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They’re not as good as their record, for sure. But their pitching is quite good so long as they don’t sustain any more significant injuries for a while. It would be nice to think that Judge, Rizzo and Torres have totally lost it. But I doubt it.

22,965 for the Friday night game with Oakland. That’s a bit lower than the third Friday night of last year, which came a little later in the Spring (May 12) against Pittsburgh (and drew 25,682). I’d imagine that Pittsburgh generally is a bigger draw in Baltimore than Oakland is, since it’s a pretty easy drive for Pirate fans who want to visit Camden Yards. I’m guessing tonight’s bobblehead game will draw well. The rest of the comparable Pirate series was 22 k and 36 k (on Mothers’ Day).

Though I criticized that play last night, overall he’s looked good in the field this year. 3 of the 4 defensive metrics I look at have him in positive territory: 2 OAA, 1.3 UZR, 1 Rdrs, -2 Rtot. He’s faster than Hays and covers more ground. Hays catches anything within diving range and has great body control, but many of those balls he dives for would be caught without diving by a faster outfielder or one who gets better jumps. Not that I’m complaining about Hays, who was a deserving Gold Glove nominee last year.

I wasn’t aiming my comment directly at you. More of a general observation about many posters.

That’s irrelevant. He’s far worse than Brooks The Great. That’s what matters.

3rd rehab start, 2nd in AAA. People are always obsessing about velocity. I’m easily just as interested, if not more, in whether a pitcher has command of his various pitches and can mix them up enough to keep hitters off balance. I’m not saying velocity is unimportant, but being at ones top velocity is neither necessary nor sufficient to succeed for most pitchers.

The scale is: 1 star: 91-95% 2 star: 76-90 3 star: 51-75% 4 star: 26-51% 5 star: 0-25% So, Statcast had that as a 2 star catch, at 85%. I said I thought the odds were more like 50/50, so either 3 star or 4 star . But none of the replays I’ve seen really show McKenna’s supposedly bad jump, so it’s a little hard to say.

Let’s see how Irvin pitches tonight. If he throws a stinker, I’m going with Bradish. If he throws a good game, then I need to think about it harder.

No, he had two VERY GOOD outings out of three. 4/16: 3 IP 1 H 0 R 0 BB 4 K’s 4/21: 3.1 IP, 4 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 4 K’s 4/26; 5.0 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K’s And tell me, why would a 16-9 team be pushing the panic button?

Please tell me you’re kidding.

More accurately, they were 7-3 in the games Holliday played in. They also went 2-1 in games he didn’t play while he was with the club. Too many “what if’s” to know what happens if Holliday is on the club for that game. I am NOT going to assume that Santander makes that catch. And who knows, maybe Holliday makes a crucial error earlier in the game. There’s no way to know.

Looks like the optimists will win this one! Only 18% said he’d return before June 1.

15 sliders at 86.3 (84.5 - 88.0). 14 curves at 82.8 (81.1 - 84.8). 6 change ups at 91.5 (90.6 - 92.4) Slider and curve down about 2 mph. The sinker was very effective, at 50% CSW%.

In case anyone is a glutton for punishment, here's the Toro double over McKenna's head. My main reaction watching it isn't "McKenna should have caught that." It's "what a crappy two-strike pitch." Abraham Toro's RBI double ties the game | 04/26/2024 | MLB.com

The thing I despised about Hunter was he always acted as if he knew as much about the nuances of baseball as the former player color commentators. He wouldn’t ask them useful questions to try to draw on their knowledge. He’d make declarative statements and then invite them to agree to show how knowledgeable he was. And of course Jim Palmer would find some polite way to say: “You don’t know what you’re talking about and the real explanation is X.”