HBT: BABIP in the Rodgers Centre Revisited

DocJJ, who tells all his patients.  “Let me give you the bad news first, please”! or ”It doesn’t look too good”.

He is a spry 75!   Not even old enough yet to run for President in the US. 

We really can’t afford to “wait a bit”. Those things (if they can even be done) need to happen now. For every day that passes, that’s one step closer for them to FA. And it decreases their interest in an extension.

Almost Jackson Holliday levels of futility 🤦‍♂️ What is with this organization and it's horrible drafting?!?   *sarcasm off

First off, nobody's talking about cutting Hays. The worst that'll happen is he gets sent down to AAA to work on things.  Second, guys in slumps do actually get DFA'd all the time if the slump lasts long enough.  The question is at what point does a slump become the new normal? Sucking eggs for 10 or 20 games is a slump. Hitting .209 / .270 / .332 over 95 games and 316 ABs wouldn't normally be considered a slump. Hays has been worse than Mateo over that period, and people here were rending garments over Jorge's pathetic offense last year. Since the third week of June last year Austin Hays has been worse offensively than Joey Rickard, Caleb Joseph, and even Austin Wynns were when they played for us. How long did their slumps last? 

Moises Chace, RHP, Orioles In Baltimore’s first international signing class under general manager Mike Elias and vice president of international scouting Koby Perez, the Orioles signed a group of intriguing pitchers. One of them was Chace, a 6-foot righthander from Venezuela who had reached 93 mph, paired it with a high-spin curveball and showed good pitchability for his age. Now a 20-year-old in High-A Aberdeen, Chace’s stuff has ticked up and he’s off to an excellent start with eight scoreless innings and a 15-2 K-BB mark.  He can run his fastball up to 96 mph with good carry, getting a lot of swing-and-miss on that pitch this season, along with a high-spin slider at 2,700-2,900 rpm. His most effective pitch has been a lively, tailing changeup with more than 10 mph of separation off his fastball that has piled up whiffs. In one at-bat against Nationals lefthanded-hitting outfielder Jared McKenzie, Chace fell behind 1-0 with a fastball, then threw three straight changeups with empty swings on each one. Chace struggled with his control last year—he walked 53 in 68 innings—but there’s a starter pitch mix here if he can continue throwing strikes the way he has in his first two starts.

1.  I don't. 2.  We are talking about a team playing out the string.  Think of some of the reclamation projects we've seen I Baltimore. 3. No idea, I was thinking more of a guarantee he'd not be down long enough.