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That cutter is a thing of beauty.

2-0 playing all the rookies. Lets make it 3-0 tonight!

Thats a crazy stat wow. How much of that do you believe is attributed to differences in pitching/style of play/era vs Brooks just getting to 200 more baseballs?

That makes sense. I doubt either of those guys ever make it to top 20 status. Westburg should certainly move up from where hes at in the post season and potentially 2023 pre season rankings but I would see him topping out around maybe 50 in some of the lists.

How do you define "elite" or "non elite?" Westburg is a top 80 prospect https://www.mlb.com/prospects/top100/ He's not top 10 right now, but top 80 to me is pretty elite. I would imagine that he will go even higher in the post season rankings with how he has played lately. I think Ortiz has a chance to crack top 100 lists as well with how he has played in the 2nd half of 2022.

The bench is going to be phenomenal in a few years when we play lefties. Henderson, Cowser, Vavra, Stowers, Holliday

Looks like the only possible route now is a complete Rays collapse and the Orioles running off 12 -14 wins in the last 16. We need to make up 6 games in 16. So if we go 12-4 the rays would have to go 6-10. The Rays schedule is probably a little more difficult than ours so not impossible, but we need to literally play our best ball of the season over these 16.

Lefty tonight! We shall see!

Pathetic

Everything Gunnar hits is smoked. That ball had .730 xBA just barely missed a line dive homer 406 ft wow.

4 earned runs, 4 hits and 2 walks in 2/3 of an inning today.

Its ok, you can go ahead and update further on their choke. Edit: Sorry for being a jerk. My NFL team lost , and obviously the Orioles getting swept potentially has me in a bad mood.

Not a ravens game thread

This has got to be the worst ball/strike umpiring I have seen all year.

You have 4 guys who are either hovering at .300 or below .300 OBP in this lineup plus a rookie who you're asking to also play one of the most demanding defensive positions. I understand expecting guys to bounce back but saying "no holes" when those are the same guys who cannot hit this year, I dont get. I would say, after Santander I wouldnt have much confidence that we would be scoring a ton of runs until it got back to the top. We need some upgrades from outside of the organization offensively. I have always been a "Hays guy" but I am at the point now where I think we probably need to explore an upgrade in the OF for his spot. Maybe that Cowser, maybe its outside the org, but I think we need to seriously look at upgrading. I also think that Santander, if hes around, has moved more into the DH role and expecting him to be the every day RF would certainly hurt our OF defense.

The Orioles and Hyde have clearly put an every day value behind the perceived defensive value of Hays, Mateo, Urias, Odor, Mountcastle. I think you certainly need guys that can field the ball at an elite level, and you can get away with 1-2 guys who are elite but not as good offensively, but at some point you need guys that can field AND hit. You cant have four guys who have OBP less than .300. Odor will be gone, but there are a lot of decisions to be made with Hays, Mounty, Urias and Mateo moving into the offseason.

Another announcer favorite recently in addition to the "______ has it all working today" to rationalize a bad pitcher dominating, is "Well this pitcher has been really hot lately, and even though the overall numbers dont look great, the last few starts he's really been figuring it out" Rich Hill Last 7 starts: W L ERA IP H R BB K WHIP 2 2 5.52 31.0 35 19 9 26 1.42

Backup C, 2-3 infield spots, 1 outfield spot.. all need to be improved.. Maybe some of that comes from within the org (Vavra, Norby, Westburg, Ortiz) or guys bouncing back (Mounty, Hays), but I think its pretty clear that we need to bring in some offensive talent from out of the organization

I believe its more Hyde's unwillingness to play young lefty hitters vs lefty pitchers. He's been benching them all year long.. Makes you wonder how we'll even be able to put together a lineup card in a few years with Henderson, Vavra, Stowers, Cowser, Kjerstad, Holliday all potentially in the mix

Who couldve predicted that with the lineup today?

Cant wait to hear how "Rich Hill has it all working today"

Orioles OBP today outside of Santander .304, .294, .301, .278, .300, .273, .266, .269 On base percentage... not batting average.. Red Sox already up 1-0.. probably ball game with that garbage right there.

I keep hearing announcers over and over during our games talking about how the opposing pitcher "has it all working" ... Maybe our offense just sucks? in this game alone… OBP: Mountcastle .293 Augilar .281 Urias .301 Hays .302 Mateo .275 We make other pitchers look like theyve got it all going. And with OBP like that, its no wonder we very rarely get long extended innings and manufactured runs and have so many empty innings and solo homeruns. Outside of Adley, Santander, Mullins and Gunnar we really have no one that works a count to any extent. Adrian Martinez for the A's who shut us down gave up 14 hits today. We need some MAJOR upgrades on O. 4-0 seems like 10-0 with our offense.

- Sign Judge to 4/200 contract - Trade Package for top of rotation SP CF - Mullins C - Adley SS - Gunnar RF - Judge DH - Santander 1B - Mountcastle 3B - Urias LF - Cowser 2B - Westburg/Ortiz/Vavra/Norby (one or some of these would have to be traded) SP - Trade SP, Grayson, Wells, Bradish, Kremer - Means in June

The blue jays offensively are just flat out more talented than the Orioles.