Malike

I did. The Os can outbid any team for whoever they want if the player is available and they choose to.

The Os can get any player they want that is available.

Totally agree with this. I'd give Kjerstad some of Cowsers time. The defensive drop-off is real but Cowser is hitting himself to less play time.

Cowser worries me late in games. He's got the absolute worst clutch stats in MLB and he's one of the absolute worst players in WPA. He's the last guy I want at the plate if we need something to happen in a big spot.

Who?

He has the 2nd fastest bat on the team. He slumps and then he doesn't. We have seen this movie before.

His fastball is way down, his strikeouts are awful. He's had 2 IL stints for his elbow and back. He's probably the riskiest proposition to even finish the season healthy let alone be effective.

He's obviously having a great season but his numbers would be nutty if he hit more fly balls. As hard as he hammers the ball it's rarely a fly ball.

Too many injury concerns and the rate and quality that he's pitched this year the team should look to do better.

Runs in the playoffs are generally at a premium, you want your best defenders in the game so you don't give away free runs. Mountcastle will be starting in the playoffs.

If you are looking at just OPS, probably. There are obviously other things to consider.

I think most people are interested in Crochet, the risk is he won't help this year and most people here think we can get him for scraps when it's going to cost guys that most people here wouldn't trade.

You could argue that Mullins should have been a platoon player with a low .600's OPS against LHP in his career, but he doesn't strike out more than a third of the time against them and they let him play every day on terrible teams. Santander only got a few ABs in 2017 and 2018, in 2019, his first season of getting over 400 PAs he OPS'd .753 and .810 against RHP/LHP. He's always had about equal splits over the course of his career. Hays didn't get near a full season of ABs until his age 24 season. He got 60 at age 21 in 2017 and 68 in 2019 as a 23 year old. Like Mullins, he got a lot of time on a terrible team in 2021 and OPS'd .683 and .897 vs RHP/LHP. Cowser at 24 is getting his first season where he's going to get 500 PAs currently at 278 he's OPS'ing .763 and .674 against RHP/LHP. The bigger problem is LHP is striking him out more than 30% of the time. He's a guy you pull for a RHB late in a game. Hopefully, that's not always the case but it's who he is right now. In 2022 in the MiL they gave him 158 PAs against LHP and he OPS'd .616, in 2023 they only gave him 99 PA's against LHP. I'm not saying that anything is written in stone, but he's certainly looked like he might be a platoon bat. Time will tell and hopefully, they give him a chance to prove it one way or the other.

I hope Cowser gets 500 ABs this year against both side pitching. He's starting to look like a platoon player and a near-full season of ABs would be helpful in the information gathering process on that.

I'd be willing to bet that nearly anyone they want is available. They just have to say the right names, and therein lies the problem, they aren't going to say those names.

The problem with pitching is the threat of injury for everyone is real. You just have to accept that fact and hope while they're here it doesn't happen. Of course, the more years you have a guy the better the chance you get a ROI on your prospect capital. If you get a guy for 5 years and he goes down for 18 months, you still have a shot at getting value from them.

I mean, of course, SG if we're playing pretend you make that trade 100% of the time. I thought you were suggesting that those players get it done so I voted no based on that.

They wouldn't make that trade. There isn't a chance in hell that they would, the proposal is so ridiculous that in good conscience I had to vote no. We're asking to trade for the best pitcher in the AL for Kjerstad and probably a bunch of nothing.

I voted no because there is no chance that Detroit will make this trade.

You shouted from the rooftops that Povich needed to be brought up and now you're doing it for McDermott. You will never be satisfied and there is absolutely nothing "telling" about this game. It's a loss and even when the Orioles were losing 108 games they managed to blowout playoff teams like the Guardians who won 93 games and got blown out by the 108 loss O's 13-0 two days in a row.

Oh he can pitch now, I guess.

They'll be fine. There is too much talent here and water always finds its level.

Did you think they wouldn't slump over the course of 162 games because the xStats look so nice on Statcast?

This must be Medina's WS game. 95 MPH average FB and he's throwing 100, good way to blow your arm out on a 36 win team.