Malike

I understand, I was being a little sarcastic, they have a fantastic rotation and can't hit, so all weekend there will be teeth-gnashing about how terrible the O's are at hitting. We're facing great pitchers 5 days in a row.

Exactly, selling out for power and not taking walks is a silly team philosophy as it appears they are all trying to be aggressive this year.

We're facing the two best pitchers the Jays have but don't worry, it will get easier with the shoddy Seattle rotation over the weekend, should score a ton.

Yeah, they are feast or famine with HRs. They can't string together base hits.

.415 OPS, pitch around him.

Kevin was like uhhh. I don't think Palmer knows the reference.

The best way to get out of a slump is to sit for a week. His defense has sure been awful, so his head clearly isn't in the game, right?

He's a smart kid and appears as motivated as he is talented. I hope we hang onto him.

If he's playing every day he should be around 160 ABs, not 88.

He also said he's using a heavier bat this year.

I'm going to guess the odds makers.

Yeah at some point the scorching hot start will be overshadowed by his ice-cold period. From March-April 15th he had a wRC+ of 258 and 1.297 OPS and a BABIP of .500 From April 16 to May 13 He's had a wRC+ of 74 and .580 OPS with a BABIP of .233 so a bit unlucky, but not nearly as big a swing as he was with the luck in March through April 15th. At some point, you have to be concerned that he doesn't make the adjustment back. I'm sure we'll know more in another months time and hopefully, he settles somewhere in the middle. I said much earlier during his scorching hot streak that I would be happy with a .780 OPS out of him, I think I'd take the under going forward for the rest of the year.

He is looked at as one of the best pitchers in baseball, it's hard to exceed those expectations. What would be the next level up? God mode?

I'd guess there are many more top prospects that weren't able to figure it out than those that were. I'm still confident that the Orioles are not going to have a 100% success rate with their top prospects and some will be below-average MLB players.

Saying he needs to make adjustments just like Gunnar is probably not fair. Gunnar is a far superior player, and it's not out of the realm of possibility that one (or even more) of our top prospects are going be below average at the MLB level. Nobody hits on every single top prospect.

I agree overall with the list and that there is plenty of room for improvement, I also think there is plenty of room for regression and that's not recency bias. Several of the names that are exceeding could be put on the below expectations in a months time.

If you wanted to sit the guys who haven't done much in the past two weeks, we'd have about 3 players on the field.

I blame the irresponsible reporting from The Athletic and CBS Sports, and other sports outlets. They have him listed as a rookie in articles posted this week.

Would have been nice to get the extra pick, we're not picking number 1-4 anytime soon.

Mason Miller is going to walk away with the ROY.

Slider, changeup, it's all the same to him.

A groundout would have probably scored the run.

He's looking for nothing but changeups.

It's even worse, it's Cowser.

Varsho mashes LHP. Bold move.