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I heard he worked out with Austin Hays and Chris Davis in the offseason. The slash line is bad, but he’s only struck out 8 times in 36 PA, and he’s walked 7 times. So, I’m chalking this up to some bad BABIP luck and maybe just some trouble squaring up the baseball early in the year. It should straighten out.

Rubenstein didn’t do anything. Anyone who thought that is the type of person who thinks if a pretty girl says hello to them they’ll accept a marriage proposal.

If he starts hitting, he won’t be batting 9th.

I’ve looked at it.

You can slice and dice last year several different ways, but I view this year as a different animal. I think you’d be hard pressed to find any stretch of 44 PA in Hays’ career where he had a .210 OPS.

Yes, but it would have been a tougher call.

Baserunning is worth at best about 0.5 WAR.

I’d take the under, and I probably would have said that the day he got called up. ZiPS had him at 2.7 before the season began, and now has him at 2.2 the rest of the way (he’s at -0.2 now, so the updated full season projection would be 2.0). And I’d be perfectly fine with a 2 WAR season from a 20-year old rookie. Witt had a 2.4 rookie year at 21, and look at him now.

He was a minor league free agent after the 2022 season, so it’s likely he wouldn’t be with our organization now even if we hadn’t traded him.

I’d rather see him promoted to Bowie midseason if he’s performing well. No point in getting ahead of ourselves though. It’s been 8 games.

Yeah, I’d forgotten about the FA ramifications of this.

Obviously they weren’t going to hit at that level, but this slump is surprising.

It’s a little hard to tell how 9k new flex memberships translates into tickets. There are $600, $1200 and $2500 packages. I assume most are at the lower level. That would buy you about 20 tickets, the higher levels 40 and 83 tickets, at $30 each (estimate, since you can buy any level of seats). I’m just going to make a rough guess that it’s 300,000 tickets. But, how many people are buying these who previously went to a bunch of games as a walk-up buyer? How many switched from having a fixed ticket plan to a flex plan? I’m guessing it’s a decent chunk in each of those categories.

This should be merged into the thread in the minor league forum. https://forum.orioleshangout.com/topic/51777-seth-johnson-2024/#comment-3104271