Moose Milligan

Wow, Aguilar.

That's true, it was pretty terrible.

Can't wait!

Our bullpen is so screwed for the rest of this series unless we get a 7 or 8 inning start from someone.

It'd be too much to ask for him to put the full package together.

Yeah Hays, I'd be mad if I swung at sliders a foot and a half outside, too. But I don't.

Odor is hot WTF

Man, was that shot by a Mateo a dinger in other parks? Well, whatever, we got Odor up with two outs.

That sucks. I hope it's not significant.

Yeah, it was an effort to catch lightning in a bottle.

The fact that he's the 2nd best hitter should be alarming and cause for concern. If you look at the rest of the AL East teams and who their 2nd best hitters are, I'm would assume that Santander doesn't really stack up. Look, I'm not trashing Santander. He's a good player. He's just not GREAT. I'm not ignoring anything, but @Sports Guyis correct, his OPS is still under .800. His WAR, like you said, is 2.4. That's replaceable. If you want to cling to wRC+ like it's some great harbinger of a true stud player, well, that's fine, too. I'm fine with keeping him if it's deemed that there aren't any worthwhile trades for him out there. I'm also fine with trading him if we can get something that's perceived as valuable in return. For the record, again, he's a good player. He's a fine player. Seems like a really good dude, likable and I'm impressed we got him in the Rule 5. But he's not irreplaceable.

I hope everyone (including us) walks Judge for the rest of the week. I just want to see Yankee fans cry.

I'm not so sure about that. We need to give credit when credit is due, this isn't Syd Thrift's front office. It feels good to say that our FO is pretty smart, I mean I just cheated The Sun paywall courtesy of @Can_of_cornand read an article about this pitching lab the Orioles have set up. We're firmly in the 21st century when it comes to how baseball is looked at by a FO. I don't believe they think that Aguilar is head and shoulders a better option over Stowers in all facets. I think maybe Hyde liked a matchup better for whatever reason.

Inclined to agree. There's a big delta between the guys you can trust and the guys you can't. Krehbiel and Reed are guys that aren't that reliable right now.

She's gotten into the team this year. I'm still trying to find a gentle way to tell her that Mountcastle isn't that good, but she really likes him so I dunno.

Wife: "Wait, what the **** is Aguilar doing in there?"

Bummer about Urias, wanted to see if he could get the cycle.

Did I miss anything?

Do guys suddenly become core players when they go on hot streaks?

Are you advocating ways to get behind a paywall? On a site that The Sun probably looks at? I like you, sometimes.

Not paying to read it.

Maybe the best contract season in any sport, anywhere? Would be hard to quantify across other sports but it's got to be in the conversation. Anyway, hats off to him for betting on himself and having a historic season. Judge seems like a good dude, he's good for baseball.

You're not much of a challenge there, Reezy.

I understand being too lazy to, like, mow the lawn, take out the garbage, run an errand or two on a cold day, but c'mon. All you gotta do is shuffle your fingers around on the keyboard a little bit. https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=mickey+stanley+1968+world+series

You're here and not trashing everything the Orioles do? Wow. Maybe we should delve into science more often.