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After a one-game FCL warm-up, Max Wagner played his first full-season game last night at Aberdeen and homered, going 1 for 4. Wagner finished last year at Bowie and presumably will head back there soon.

3 IP, 1 ER, 4 H, 2 BB, 5 K’s yesterday, on 64 pitches, 36 strikes. Not an efficient outing. Chace pitched to two batters in the 4th inning, allowing a hit and a walk.

I’m sure there were several, as I hadn’t realized they gave a Silver Slugger for pitchers. Yovanni Gallardo was the most popular correct answer.

Fabian is on a nice little heater. After hitting .227/.325/.379 in April, in his first 5 games of May he’s hitting .381/.435/.952 with 4 homers. That’s raised his overall line to .264/.350/.517. His K rate hasn’t moved, with 7 K’s in 21 PA in May.

Even smart people occasionally make decisions that turn out badly in baseball.

He may be getting a little fatigued. I’m interested to see if he starts on Sunday, and if so, how he does. With the Monday off days, starters get 5 days rest most weeks except when they make a Tuesday start, in which case their next start typically is on Sunday on four days’ rest. Povich did that once already this season and fared well, but now he’s been logging a good number of innings and it will be more challenging. And facing the same team twice in a row isn’t easy.

A Bradfield-esque game today. Scored the winning run by hitting a double, stealing 3B and scoring on an overthrow. Havoc on the bases. Also, made a catch and threw out a runner at 2B trying to advance on the catch.

To my understanding, it is mesh but not tightly woven enough to block out the setting sun, so light gets through and bothers the batters. Most batter’s eyes are a solid wall.

I’d love to see my yearly post count over the last 15 years. I don’t think I slowed down much in the dark years. Of course my retirement in August 2022 was well-timed to coincide with the Orioles’ rise so my count has probably increased since then.

Right. Even if it’s AA, you still have to put a charge into it to clear a fence.

Other than the fact that it’s essentially impossible to do that. I do believe umpires are graded on accuracy and there is statistical evidence that they’ve improved significantly over the last 15 years or so. But they still miss 12% of true balls and 3% of true strikes, per Ump Scorecard.

2 for 3 with a homer and a walk in his first rehab game at Bowie tonight.

I just switched from the Nats broadcast to Melanie. Hard to tell which is more lifeless.

bosoxforlife: The Orioles situation is unlike anything I have seen in my long time of baseball watching. How would you handle? Trade the established major leaguers who aren’t great but are good or the untried youngsters who might turn into stars or bust? 2:48 Ben Clemens: It’s so crazy 2:48 Ben Clemens: I would be looking for stars in any trade I made 2:48 Ben Clemens: they’ve been smart about this, too 2:48 Ben Clemens: Corbin Burnes is the exact kind of player I’d be looking for 2:48 Ben Clemens: so for me, it’s more about what you can get than what you give up 2:49 Ben Clemens: There are downsides to each thing you trade away, like you said. But given how many core positions they already have locked down, you can play for upside in the remaining positions 2:49 Ben Clemens: they have seemingly 4 good options everywhere 2:49 Ben Clemens: might as well take some risk and try to get a high roll

This has been mentioned multiple times, including in its own thread.