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Yeah, I was looking through the organizational stats and saw he has to ABs yesterday. Must've missed that box score yesterday.

Really good arm who has struggled to get anyone out this year in AAA or the majors. Similar to Conner Greene but a former 1st rounder. Worth a look especially when all they needed to do was DFA Hartman for him. Saying that, I'm surprised Wade or Vasquez did not go first.

Willems is making his professional debut today with FCL Orange, starting at DH and batting 8th. Talk about easing your million dollar High Schooler into things.

Hernandez may want to hit DSL pitching before we start giving him positions in the states. Saying that it does appear Hernaiz is going to lose some playing time to Burns, who is only a year older than him. While being young for the league overall, Hernaiz didn't do a lot of special things so far. He'll still get opportunities for sure but his star has faded a bit.

Only downside last night was his misread of a ball that dropped in front of him. It was twilight and we don't know how much outfield he has played during that time in his career. He's actually bigger than I thought. Not Teter huge, but he's built a lot like Gunnar Henderson.

That's how I read it.

Arguing about whether Stewart or McKenna should be on the roster of this team right now is like passengers on the Titanic discussing whether the deck chairs or lounges should be brought in from the deck.

EVERY SINGLE PROSPECT that was in the major leagues have not improved this year. Other than Sulser, every single reliever went backwards. Again, I'm not saying it's all Holt's fault, I'm saying is we can forget the "secret sauce wizardy" that we were told Holt was bringing with him.

But they were sucking before they too that away.

Sure, there are some pitchers having nice season and wildcard pointed most of them out, but my question goes back to him, what did Holt do that made them successful? Who has improved because of Holt? Sulser is the only answer at the major league level. In the minors, Grayson Rodriguez has crazy talent. Did Bautista just grow into his body and finally harness his stuff or did Holt and or his pitching coaches do something? Rom, his command has always been really good and he can throw four pitches well, but with a 88-90 MPH fastball, he needs a changeup that moves right to left for right-handers at the major league level. When i watch him pitch he barely uses the changeup. WHY? I don't care if he gets hammered a bit for awhile, he needs to develop that changeup more because that's going to be a key to him having success in the big league long term.

No, Holt is the pitching coordinator for the entire organization. From what I hear, managers and coaches are told what to teach and pitches to use or work on. As for your last comment, for longtime major leaguers or veterans I agree, for developing pitchers I do not agree at all. Again, I'm not saying Holt is terrible, I'm saying that I haven't seen any marked improvements from someone. You know, someone suddenly using a Means career defining/changing changeup or a pitcher that says I'm completely different because of what I've learned with the Orioles. I'm also not happy that every single rookie pitching prospect failed this year at the major league level. Why did all of their command fall off? Why did none of them improve? Why did Scott, Fry and Tate all go backwards this year? Besides Sulser, who has improved?

Hey, you want to look at things through orange colored glasses that's up to you. So tell me, what has he done to help any of those pitchers and how many of them do you think will be impact guys in the major leagues?

His statcast info concerns me. He had very low EV in 2019 and has a very low EV now. Hard to have consistent success when you aren't hitting the ball hard that often.

THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ While there hasn't been a lot of talent to work from this year, when every one of your minor league prospects pitchers come up and fail, you have to start wondering what's going on. Meanwhile in the minors, besides Rodriguez who has a much talent as anyone in the minors, what pitchers have taken a big step forward? How good is he at identifying talent? Afterall, one of the few pitchers he helped jettison this spring was Zach Muckenhirm, a lefty with a mid-90s fastball that's pitching to a 1.45 ERA this year in AA for the White Sox. I see lefties like Wells, Lowther and Rom all with below average changeups even though they are the exact kind of pitchers that need a good changeup to have success at the major league level. Call me crazy, but I'm not sure i see what Holt has done for this organization so far that makes me thinks he's some difference maker.

No real surprises here other than Ryan Ripken found a way to stay employed. I'd take Majias-Bream over him due to his versatility at AAA. Kehe can now go focus on his mining career even though it was cool to have someone drafted from the Colorado School of Mines. Lewis is the guy you want if you need someone to beat up FCL pitching but he will always have that 442 foot home run in Delmarva to remember. Litscher and Zebron were guys who's velocity just never came. Erwin had a nice org career as a 23rd round draft pick.

Although my information from the FCL is spotty, I've heard he's the best prospect pitching there right now. Tell and lanky and already hitting mid-90s on a occasion, there is certainly hope for more velocity as he fills out.

It truly is a wonder that we will never understand. Saying that, Stevie had a good run. He gave us some fun memories.

Well, he's a more steadier defender than Martin and has more pop. But until he can learn to stay away from the slider away he's going to struggle offensively.

His Savant information shows him to have very low avg EV and has been slightly below average defensively in the outfield. He looks like he's struggled to hit good fastballs. While we only have small sample size, there's nothing in his numbers besides a high MAX EV that suggests he should be looked at. Saying that, if the Orioles wanted to give him a shot over the last month and half, why not?

Updated as of today..

They've been piggy backing all year and every level? Why would this be different?

I hope they start doing this with their priority prospects. This jumping positions to position has been ridiculous. You don't develop a future starting SS or 3B by playing him half the time there.

Not a fan of Mullins bunting with runner on 2nd and 3rd and one out. He needs to try and drive them in. We ended up scoring just that one run after Hays and Mancini failed. This is part of the reason why this team stinks. Just dumb baseball even from there good players.

I feel like that may be so deep, that only a reincarnated Confucius would be able to decipher this one.

Mateo is the exact kind of guy the orioles should be trying out. He has the tools to be very good player and has never really been given a major league opportunity to play every day until now. He's going to be a low OBP guy for sure, but his speed, power, and ability to play several positions could make him a very good utility guy if he doesn't work out at SS or 2B. He's definitely got plenty of arm for SS.