent. I don’t think we got to 8 lefties even with Hicks. Maybe we did with Lester at 3B? Somewhere Bud Norris is happy he’s retired with all the LHH. Just like with the pitching staff and their health, things will work themselves out or some players will have to go to AAA. I think Holliday gets till the Yankees series. Or maybe we just bench him if he’s not hitting for those games. Those are big games.

Suárez has a nasty pitch mix going right now. He’s getting a ton of horizontal movement arm side on his fastball. A ton of horizontal movement arm side on his Change Up then he can throw the cutter for movement to glove side. Enjoy the ride. Great for Suárez and the team. It’s a good problem to have. We could see Akin/Tate optioned with Ramirez/Baumann DFA’d if be. Wells also can be optioned. In the next 10-14 days we could see, Bradish up. Tate to AAA. Means up. Akin to AAA. Wells up. Ramirez DFA SP - Burnes, GR, Bradish, Kremer, Suarez BP - Kimbrel, Cano, Coloumbe, Webb, Baumann, Wells, Irvin, Means If everyone is healthy. We may have to see this because of options.

Exactly. It also shows that Elias can get away from a platoon advantage to play talent. He could’ve easily just added McKenna back to this team. Kjerstad get his chance. No need for anyone to hate outrage over that anymore. I’m sure Banelos is loving this mlb time and pay. Plus the food per diem each day.

We’re also all the way on the west coast. Banuelos was probably already with the team. With Mountcastle out with a sore knee we could see Kjerstad or Stowers. I think they keep Norby off of the 40 man until they have to.

Norby or Burdick are the best fits to compliments the LHH OFs, but they aren’t on the 40 man. So that’s an issue. I don’t know where Stowers or Kjerstad fit.

If that’s the case then we will keep Stowers and Norby as role players for next year’s team and deal prospects further from the MLB team. Prospects from the tier of Fabian, Wagner, and Horvath.

I’m sure they’re probably looking at Ethan Holliday videos like we’d be doing and what they’re going to get back for Kopech/Roberts at the deadline. All things considered, I think got back a pretty good package for Cease, and with Bradish “ok” we have enough to get us to the deadline to reevaluate things. It’s always better to acquire the hot hand reliever given their volatility. I do think Elias will pull the trigger on a get us over the hump type move this year. Right now, the needs look like RH SU man, Game 4 starter, 2nd LH SU man. In that order.

In two weeks, we could have Bradish in the rotation, with Wells and Suarez in the bullpen.

I’ve always liked that stadium. Our batters to do. The field looks really similar to OPACY. Maybe it’s the same type of grass? Adley sure liked it on that grand slam. Go O’s. 4-2 versus that team is good. I like that Butnes and Grayson are split up right now between different series. We get one of our horses going watch series. Huge advantage.

44 to 58 pitches. I think he gets two more starts down there. They’ll increase him another 10 each outing. Get him to that 75-80 range. That’s what Hyde said the goal was for the pitchers coming out of ST, 75 pitches.

At what point do our bats start to get a little added bump in value given the success of our recent hitting prospects? Also, we’ll start to build a playoff bullpen at the deadline. It’s better to start the year with some flexibility so that we can rotate fresh arms. Remember that it took Cole Ragans for Texas to get Chapman last year.

Burnes = Mussina If you wanted the O’s to extend Mussina, then you kind of have to want them to extend Burnes. In our current situation we can add Mayo to the IF mix to help offset Gunnar. We can replace Adley with Basallo.