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My only comment on this is that I believe that Davis absolutely has been diagnosed with ADHD and had perfectly legitimate reasons for taking Adderall. I think he was just aloof about the paperwork.

I'm with you on the lying about his workouts, thought about mentioning that but decided to be a tad more diplomatic. I don't think that little "disagreement on the facts" between him and the hitting coach speaks well of him either. And while yeah his Adderall suspension was also his fault for not getting the paperwork done in time or whatever for the exemption, I think that just speaks more to his laziness / aloofness than anything else. Not that that's a positive thing.

He needed to make adjustments in 2018. He didn't. He clearly needed to make adjustments this year. He didn't? Maybe 2020 will have a new tagline - the Year of the Adjustments.

His OBP has gone from the .230 range to the .250 range during that time. His AVG has gone from a low point of .160 up to .198. Yes that is improvement but I can't really say that it's enough to give me much optimism per se.

I am pretty positive about us getting another 1:1 or 1:2 draft pick next year. Does that count?

This guy doesn't seem to have much in the way of power and his OBP is no longer "huge" but here we are after 84 games in Bowie (387 PA) and he is hitting a perfectly respectable .282/.343/.362. Really curious to see what he would do in AAA but i'm guessing that will have to wait until 2020 now.

The Mets were 40-51 just one short month ago. Not exactly world-beating. Since then they have absolutely torn apart such powerhouse teams as the White Sox, Pirates, Marlins, and Padres. Not convinced they are 'for real' yet.

Tied for the 2nd best Exit Velocity on the team overall (Nunez has the best). No idea when that starts to normalize but it's certainly a good thing so far.

Yikes. 6 runs allowed in just 0.1 innings. Guess he's allowed a clunker on occasion......but yikes.

Please be aware of Oriole Hangout bylaw #34 Sec 6 lines 7-8 concerning the realm of speculation. "With respect to speculation in advance of an event, the only rule is that it's never to early to so speculate."

Was just coming here to post the Sun article. Glad to see it was done already. Pretty cool to go from having essentially 0 middle infield prospects to start the year to having the best hitter in the Eastern League playing for us at SS.

Proof that they're spending more in the minor league / international infrastructure!

Highest batting average in all of the Eastern League at .319 . Second in OBP at .390! 7th best OPS in the league at .808. He has played a lot more in Bowie now than he did in Frederick to start the year. Knocking on the door for Norfolk?

Were you at the game? I was there with the family. Watson had a HR and a double in his first two AB. Not too bad.

Can he?

And sell them for $15? Not saying I would ever condone such tactics.

He is the best hitter on the Baysox right now with at least 50 PA. A penny for your thoughts here Mr. Elias..............

Could be worse.........we could be the Nats. They have the 30th ranked bullpen in MLB (and recently promoted a 42 year old Fernando Rodney). We are all the way up to 29th! We have the worst rotation though.........go us!

30 if my math is correct.

.535 OPS vs RHP .932 vs LHP Holy banana splits Batman!

I'm not sure. Would it allow the Rays to have a team payroll over $60M? Money tends to talk.

I'm pretty interested in how the whole Armstrong thing happened. We were able to offload one of our worst arms (Mike Wright) to Seattle for peanuts. They cut Armstrong to make room, and we were able to scoop him up. I'm wondering if Elias has discovered a new potential market inefficiency? Trading crappy bullpen arms to crappy teams who want to cut their underperforming bullpen arms?

So we were able to sign him for 5000 / 147900 = 3% of his slot allotment? Is Elias some kind of wizard? Or does the kid have wealthy parents or something? 3% of slot seems crazy.......although I'm glad it certainly benefits us towards signing the higher picks.

Um, Villar was traded to us right? And he hasn't signed any kind of long term deal........so.............what are we talking about again.

This seems to be true. Melewski tweeted out that Cannon is now on Aberdeen's roster. So presumably we will get a blast of signing updates soon.