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  1. I didn't realize his curveball was that good. He threw a lot of great ones of both the ball-to-strike and strike-to-ball variety.
  2. Haven't seen an Oriole pitch like this since Mussina.
  3. I at least understood the rationale behind the Frazier signing (raising the floor while preserving some service time for prospects who may or may not have been ready), but this one I don't get. I felt like we could go into the season with our current roster, using Nevin for a few weeks vs lefties, and that would've been fine. Having Kemp on a MLB deal, presumably for the entire year, doesn't make much sense to me, with Mateo and Urias around. Wonder if there's a trade coming.
  4. There's an article today from Britt Ghiroli about MLB interpreters: https://theathletic.com/5362145/2024/03/22/mlb-language-interpreters-ippei-mizuhura-shohei-ohtani/ They do a lot more than translate. Ippei reportedly made $300-500k/year which from what I can tell is way more than other interpreters, and it sounds like he's basically a personal assistant. So I can imagine he has access to bank accounts. Whether typical bank security would let him do that straightup, I don't really know, but could Ippei have had all the bank info he needed to pull off a scam, maybe.
  5. I think that was a different situation because he was up in September the year before, so he'd already accumulated a month of service time. He'd have to be down for a month and a half to get the extra year, not two weeks.
  6. Honestly I am fine with this decision because I don't think Holliday is quite there yet vs LHP, and you don't lose a year of service time for a few weeks of someone who might not be your best option every day. I also do think Elias wasn't entirely lying, and if Holliday was mashing lefties then he could've made the team. He was fighting Urias for the starting job and because of the service time situation, he had a high bar to clear and had to show he's not just better than Urias, but significantly better. And right now on a day vs a lefty, I don't think Holliday has proven himself that much better than Urias yet.
  7. The cutoff is that if he's down long enough that the team would get the extra year, then he doesn't qualify for the pick.
  8. Mansolino on Mayo's defense a couple weeks ago from https://www.masnsports.com/blog/mansolino-talks-about-holliday-defense-at-second-and-mayo-at-third : That to me sounds like they don't think he's ready with the glove yet, or at least will use that as a reason to keep him in AAA.
  9. I think they can matter but not at face value. Veteran pitchers are going to be tuning their pitches more than trying to get guys out. But young players without a guaranteed spot will at least be trying to showcase their skills and make the team. Stowers' 7 HRs are somewhat relevant in my eyes. That is such an outlier number that I imagine it has to move the needle a bit, especially with two in the last game being against a big league veteran. I don't put much stock in Jackson Holliday's spring training OPS. He got a gift triple, and his one success vs a lefty was against the third fastball in a row from one of said veteran pitchers who was probably just working on his fastball that inning, so I think it's probably a bit inflated. Though for all I know, he got unlucky in the ABs that didn't make the news. I imagine the front office has access to more useful numbers than what we see, taking into account the pitchers they faced, the set of pitches they faced, etc. Those numbers are more likely to be used to make a roster decision.
  10. Do they show splits in Stuff+ between when he first came over and later/in the playoffs? Because he certainly looked like a different pitcher later on. Curious if these metrics saw it that way too.
  11. Okay, I found this: https://www.mlb.com/news/prospect-performance-incentive-ppi-eligible-players So the threshold is that he needs the earn that full year of service time naturally. He doesn't have to be up on opening day but he also can't be down long enough to normally avoid the full year of service time. So if he starts in the minors but Urias gets injured two weeks in and he comes up then, it's still fine.
  12. Is this true? I thought the downside is that if they win ROY then they get the full year of service time regardless of when they're called up. I haven't read anything in articles about that affecting the draft pick, though the later they come up, the less likely they are to win ROY. I'm not entirely convinced he's ready yet in his 22 PA. His numbers look good now, but he got a gift triple yesterday and before the game, his OPS was under .700. I see it as a 50-50 whether he makes the team and it'll become more evident once we have a couple more weeks of results to look at.
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