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We really need this run if Tate is coming in the 8th. uggh

Damn you jinx....

Thanks.

Has Coloumbe ever explained his blue glove?

Having to bring in Tate in a 1-0 game goes to show us that the bullpen is short.

Yikes, that one scared me.

Now let's gets some runs for Bradish!

I don't know Bradish might be able to do everything. What an amazing start for him. Just living on the edge of strike zone and getting guys to chase.

Really bad non-send there. With two outs you have to push that.

Who's hot and who's not among prospects over the last ten days.

Well he's only seen 31 pitches in that zone so not a big sample size.

444 ft bomb. He's certainly starting to heat up with the weather and as he gets comfortable in AA. That walk rate is going to start going up as pitchers are not going to want to pitch to him. If they start challenging him that could be a reason to move him up. I still think they will put him on the Mayo plan and wait until late August to move him, but he may have something to say about that.

Unless Basallo is not challenged at all in AA, I think they will keep him there for most of the season. Partly because of the reason you stated with wanting see Hunt/Handley but also because they may just want to give him that solid AA season of at bats. Now, do I think Hunt/Handley block Basallo if they think he's no longer being challenged at AA, nope, they bring him up.

If a guy can hit breaking balls at his ankles for home runs, I don't know if that's a bad thing. I get what you are saying, but some guys have incredible plate coverage to include out of the zone. Those guys are scary because they can hurt you even on good pitches or pitches out of the zone. Now if his damage rate swinging at those is not good, then he needs to tighten that up, but there's nothing wrong with a guy who can crush balls out of the zone.

If Jeff Bagwell is in the HoF, then they really need to open it up to all of the steroid players. Can't allow one in just because he never admitted to it or got caught. Raffy was a sweet swinging left first baseman who issues with the Cubs was he just didn't hit for power. A few magic syringes later, Raffy became a 30 then a 40 home run hitter. Now I won't turn this into a steroid conversation, but I do agree with the folks that think the steroid guys belong in. I never would have said that in the past, but in the end, almost everyone great was doing steroids during the era including the pitchers. All of them got power and velocity jumps do to the 'roids and anyone that suggests they didn't have an effect are not looking at the obvious statistical gains. Maybe part of it is knowing very good players like Harold Baines are in the hall. Is there a team that would have preferred Baines over Palmeiro in their prime. Nope. Maybe just create a Steroids era wing or have a mention somewhere of the steroid era timeframe and let the people decide if they think the players did them or not. At the end of the day, Palmeiro and all of the steroid era stars provided a lot of fun to the fans. And as others have stated, players have been cheating for years to include greenies and performance enhancing drugs. Guys like Palmeiro and Bagwell, along with several others, SUDDENLY became power hitters and started putting up video game power numbers. But why is Bagwell in the hall and Palmeiro is not. The finger wag? I've been against the steroids guys getting in but I've changed my mind on the situation. If MLB is going to add in Negro Leagues as a major league for records, and allow other players into the hall that certainly should be questioned based on sudden power surges during the steroid era, then let them all into the hall. Well I guess I did turn this into a steroid post afterall. lol Back to Palmeiro, I liked him, but felt he came up small too often in high leverage situations with the Orioles. I remember him as a guy who seemed to hit a lot of home runs when the team was up or down a lot, but when I go back and look at his leverage numbers that was actually not true. It's funny how my memory of him and how I felt about him at the time was probably based off a few times that he didn't do well in key situations, but without having baseball reference or Baseball savant, my memory was burned in with that bias. Either way, count me in the camp that Palmeiro and his 500+ home runs and 3000+ hits belongs in the HoF.

See, no matter what @RZNJ says about you, you can learn! There's also something called "Favorites" and a favorite bar where you can keep these sites available for quick reference! Back to Westburg, part of the reason he's hit 5 of his homer to RF is that he allows the ball to travel well, but also because they pitch him away a lot. Clearly pitchers think they can get him out pitching down and away. In theory, they are right as his wOBAs are the lowest down and up away. But you better not go middle away because that's his happy oppo homer zone.

Right, like Holliday can learn to play center field!

Players do improve as well, and Cowser clearly developed better jumps and routes. I rarely undershoot a player's abilities, but I'm happy to see that Cowser has improved to the point that he's over achieved my evaluation. Though I never said he couldn't play CF, just that he'd be much better in the corners and he doesn't have the elite foot speed that teams typically want in CF.

Wait is this an attack on my post earlier this week, because I said no such thing. This is a gross mis-interpretation of my discussion post. Besides poster's like Webbrick, who is trashing the organization like its 2016? I'll wait.

I didn't think he was good fit there and may not be long term if he slows down, but he's made a believer out of me that he can play there now and in the near future.

Honestly, I'm glad he's gone. Sure, the guy throws hard, but all of his statcast data shows a lack of movement and we know he has a lack of not just command, but control.

Unfortunately, I have to agree that we've seen "less than 100% Hays" and he's not typically good. Hopefully it's just a bruise and it won't affect him too much, but I would not be surprised if he's not starting against Civale tonight. Seems like a great opportunity to start Stowers.

He very well may have to wait for an opportunity or he may get one and not let it go. The Orioles know that lefties play well in Camden Yards, though the Vlad homer would have been deep out of Camden as well, so that helps him as well. The way pitchers break, I have zero issues with Povich being the #6 or #7 starting candidate. He may have be like Irvin where he spends a year going back and forth between starting and relieving, but I do think he's eventually settle into a rotation spot.

From what I've seen from Povich in the minors and have been saying pretty consistently, is that he's not a command and control guy. The guy I saw yesterday is pretty much the guy is was in the minors. He does throw a lot of uncompetitive pitches that typically gets his pitch count up, but he also garners a lot o soft contact as an effectively wild kind of pitcher. His cutter and curveball yesterday had above average movement, giving up a bloop hit on the curveball and of course the home run to Vlad on the high outside cutter. The Blue Jays have a quality lineup, and he gave up some real soft contact. I think that's the most important thing to take out of this. We'd all like to see him throw more strikes, and definitely less uncompetitive pitches, but he's throwing 5 pitches up there (mostly 4) and clearly keeping batters off balanced. If Povich can improve his command a bit, he definitely has #3 type stuff even without the impressive fastball. Right now he's a #4/#5 type but that's ok. As for McDermott, he's a very similar guy but right-handed. I still think he might be a guy who could help in the pen this year. I'd love to see what he looks like in that role. Now he also is more of a mid 90-s guy vs upper 90s guy, but he has some wicked movement on his two breaking balls.

Thanks, and obviously, I agree. Everything in Cowser's metrics suggests he's going to breakout at some point once again. He's going to have a tough series like he just had, but so does every hitter. If it were me running out lineups, he's my everyday CF and moving to LF or RF when Mullins gets his 2-3 starts a week.