Sorry, I deleted the Grayson question because I saw it was being discussed in the Extension Priority thread and SG had mentioned he wasn't talking about pre-arb players here. But I wasn't fast enough for you guys.
This is why I actually am a bit concerned, not for career prognosis but for his performance this year and a potential need to send him back down at some point.
Not all slumps are created equal and the plate skills have been really bad so far.
The managerial move that most surprised me today was Baldelli pulling Lopez, their team ace who was carving the O's up, after 87 pitches instead of sending him out for the 7th. Okert promptly let the O's back in the game with the Santander HR.
Also on the power prowess front, the O's have six players with 4+ HRs.
The only other teams with more than two are the Dodgers with four (Betts, Teoscar, Muncy, Ohtani) and Astros with three (Altuve, Tucker, Alvarez).
I don't understand it because they set up the premise like "Joe Maddon had a hard time joining our firm because he could only talk about baseball!!" but then all the actual footage of Maddon in the commercial is just him sitting around saying generic not specifically basebally phrases.