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He did not look trimmer to me at all. I was disappointed to seeing him show back up the same way as last year, but it appears that's just going to be his body type and that will limit him as he gets older.

Every line drive hit came with either two strikes or behind in the count (0-1). The last hit was an absolute beautiful LD oppo single on 1-2 (RHP). Probably was thinking offspeed but kept back and laced into LF. Not a ton of 19 year olds can do that.

In everyone of those hits Holliday had either two strikes and/or was behind in the count and lindrived them all. The last hit was really impressive. Beautiful LD oppo single on 1-2 (RHP). Probably was thinking offspeed but kept back and laced into LF. Not many young men can do that.

Willems had two hits on opening day but were both poor defensive play hits vs hitting the ball well. This was a smoked HR showing nice pull power.

Rocket home run there by Mayo. I may have to go back and see if they gave an EV during the broadcast.

Really nice oppo line drive there by Preito. Nice to see him have a nice night.

I don't know how far he hit the one yesterday, but his Thursday homer was 454 according to the broadcasters. A mammoth blast indeed. Only two home runs have been hit farter in the majors this year, but 30 different players hit at least one home run that distance last year and 51 different players in 2021. Now, he's only 18-years old so I could probably move his future raw power to 80, but again, 80s are used very rarely because it's supposed to be the absolute best of the best all-time. In other words, Arron Judge would get an 80 game power ranking for setting the record last year, afterall, the man set the legitimate home run record of all of MLB. It's pretty clear that Basallo has very special raw power that he's already tapping into game wise this year, but it's very early in the season and team's have not made adjustments to him yet. He's an exciting young man to watch this year for sure.

It is an interesting scale but it does make some sense. I mean, if they're being graded a 20 in something, that's still better than most humans since they are at least good at baseball. Here's the real background from a fangraph article: "The invention of the scale is credited to Branch Rickey and whether he intended it or not, it mirrors various scientific scales. 50 is major league average, then each 10 point increment represents a standard deviation better or worse than average. In a normal distribution, three standard deviations in either direction should include 99.7% of your sample, so that’s why the scale is 20 to 80 rather than 0 and 100. That said, the distribution of tools isn’t a normal curve for every tool, but is somewhere close to that for most."

Neither could we. This was the line to get food from the vendors outside of Pickles. Couldn't get in afterwards either so we walked down to Pickett's Brewery for an after "party!"

Let me watch him a few more times before I give out any comps. McDermott's issues have never been quality of stuff, it's just command and consistency. Let's hope he's putting it together because he's a major league caliber arm for sure.

A fan died?

Hyde with garbage bullpen management. 3 RHB coming up and he has no faith in Baker? Perez did his job in 7th. Baker barely warmed because he didn't get up until the Yankkles had two hits. Garbage.

Bunch of righted coming up and you run Perez back out there with no one warming up. Baker now warming but awful managing by Hyde.

Perez coming out for 8th. No one warming.

I assume it was a strike then.

Mountcastle has been on this team way too long to step into the box before country boy finished up.

Thanks, can't see that from the game.

Thats the way for Adley to break his 1 for his last 23 since starting the year 6 for 6.

Has this team stranded an inherited runner this season. Gashouse gang.

Absolutely. Cordero is not very good but Kremer is not looking like the guy from the 2nd half of last year.

Absolutely. Cordero is not very good but Kremer is not looking like the gut from the 2nd half of last year.

I'll be honest, I'd rather Stowers be in AAA and Cordero collecting dust if this was the plan for Stowers all along.

Yeah, a real crud effort by Kremer. Not everyone can handle big gamed or days.

Almost 100% he was just because that's the way it always seems to happen to the Orioles. Just a piss poor job by Kremer. Walked him then gave up thr 3 run bomb.

Kremer coming up small. Franchise Cordero? Embarrassing