Pickles

Jordan Westburg showed me a video of him making love to my wife. It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. He impregnated her and she gave birth to our third son. And he's the best one of the bunch.

He's not a better player than Henderson. Stop.

My mother is less emotional and more rational about baseball than you are.

You're a terrible poster.

I can't imagine he'd live separately from his wife.

I don't know about upset, but I was dead set against either Cowser or Kjerstad going in exchange for Cease.

I feel the same way.

When they do those name every player who played for the 2024 O's quiz this upcoming winter, 50% won't remember that he was ever in the organization.

Means line for the night: 3 IP 1 H 1 R 1 BB 4 K So a solid line at least. As an aside, everyone in Norfolk's current lineup has an OPS over 1080. That's silly.

Ha. Missed it. Just tuned in.

No, but too many do.

Was there ever a resolution for Trade Angelos?

That's the spirit.

Your handle is outdated. It's not 2010 anymore.

No it's not. It's a "statistic" the obsures the truth. He started 100 games at 2b, and less as the season wore on, and none in the playoffs. He was not an everyday 2b for the Orioles.

That 141 is extremely misleading.

He started 100 games at 2b, and less as the year went on. He was not an every 2b in the second of the season by any stretch. FG has his defense as terrible; BRef has his defense as above average. I know many prefer FG, and I'm not going down that road, but his defense was not universally panned by the statistics. Now, I will say I believe they thought/hoped he'd be better defensively when they signed him. And that he had regressed out there. He also didn't start a game in the playoffs, so by the time the team was fully formed, he was not the starting 2b.

The defensive stats on Frazier varied. I felt his range was below average, but he made all the plays he got to, and turned a nice double play. I'm not sure it's fair to say he was below average, nor is it fair to say they ran him out there everyday, particularly in the 2nd half.

It's also extremely disingenuous to suggest that giving a sub-par defender an occasional start in RF at Camden Yards is the same thing as running a sub-par defender out there every night at 2b or 3b.

Yeah, I wouldn't criticize him too much for any of those plays. The first play, he made a great effort. The ball in the gap he didn't clean fieldly, but he cut it off, and recovered quickly and didn't give up any extra bases. The last play was the one I had mentioned. It's routine but it still required to fulfill the role the CF is expected to. There's nothing from last night that would prevent me from continuing to let him play out there.

I was impressed with them overall. They sure don't look like a losing team to me.

Was there a particular play? I only saw one he caught, and he charged in and took charge and caught it. It was pretty routing, but he did a good job taking charge, which is the CF's responsibility.

I said Stowers, because I feel he's the most worthy. But what will really be the determining factor is who gets hurt and what does the big club need. And that's truly unpredictable.

The Royals look to be much improved this year.

So clever. And yet, so demonstrably dense that the minutest of details need to be explained to you in detail before you can follow along.