Tony-OH

After this season, when I assume all the hitting strategy/coaches are sent back to their jobs of coaching little leaguers swing with an upper cut swing, I'm going to to do a little happy dance. This team is not even fun to watch. Even when they win, most of the time they are failing badly. They never have good team PAs. They all swing from their heals while trying to hit home runs. What a complete an utter failure of philosophy.

Sure you can throw him fastballs. Get him to two strikes with changeups off the plate, then throw one at his eyes that he's swing through. Pitchers should be fined for throwing him a fastball over the plate.

Well, that should quiet down an excited crowd. Welcome back to Camdan Yards to see the biggest choking team that you will see with a runner on 3rd. Doesn't matter if 0, 1 or 2 outs, they will absolutely choke. they'll K, popup, or ground out weakly. This team has no team approach. Santander, who will end the worse 40-home run guy in the history of the game swing through a slightly high 92 MPH fastball then swings and misses at an up in 90 MPH cutter that a single-A hitter wouldn't swing at. Then here comes Mr. Rookie of the year favorite, swinging at a changeup a foot and half off the strike zone twice, before getting blown away by 93 MPH fastball at his neck (ball 7 that he saw. And don't worry, Mullins will be happy to pop up to the 2B to end the inning.

Just like yesterday, first three get on, then absolutely ridiculousness of ineptitude.

Swear to God if Cowser K's too I'm going to lose my crap!

The sad part this is true.

Garbage PA by Santander there.

C'mon Santander, can't miss 92 up!

Nice O' Hearn.. We need him to get hot!!!

They really need Burnes to figure this out, because he's become a liability to the this team when he's supposed to be the ace.

And that is why he's not an ace. He never really dominates. Now he's not even that the 3rd starter guy. Watch the Orioles get him back tied and he gives up the lead right away. This is who he has been.

That's the way to get the offense going Gunnar! Going to need it.

Rivera should not be starting of Mayo in any possible way.

Right now, I don't even want to see Burnes on the mound. Never seen a guy comes up so small when his team needs him. He's just not "the" guy. To come out on a perfectly beautiful day and allow two runs to the White Sox in the first inning is absolutely embarrassing. I mean, I know he's not trying to suck, but does anyone trust him at all? This is the White Sox!!! lol

He shouldn't, because every garbage start he puts out there is costing him 10s of million of dollars.

Burnes needs to start questioning his own heart and ability when the White Sox get him for two in the first inning. Embarrasing.

2-2, misses by a foot and half outside. Nice A ball control there. Then comes back with the same pitch outside. Garbage.

Ah, I see Burnes has given up a run against the vaunted Chicago White Sox offense.

A little bit of both. O'Ferrall is a legitimate defensive SS prospect who controlled the strike zone even if he did not impact that baseball much. That could be his downfall, but I'm going to give him a bit of a mulligan until next season. On top of it all, who should be above him? Not a ton behind him to get super psyched over. It's either guys low in the system with promise, under performing hitters, defensive liabilities, or pitchers that have some promise, but don't scream out I'm going to be a successful starter.

Coby is the new #1 prospect in the or with the promotion of Holliday. Will he be able to hold off Basallo by the end of the year?

Last one with Holliday and Povich.

Yes, he on the 7-day IL once again. He had a hamstring injury earlier in the year and was taken out after line drive single into the outfield so perhaps he tweaked it again? It was hard to say because he was standing there at first base talking to the first base coach and then they pinch ran for him. He had never played more than 33-games in a season until this year when he played 54 games in a row before getting hurt. Unfortunately he's just one of those fragile guys. Hopefully it's nothing serious and will be back soon. He was becoming interesting.

I just don't get why Law and other say this. Who is this guy with big time swing and miss that they sprinkled their hitting fairy dust on and became a good major league hitter?

Westburg was always a highly rated prospect and if not for his somewhat slow start to the COVID shortened 2020 season (Hard to say .317/.432/.517/.949 is slow), he might have played his way into the true first round. As for Honeycutt, he's certainly a high risk, high reward guy with a lot of miss in his swing. Saying that, I'm not going to read too much into a guy who got started up late due to signing on the last day and then went straight to the Carolina League. While I've spoken before about my lack of confidence that the Orioles have been able to develop toolsy hitters without a lot of success in College (Watson, Rhodes, Carter Young, and Fabian to a degree say hello), I think we have to give him an entire off seaosn to make adjustments. Now, if he shows back up next year and has a high K rate and not a lot of pop of on base ability in Aberdeen next year, I'll start to have concerns. Right now I would say his swing and miss is certainly too high when facing pitching that should not create that kind of miss consistently. But I also don't know how long it takes him to find his timing. Some guys take longer, so we'll have a better idea next year after a full offseason and spring training.

Absolutely everything this team needed. An ace start that only needed two relieves to finish off the game. Eflin is the man.