Frobby

Well I’ve done that and if you look at pitch no. 87 of the June 11 game last year and compare it to pitch no. 13 of the April 11 game this year, you’ll clearly see that Adley’s framing of pitches on the high outside corner has slipped by 6.1% this season.

The Oroles could post a video of penguins in Antarctica and somebody would contort themselves into thinking it was foreshadowing a Gunnar extension. I’ve heard that if you play “Orioles Magic” backwards at a slow speed it faintly sounds like weeeevvvvvesiiiiiignedgggggunnnnnarrrrr…”

I think his framing has looked excellent, especially when Burnes has been on the mound.

Literally nobody tessed an extension. I have zero idea how anyone could have inferred that from a photo of a desk in the infield. If they did, that’s on them, not Rubenstein.

Day game tomorrow. Adley’s not going to catch both games, so they picked the middle one to rest him.

If he threw 3 innings in under 40 pitches, I’d be totally cool with that.

Yes, I wonder what his playing time would have looked like if he’d played in the AL in his 20’s.

I’m just reminding you there are worse alternatives. Everything you’ve said about Brown is fair enough, though I happen to like things like the Rutschman grounder to Witt observation. What I want in a TV PBP guy is: 1. A good voice. 2. The ability to convey that the game is interesting, even when it’s not. 3. A good rapport with the color guy and the ability to use questions to get the color guy to use their expert knowledge of the game and convey it to the audience. 4. Knowing when it’s appropriate to get a little excited. 5. Being well prepared and knowing stuff about both teams that most viewers don’t, and inserting that information at opportune times. I score Brown very high on all five criteria. Puns and cultural references, or the lack of them, aren’t on my list of what’s important.

If they pitch well.

Thought it would be good to have a thread tracking any big gaps between wOBA and xwOBA from time to time. At this early stage, I’d say only gaps of 50 point or more are really notable. That’s the case for: Cowser .539/.465 Rutschman .330/.385 Mullins .370/.320 Mateo .362/.303 Hays .100/.224 Urias .172/.232 It’s worth noting that Cowser would be awesome even at .465, and Hays and Urias would be awful even at .224 and .232. The team has a pretty typical mix of guys who’ve been hot or cold, and guys who’ve had good or bad wOBA “luck.” Overall, the picture is pretty darned good.

The Yankees won this preseason poll, and so far they’re off to the hottest start. Once again, every AL East team is currently over .500 and the division is 38-24 (.613) against the rest of MLB.

If I saw the O’s chasing a lot of pitches out of the zone, it would concern me. I haven’t noticed that. The team is 4th in MLB in runs per game and OPS+, so whatever the O’s are doing, it’s working well. It teams start trying to get them to swing at bad pitches, I expect the O’s will adjust and start walking more.

Jeez, tough crowd. I guess we’ll bring back Jim Hunter and his “modest three game hit streak.”

It’s amazing. Congrats to the Orioles on seeing his potential, and congrats to O’Hearn for making the adjustments necessary to improve. As a reminder, the O’s have an option on O’Hearn for 2025 at $7.5 mm.

Positioning doesn’t affect catch probability. It’s a function of hang time and distance.