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He is certainly not a graceful runner tonight.

Holy snikees this Bulls defense is terrible.

McDermott is making a case so far that he's too good for the minors too.

What a bum, hit a ball 103.8 MPH right at the right fielder!

Imagine AAA pitchers that have to face this lineup? Then you have this clown show of a defense behind you and man, these guys are not going to want to pitch against the Tides.

109.3 and 430 feet. I'd say he got that one pretty well barreled up!

The Tides are looking exactly like a team full of hitters too good for AAA.

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I imagine Carter is getting the Anthony Servideo treatment. Sink or swim in AA at his age. Maybe he'll be one of those guys that hits better when pitchers have more command are around the plate more? I was not impressed at all by him last year, in any facet of his game. But this year is a new year.

This lack of velocity is what shut him down last year after trying to start back up. Tate does not have the stuff to get away with a 90.4 MPH fastball. If that doesn't come back, and it would be surprising if it did at this point, he'll be back in Norfolk before May.

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I will say, while I think he has a "playbook" that tells him and his coaches who is best in certain situations, I do think Hyde makes those calls during games. I don't want to take away from what Hyde does as manager because I believe he most likely goes with the SIGBOT lineups. I do think he has a lot of "final" say in a lot of decisions and of course, his ability to manage his clubhouse is outstanding.

This Tides team is going to be an exciting team to watch for sure. Prospects throughout the lineup for the most part.

This all makes sense in the modern era and why the "SIGBOT" lineups are going to be used more times than not. I still would like to know how Aguilar broke the system and got starts ahead of Stowers in 2022? I also think it's a bit overused at times. I think using these swing profiles is how players like Frazier and Kemp are over utilized/valued at times.

That's fine. I could be wrong, but that was my interpretation. I guess it did help them win 101 games no matter how weird a lineup it kept spitting out. If Hyde is really making most of the calls on lineups, he hates himself some Kyle Stowers. Between Stowers, Ortiz and Cowser to a lesser extent, he's not afraid to bury prospects and he absolutely goes on platoon advantages based off pitchers, not hitters as he never batted Stowers against lefties despite his success against them in the minors. In fact, I want to blame the SIGBOT computer because I don't want to think Hyde really doesn't understand that buying prospects and playing Adam Frazier, Rougned Odor and God help us all, Jesús Aguilar were not good ideas at all.

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The fact that Haskin never made a major league spring training debut despite lower level outfielders getting playing time tells me he was not fully healthy.

All indications this spring is that they've seen him at 1B and don't feel he will be able to become playable there at the major league level in anything but an emergency.

Pretty good indication they are not planning to postpone.

I'm hoping the Orioles do this sooner than later one way or the other.

I still think "Lift off" was brought back down when JA gave him his miniscule budget. This one was all on him. I mean, it's not the end of the world, and he'll learn from it, but yeah, it was a mis-step no doubt.

Right, we've all known it's "Hyde's final decision" but he's not going against his robo guidance. He's just making sure everyone is healthy before putting the SIGBOT lineup into effect. Hyde basically said the same thing.

That's my take as well on he Holliday situation. I agree though, it was uncharacteristically poor job of PR by Elias.