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MASN has BA's list in this article: https://www.masnsports.com/steve-melewski/2021/10/a-look-at-baseball-americas-os-top-10-list.html 1. Adley Rutschman 2. Grayson Rodriguez 3. DL Hall 4. Gunnar Henderson 5. Colton Cowser 6. Jordan Westburg 7. Kyle Stowers 8. Heston Kjerstad 9. Kyle Bradish 10. Coby Mayo

Another solid outing for Pinto: 5 IP, 3 H, 2 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 8 SO Numbers at Delmarva so far: 1.75 ERA, 25.2 IP, 14 H, 0 HR, 6 BB, 31 SO Hopefully, he keeps this up for the rest of the year and starts next year at Aberdeen.

Another good outing today: 6 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 6 SO

Good outing for Bradish today: 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 7 SO

Do you consider his two 5 IP 3 runs allowed games great? I’d say the first one was decent and the second one was mediocre considering that he allowed 2 HR. You’re taking out the terrible start he made yesterday. That still happened regardless of whatever strikezone he was dealing with. He definitely had one outstanding start in those 4 starts, but I’m not seeing anything necessarily great in those 3 other starts.

Grayson Rodriguez’s past 4 starts: 5 IP, 5 H, 3 R (1 ER), 3 K, 0 BB, 1 HR 5 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 6 K, 0 BB, 2 HR 5 IP, 2 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 12 K 1.2 IP, 3 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 1 HR Outside of that one outstanding start, he hasn’t been that great lately. His overall numbers are good at Bowie and I wouldn’t necessarily have an issue with promoting him, but I also wouldn’t mind him spending another few weeks there.

Kyle Stowers 2021 (A+ & AA) 212 AB, 13 HR, .406 OBP, .537 SLG, .943 OPS, 41 BB, 86K Austin Hays 2017 (A+ & AA) 523 AB, 32 HR, .365 OBP, .593 SLG, .958 OPS, 25 BB, 85 K I thought this was an interesting comparison. From what I remember, Austin Hays went on to be a top 100 prospect after his 2017 year. He was only 21 where as Stowers is 23. This comparison also highlights just how much Stowers is striking out as he has already struck out more than Hays did in far fewer at bats. That is offset somewhat by Stowers much better walk rate & OBP. If Stowers is able to finish this season with numbers anywhere near the numbers he has right now, it’ll be interesting to see how well he is regarded in the end of the year prospect rankings.

https://www.masnsports.com/steve-melewski/2021/01/os-international-efforts-will-soon-take-another-big-step.html

I thought he looked a lot better than his first outing. He threw some good sliders. I like that he’s not afraid to throw his change up. He was better at locating it in this outing, but it doesn’t appear to be a great pitch to me judging by the hitters reaction to it. I think if he locates it well, it’ll be fine, but he can’t get away with even occasional poor location of it like someone like John Means can because I don’t think his change up is deceptive enough. He was better with his fastball location as well, but the velocity was only 89-91. I was surprised by that since I know he improved his velocity last year and from what I remember he was touching 96 MPH in spring training. Overall, I was encouraged by what I saw last night. Hopefully, his velocity will be a little better if he gets in another game this year.

There were articles last year about Bundy altering his pitch usage while here. Here’s one of them regarding throwing less fastballs: https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-dylan-bundy-pitch-mix-20190614-story.html I don’t think this is a matter of the Orioles being unaware of the changes he needed to make. It looks like he just expanded on what he started to do last year. Either way, I seriously doubt he’s going to continue pitching this well.

I honestly didn’t hear about the track man minor league stuff until now, so I read an article about it. I’m assuming you’re referring to the accusations that they altered trackman data to influence how other teams receive the value of their prospects in potential trades? That’s definitely sketchy and points to the unethical vibes of the organization. I’m not sure if that would’ve been at his direction or if that’d be an analytics department issue. Either way, I’m not debating whether they knew or not about the sign stealing and it’s certainly clear that they were a part of an unethical organization.

Where did I say that they did not know? To me, knowing is not the same as being a direct, active participant. We’ll see what happens as the season progresses and more continues to come out about this story. I doubt that Elias will be connected, but I’m not going to pretend that I’m 100% certain of that.

My question for you is why are you so sure that they were involved? Just because they were part of the Astros organization is not a good enough reason. Just thinking of this in a standard business organizational sense, it really doesn’t make sense for Elias to be directly involved in an analytics based scheme that affected the major league club. His department, as I understand it, was with minor league scouting, player development and the draft. Why would he cross departments to have a say in something that affects the major league/analytics department? What kind of involvement do you think he would even have had? Since codebreaker itself wasn’t illegal, it really seems like the only kind of involvement that could be punishable would be if either Elias or Sig were the ones who suggested or implemented its real-time use in games. I see that as being extremely unlikely in Elias’ case. Since Sig was the head of the analytics department there, he’s much more likely to be implicated, but again I think the only way he’d get into trouble over it is if there’s proof that he was the one who suggested or helped implement its use in real time in major league games.

I personally don't think it'd be a bad idea to move Bedard to the pen. He could go all out and not worry about his pitch count. He's always been a strikeout pitcher other than this year. Same thing in regards to preventing homeruns other than this year. If he fails as a starter I think he could be an interesting guy to try out in the pen. I could see him developing into a dominating relief pitcher as either a setup guy or a closer. That being said I think it's way too early to think about moving him to the pen. I know he's incredibly frustrating to watch at times but he has had two years with decent enough ERA as a starting pitching overall even though he was inconsistent during both years. He's improved in his last two starts. He still hasn't exactly been good but he's been better. He kept us in each of those games. I think at the least we need to stick with him for the rest of this year as a starter. If he ends the year with an ERA over 5.00 then I think the Orioles might start thinking about converting him into a reliever.