El_Duderino

Get him to sign on the line which is dotted.

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Amazing play by Martin just now

Unclear. That’s just what he told me in the Dylan Bundy thread. ?

Come on guys, remember he has made 500k on his knowledge of baseball.

The Orioles aren’t in danger of losing any fan who is tracking the day to day lineup of the AA squad.

DJ isn’t coming to Baltimore for anything less than a drastic overpay most likely.

I remember my first beer. ?

Oh ya. I make that trade again, no doubt.

The real issue is we gave Millers money to Oday.

I took a gander at his stats last night. They really pitched him into the ground. 276 innings at 20, 250 the next year. Brutal.

Anything is possible! (Kevin Garnett voice)

It’s not the worst thing in the world if he turns into Adam Duvall I guess. Fingers crossed he develops some plate discipline.

Makes you realize what a freak Dwight Gooden was at 19.

ten points to Gryffindor (slang) Used to praise someone for a statement or action viewed as commendable. 2008, James Goss, Torchwood: Almost Perfect, BBC Books (2008), →ISBN, page 90:

Easy answer. Management and the players are trying to win as many games as possible without compromising an ounce of the future.

Ten Points Gryffindor.

Replace Straily with prime Aroldis Chapman and we still lose all those games.

DD and Buck put a pretty impressive tourniquet on the wound. Elias is here to do real surgery.

Show me a better or quicker path to competing for the World Series and I am in. Tanking is the only way.

Guess we will agree to disagree. I don’t believe in any pitch framing stats or that someone can be a consistently bad tagger. He seems to block the ball in the dirt just fine. His throwing may eventually reveal itself to be consistently subpar, but I for one need to see more before I slap that label on him. Having said all that, a poor throwing catcher isn’t really all that big of a liability imo. Last year teams averaged .68 steal attempts per game. What’s more important to a teams success is how a catcher hits. And I like what I’ve seen from Severino a lot, but if he gets the lions share of starts back there then we are doing this rebuild wrong.

Point them out for sure. Let those mistakes lessen your view of his long term outlook though and that’s where you lose me.

Not sure how his hitting in the upper minors has been a concern. OBP of .352 at AAA and .396 at AA. Either way I’m not arguing that he is a finished product, just that we shouldn’t be overacting to every bad play he has. Especially on a team that is going to lose 110+ games, and at any time may have a lineup with several guys batting sub .200.

He has over 2k at bats in our system and has gotten on base at a .378 clip.

Yes you are one of the few. Tagging is something so fixable that to me it’s not worth sweating. I’m more excited that he drew a walk last night. Generally I am more frustrated that posters seem beholden to early scouting reports on prospects. It’s been especially bad with Sisco.