Moose Milligan

My interest in tomorrow’s game has drastically declined.

Interesting. So he can only play him against pitchers that he's got a history of hitting against (not a lot of options there, given his career stats) and you'd bat him against lefties when AR was had an OPS of 1.200 against LHP earlier this year.

Or Austin Wynns.

Yes, because Severino's .673 career OPS and career OPS+ of 79 is going to be the difference. Let's see you wiggle your way out of that one.

Yes you can because I'd never say anything as absurd as Severino being a good backup catcher. You don't have to look far. Yan Gomes. Kurt Suzuki, maybe. You're also only assuming that the only way the Orioles can acquire a backup catcher is via free agency. That's absurd, too.

Chris Holt is obviously jealous that Severino is the new Wizard.

I think you're capable of talking yourself into pretty much anything.

What would we do without Severino?

ERA sitting at a tidy 7.00.

@wildcard, you stanning Severino is one of your weirder takes. And that's saying something.

I should have added the caveat that the service clock manipulation game will be gone in the next CBA.

Tell me the first few weeks of the 2022 season are more important than an extra year of control in his prime. I didn't say I'd be happy about it.

Heartwarming.

No. He's never healthy and his on base percentage is .287 for his career. His strikeout to walk ratio is horrendous.

I would.

They’re not bringing him up for a look this year. Especially with a labor dispute on the horizon. He should be the opening day catcher next year, 100%.

21 games at Norfolk. .355/.432/.487 = .919 7 doubles, 1 homer. 9 walks, 14 strikeouts. He's stolen two bases, too. Caught once.

Kjerstad still remains to be seen. He's got his work cut out for him, but he can only be viewed as a mistake if Elias knew about his myocarditis and drafted him anyway which I don't think anyone believes to be the case. We've debated about whether the Orioles truly valued Kjerstad at that pick or not. Either way, the draft strategy was a sound one as you're correct, it allowed us to get Mayo. Also correct about essentially picking up more J2 pieces via trades. They look like they could be good pieces moving forward. If Pinto, De Leon, and Deson advance and keep producing next year, our system will remain strong despite graduating AR and G-Rod to Baltimore. That's been Elias's goal all along, a strong system continually graduating prospects to Baltimore with more talent coming up behind them.

Some guys do that and last for a long time. Bob Gibson immediately comes to mind, so does Goose Gossage. Ideally you want to finish square up to home plate and in a good position to field a comebacker. Mussina did that well, so did Greg Maddux. Not only are you in a good position to field but it means that all your momentum/effort/energy has gone directly towards home plate in your delivery, which is ideal. In other words, nothing is wasted...it's maximum efficiency. I used to fall off to the left side when I pitched, not to the degree that Pinto was doing there, but not far from it, either. The thing is, you feel like you're striding directly towards home plate but you're really not. For a RHP, that left foot that comes down, it should be in a straight line towards home plate. If it is, you'll finish square up to the plate. If it's a few inches to the right handed batters box, you overcompensate when you bring your arm over and that creates the fall off to the left side. I always felt like I was striding towards home plate, but my foot would land 3 or 4 inches to the right and I'd fall off. It felt straight and to the naked eye it looked straight. I had to really work in order to make my stride land 3 or 4 inches to the left in order to be really straight. I'm not sure if this is something they'll try to clean up or not as he advances. The results so far look legit, so maybe it's something they'll leave alone if his control and command doesn't suffer. It does speak to a bit of a larger problem, which is repeatable mechanics. Some of those fall offs to the left look pretty severe, others not so much. IMO, his foot isn't landing in the same spot consistently. But it is a dangerous thing if someone whistles one back through the box a guy like that really can't get out of the way (let alone field) if he's falling to the left side. All that momentum falling to that side makes it damn near impossible for him to get out of the way. This all said, it was a blast to strike out someone for the third out and do that little hop off the mound to the first base dugout.

I do believe these guys returned in trades were deemed as "lottery tickets" when these trades went down. IMO, that's the best way to describe them. You get a few lottery tickets, hope you win a few bucks...maybe you'll get the jackpot. If Elias and Perez prove to be shrewd when it comes to these types of trades that will be huge.

It means absolutely nothing, but he turned into an absolute stud for me in OOTP Baseball last year. Fun to see a guy that I simmed a bunch of seasons with actually killing it in our system.

Wow, a win!

I think we already know how this one ends.

Whoa, we got *a* run!

You're right, brainfart. Still, he's no longer invincible. Great to see.