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  1. DrungoHazewood
    His numbers look almost identical to 2011. So... Cy Young 2023? My pet theory is that Crack-up didn't have the same visceral impact on Arrieta's chi as Helplessness.
  2. DrungoHazewood
    I want a pony and an Aston Martin.
  3. DrungoHazewood
    It tough when you project as a Platinum Glove center fielder who hits .440 with 80-homer power and 100 steal speed. Nobody these days gets Hugh Duffy and Sliding Billy Hamilton references so you work with what you have.
  4. DrungoHazewood
    No, it'll be you, mocking the fact that they left $88.12 in '19 signing dollars on the table. On the back of the shirt you'll use a Sharpie to write the URL of the thread where you predicted they wouldn't use all the money.
  5. DrungoHazewood
    The key to a product like this is capturing the moment. The die hard international signing fans in my neighborhood want their shirts now, not seven days from now. By next Thursday they'll have shifted focus to barrel percentages in the Venezuelan summer league. Although you can expect a small retro/echo demand for 2019 shirts in 2025.
  6. DrungoHazewood
    If you're not using copyrighted logos, go for it. But since, like, 2% of the fanbase understands the significance of "International J2" and maybe 5% of them would buy a shirt for it, I don't know that hawking knockoffs at your kid's lemonade stand on Maple St. is going to generate the desired revenues. They'll probably just end up in vast secondhand/reject clothing market in Lagos undercutting the local textile industry, while creating the bizarre scene of Nigerians wearing "J2 Orioles", "2011 North Dakota State Fair", and "2016 Brewers World Champions" shirts.
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    1) Bundy currently has a 93 ERA+. Boston has three pitchers with an ERA+ under 100 with seven or more starts. The Yanks have two. The Twins have one. The Astros have one, plus Corbin Martin who's made five starts. The Dodgers don't have any, but they're running away with the NL in a pitcher's park. The Brewers have two. The Cubs have Yu Darvish, who's pitched worse than Bundy for Chris Davis money. The Braves have Gausman and Foltynewicz who both have ERAs in the 6s. So, almost every contender has a couple pitchers like Bundy and that's not even looking at the teams just in the wildcard hunt. Maybe they don't want a Bundy, but almost all of them have a few. 2) Wojociechowski has a 6.64 MLB ERA and a 4.27 in AAA. He's 30. Wo-juh-HOW-ski. The Orioles released him last July and I'm not sure anyone really noticed. But he was the ace of the Columbus Clippers team that you recently stated had a better staff than the Orioles, apparently without looking.
  8. DrungoHazewood
    You can go to spreadshirt.com and it takes a couple minutes to design your own knockoff Orioles J2 shirt for $11.99 plus shipping.
  9. DrungoHazewood
    Yes! We just pulled that much further ahead of the Columbus Clippers for 34th-best team in professional baseball.
  10. DrungoHazewood
    There are people who go on TV to eat cockroaches while D-list TV stars make fun of you for a few $thousand. Being a 25th man on the roster, hitting .160 and pulling down $20M a year, while random people sometimes boo... there'd be a line from OPACY to Nats Park to try to get that gig.
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    Except that doing that stuff isn't the same as changing an 80-year-old's diapers. If you put yourself in the right frame of mind sitting at the end of a major league bench is fun. Any of us would rather be doing that that whatever we're currently doing if we were paid the same.
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    I'm sure your rationale wouldn't change at all if your employer was obligated to pay you $80M.
  13. DrungoHazewood
    During his peak he was very unusual in that he not only had the highest GB/FB ratio in baseball, but was also striking out a batter an inning. He still has the ground balls, but his strikeout rate is down from about 30% to 18%, while the league rate is up 12% over the same period. So his FIP is over 4.00 this year. Yea, we may never again see a pitcher quite like that.
  14. DrungoHazewood
    I think he could have been fatigued. Most of those prior years were in the minors, or split minors/majors. If the usage patters and warmups aren't right 52 MLB innings in high-leverage situations on a contender in 4+ months could wear you out. Although that doesn't explain '13.
  15. DrungoHazewood
    Yes, it appears he had some kind of an obvious problem the O's couldn't fix (internet go-to: he was tipping his pitches!). But the Cubs did.
  16. DrungoHazewood
    I guess that could be it. But in '07 he threw 54.2 innings. In '09 71. In '10 he threw 53 innings. In '11 69.2. Then in '12 he had a 1.20 ERA in 52 innings on August 15th, then allowed 11 runs in 13 innings (32 baserunners) the rest of the year. Had the winter off, came back, and pitching low-leverage mopup he gave up 40 baserunners and 19 runs in 22 innings through mid-June. I don't know what else you do with a guy who is unpitchable for three-and-a-half months when you're trying to contend.
  17. DrungoHazewood
    Don't know, but the 1920 Yanks and 2007 Braves are the only teams to have three 13+ run shutouts in a season since 1901. None of them were consecutive. The '67 O's are tied for the record with five 10+ run shutouts in a season. None consecutive, but they did beat the Red Sox 10-0 three times. They 2017 and 2018 Indians each had four 10+ run shutouts.
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    Remember when Pedro Strop was last seen in these parts? 22 innings, 15 walks, 2 HBP, a balk and 5 wild pitches. He couldn't have hit Puig if he tried. That was a long time ago. He's had a pretty good career except the three months he totally lost it and forced the O's to dump him.
  19. DrungoHazewood
    I picked a great game for my first OPACY trip in quite a while. Everyone had a great time. With 27k in the stands it was like five years ago all over again.
  20. DrungoHazewood
    What are they, like 7-42 when Cashner and Means don't start?
  21. DrungoHazewood
    You're saying you can't sincerely recite a list of stereotypical objects and social problems from rural America in a fake Kentucky accent over a slide guitar track?
  22. DrungoHazewood
    The number of players who are consistently excellent in the minors and consistently bad in the majors is not any different than the number of players who're good in one year in the majors and bad the next year in the majors. There is a lot of information to be gleaned from minor league performances. Ignore at your own risk. There just aren't many players who (properly context adjusted) hit very well in the high minors and never hit in the majors.
  23. DrungoHazewood
    I don't remember how we determined that the attractive woman with Dellucci's family was his sister. It could have been his wife. When the BaySox played their first year at Memorial Stadium I went to at least one game. They were very short-staffed and asked for fans to help roll out the tarp when it started to rain, and I jumped at the chance to run around on the same field as Cal and Brooks.
  24. DrungoHazewood
    Dellucci was a BaySox one of the years I had a 15-game plan with several of my friends. We saw him play a lot, and well..327/.421/.547 good for a .995 OPS in 1997. We were all very disappointed when he was taken. Looking at bb-ref for those '97 BaySox brings back good memories. The epic Willis Otanez. David Lamb. Johnny Isom, Howie, Olympian Augie Ojeda, Mike Berry, Chris Kirgan, Wady Almonte, Jesse Garcia. Alvie Shepard winning some kind of hog wrestling contest before a game. Chris Fussell. Sir Sidney sitting directly in front of us charting pitches. Also, there was a game where Dellucci's family showed up and sat in our section, and to this day I remember how attractive his sister was...
  25. DrungoHazewood
    No Orioles, but Aaron Ledesma's prior year he hit .352 with the O's, good for a 148 OPS+. That sad, sad expansion draft where they lost not only Ledesma, but also Dave Dellucci.
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