Malike

He earned another start for sure, but I'm not going to get overly excited about a 34-year-old with 120 ML innings pitched in a 17-year career. He was awesome today and fun to watch, though.

I wish Means was throwing well, but I think we look back more fondly on him because he was the best pitcher we had on a terrible team. Even in his best seasons his FIP was mid 4's. He never really walked people and has a career 7.5K/9 and 1.7HR/9. He was our Ace on a terrible team, but he was never a top pitcher by the numbers.

This thread should never be used until there is a final score, and the Yankees lose.

The 1987 Orioles did it in 6 straight games but I'm too lazy to look them up. Probably going to be stuck at 5 with the way KC pitches and that ballpark.

This was a pretty funny tweet from before the game today.

We all have to eat crow from time to time. Be a good sport!

Hey now, this thread is about how Hyde is killing this team. Go read the game thread, he lost us this game by taking Suarez out. THIS LOSS IS ON HYDE!!!!!

Never fear, the Royals yield the least amount of runs in MLB and we all know good pitching beats good hitting. Enjoy lamenting all weekend!

Please stop with the hyperbole. They got everything they could have out of Suarez. You don't get greedy. Dude has a 6 ERA starting at Norfolk and he was losing it.

What an incredibly embarrassing play. 1st to home on a single.

Gunnar seems to be doing okay. The only time he's leading off is the first AB of the game. With as productive as the bottom half has been at getting on base he's getting lots of opportunities with RISP.

Yeah, I don't think anyone who has watched all of his games would say he's +3 OAA as of now.

The whole comment stemmed from someone on the broadcast saying Beltre was an underrated 3B and Ripken then made his comment stating he wasn't and then all hell broke loose. It sort of feels like the people who despise Mussina for leaving for NYY after he gave the team 1 team friendly deal then wanted market value but Angelos wasn't paying 10M a year for a pitcher so he walked. I don't hate Mussina for that, he would have been a lifetime Oriole if they weren't cheap.

Gotta play him every day except against the really good LHP. I'm not worried about his bat and he needs to learn to play defense. That clanger off his glove that would have been an easy DP cost the team a run but at least he's slowly starting to put something on his throws, they weren't rainbows tonight. Baby (bird) steps.

Yeah which is why I said and he said that it's not really possible to compare players from different era's. We all know Brooks was one of the best fielding 3B of all time and it doesn't take any defensive stats to back that up, just like it doesn't take any defensive stats to back up that Jeter was awful.