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To be fair it’s such a small sample size, he could go 6 for his next 6 abs and be batting .225. I don’t think he should be sent back down unless he goes something like another another 1/25. At the very least, he seems to be having some more solid contact even without getting hits.

Also if we’re doing closer entrance music then…

Nice!

Yeah I hear that. I thought the same thing when I started watching Mad Men. I was like, "This show is okay, but I don't really get all the hype." I kept watching and then I couldn't stop.

Facts. I like how all the score bugs sort of blend into the picture instead of just being on the screen (don't really know how to describe it).

I started watching the first episode, I could not get into that show. Guess I'm going to have to give it another go...

I think the only people blaming the pitch clock are the people who were already opposed to the pitch clock. I'm never going to believe that allowing the pitcher to dick around with a rosin bag, walk around the mound, fix his twig and berries over and over (for however long they want between pitches) is going to prevent TJ surgery, which is obviously always a risk when you're asking a human to use his arm and elbow in a way it wasn't mean to be used. People are obviously trying to act like pitchers going down with elbow injuries is a new thing, but the numbers don't really prove that.

Dude when your posts boil down, “This my ridiculous opinion, which is really just fact, and you can’t argue against it because I’m so awesome at everything in life”, that’s going to turn people off. It will only naturally cause people to take shots against your claims.

You nailed nothing in that post. When you made the thread, it read already statically impossible for the orioles to miss the playoffs. You were wrong.

I’m confused, what profit is there to gain by keeping the prospects in the minors? I’m not saying those guys shouldn’t (in a perfect world) be in the majors. Hays, Urias and Mateo probably should have been traded but they weren’t. At this point, it’s hard to just bench 5 guys from a team that won the division and had the most wins in the league.

Kind of a distinction without a difference, no? Yes, it got hit by a ship and the ship knocked it down, but it did collapse.

By 7 games? We can quibble if that qualifies as "significantly outperformed" or not. I could easily argue that it doesn't mean that much considering how well the Orioles hit with RISP and how well they played in close games. Either way, why should they regress by 14 games?

Is your argument that wealthy people don’t gamble? Someone better notify Vegas. I agree with others that this whole thing stinks of a cover up.

Why be snarky? It's not about whether he's good or not, he obviously is. But do you honestly think there are only 2 players better than him in the entire league?

I just started looking at the list but Soto at #3. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Nothing is free.

I don't think Hays has a future beyond his arb years in Baltimore. That being said, it is nice to have a guy express a desire to stay here. That hasn't happened in awhile.

I really don't understand the argument you're trying to make. A large market team not spending to their fullest market capability doesn't suddenly make them a small market. If the Dodgers decide to have a 30m payroll, that won't make them small market. It just means the owner isn't spending money. If a team like the Orioles spends more than their market theoretically allows, it doesn't mean they are a large market team.

You can think that the Orioles should have a much higher payroll but they are very obviously a small market team.

There are only 9 teams with a payroll of $200m +. The league average is $158m.

I don't think anyone necessarily wants to give that much money to anyone. But if that's the cost of baseball players now, then it's the cost. I would rather give that type of money to a 30-year-old pitcher than a 30-year-old position player.

Nooo. No Ornithologically Correct Bird.

Exactly. We can complain that some owners are just pocketing money and not spending on free agents. But that doesn't mean that those owners are able to hand out a billion dollars of contracts to two players in one offseason. I mean I just don't see how these types of salaries can continue in professional sports. At some point the salaries can't keep increasing just because the next big free agent wants to be the highest paid player in the league. In 20 years are we going to have billion dollar team payrolls?

Jonah Heim hit like 216 in the Orioles system. He went to two other teams before the Rangers. Heim's decent enough but his career season was really a tale of two halves. Adley should have started over him the AS game and had the better season overall.