ChosenOne21

Sounds like Kremer has improved from his abysmal last year, but is getting pretty lucky. Tony, what do you think Kremer would look like with his current stuff and average luck? 4th/5th starter, ERA somewhere between 4.50 and 5.50?

There should be some hard cap on spending to avoid exactly this. It can be a few million higher than the soft cap, just enough that someone can't do what was suggested. I doubt anyone is going to spend that much regardless, but it couldn't hurt to have the rule

Man, I want to see our lineup with Westburg, Henderson, and Vavra instead of Nevin, Mateo, and Martin/Odor

Jesus take the wheel, here he is

I hope not. The results aren't there at all, but at least Voth has intriguing stuff. Spenser Watkins is a dime-a-dozen AAAA player with nothing especially interesting about him

Carl's Jr. yeah

Want: Jones Take: Jones I know all the buzz has us taking someone else, but someone has to predict it going down like this

It's listed as a stolen base, not defensive indifference

So everyone except Hays, Odor, and McKenna are underperforming their xwOBA? That's encouraging. This offense still has some room to grow

Tyler Wells and Dean Kremer looking like they can be average-ish MLB starting pitchers is pretty huge, too. Add GrayRod, Means, and Hall and that's potentially a great rotation. Zero rotation depth, but a great top 5

Kremer was like 91-93 with the fastball last year. This year he's been more like 94-96. The command is better, too. Not sure what happened with him, but I hope our other pitchers are taking notes

I'm pretty sure either could do better than .590 or whatever Nevin is OPSing right now. Probably play better defense, too

At least for all but two months a year

Haven't seen him, but from what I've heard it's somewhere between average/below average but won't kill you and in a handful of years probably won't be a major league shortstop

Better than Grayson's? Wow

Jeez, it's a lat. He's going to be fine

"I could use the cash" -Andy MacPhail

I'm sure Hall could come to the majors right now and have some success with the fastball and the current state of his secondaries. But I'm fine letting him spend the year in the minors building innings and working on his secondaries. He doesn't have that many innings under his belt during his professional career and I think he can probably better work on his secondaries in low pressure situations. The Orioles certainly aren't going to call him up and have him throw his secondaries endlessly to ML hitters, nor should they

Yeah. Akin has been aces (though not as a starter), Zimmerman, past two starts notwithstanding, has looked like a decent starting pitcher, and Kremer and Baumann have a good chance to find a useful role. I don't think that's a bad outcome at all seeing as how none of them were really top prospects

This is looking like addition by subtraction even if Velez never gets it together

Wasn't there some thing where Jones and Markakis had giant home/road splits on one of the advanced defensive metrics, maybe UZR, and ink was spilled wondering if something about Camden Yards messed with UZR calculations?

Teams tend not to report signing bonuses for players from Venezuela because they have a kidnapping and ransom problem down there

Then we lose the DH for a game. Not that big of a deal

Sounds like that time the Yankees turned that double play with Jeter being like three feet off the bag and Trembley got tossed for arguing and on his way out "ejected" the umpire