ShoelesJoe

It might be worth $500 million not to see Gunnar in pinstripes seven years from now.

Gunnar Henderson's splits through first 97 ABs of the season: Home -- .326 / .385 / .630 Away -- .294 / .362 / .667 Vs. LH -- .324 / .395 / .622 Vs. RH -- .300 / .358 / .667

10 Day IL.

Serious question -- how does a pitcher warm up in the bullpen for five or so minutes, then warm up on the mound for another minute, and once the batter steps into the box throw pitch after pitch after pitch nowhere near the strike zone? One of Ramirez' pitches actually hit grass fifteen feet in front of home plate, and may have been the wildest pitch I've seen in a decade. How does that happen?

You'd have to give me the name of the reliever before I could answer that question. If the guy is prime Mariano or Dennis Eckersley (or 2023 Félix Bautista) then I'd make that trade. But who's that guy right now?

2 HRs and 6 RBI tonight.

They appear to be seeing the change up out of his hand.

Santander!

Adley!

Nights like this make me wish we had more RH impact bats on the team. On a related note Coby Mayo hit his 6th HR in the first inning tonight.

Mullins lost the game by popping up with one out and the bases loaded on the first pitch he saw after the pitcher had walked the previous two batters. Akin lost it by throwing batting practice in the middle of a tight game. The Orioles lost it by being the second best team on the field last night.

We stole two of the three games against KC when they came to Baltimore two weeks ago, and everybody knows it. My guess is they'll have a chip on their shoulder about that. They out-hit us and out-homered us in our own park, and an unlucky bounce here or there and we could have been swept. I know the Brewers blew us out two of three, but IMO the Royals are the best team we've face so far. I'm expecting to lose a couple in KC but wouldn't be surprised if we lost all three.

First off, nobody's talking about cutting Hays. The worst that'll happen is he gets sent down to AAA to work on things. Second, guys in slumps do actually get DFA'd all the time if the slump lasts long enough. The question is at what point does a slump become the new normal? Sucking eggs for 10 or 20 games is a slump. Hitting .209 / .270 / .332 over 95 games and 316 ABs wouldn't normally be considered a slump. Hays has been worse than Mateo over that period, and people here were rending garments over Jorge's pathetic offense last year. Since the third week of June last year Austin Hays has been worse offensively than Joey Rickard, Caleb Joseph, and even Austin Wynns were when they played for us. How long did their slumps last?

If Gunnar had hit .204 / .268 / .332 over 81 games and 265 ABs he'd have been sent down, and not a single person here would have objected.

Hays was 0-2 on Wednesday, and is 1-28 in April with 1BB and 6Ks. In his last 81 games and 265 AB he's at .204 / .268 / .332. People are asking if Hays is the new Ryan McKenna, but I don't know if McKenna was ever this bad at the plate for that amount of time.