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McLaughlin Group rip off.

Narrow window. I tossed something obscure out there yesterday to see if anyone could get the one obvious and one hidden thing that made it interesting.

I'm waiting for OFFNY to make a specific comparison.

That doesn't seem all that outrageous. It is just a piece on the series from the prospective of the Yankees.

Probably holding him in reserve for a high leverage situation.

And the Orioles allowed seven runs.

Drafted out of HS, 7th round, ~1300 minor league PA. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=huff--000sam

The Player's Union should file a grievance on his behalf. Obviously this is going to severely impact his career in a negative manner.

I'm not disagree that he's currently the best option. I'm just stating that we might not have a good option for Center Field right now.

Milone pitched for the Braves, who are managed by Brian Snitker.

I thought his writing was fine. You might be a tad overly critical.

Stewart and Mountcastle both got on base all five at bats yesterday.

Varitek had three seasons with over 100 allowed. Of course those Boston teams were known for now worrying about controlling the running game. For his career he caught 23% (league average 30%) but I think it is fair to say you had folks testing him that wouldn't have been running otherwise.

Obviously the O's should have signed him to a 10 year contract. Could have had a discount.

I wonder how poor a catcher would have to be at suppressing the running game before it encouraged others teams to run enough that it was actually damaging? would five percent do it? Ten?

I think folks have a skewed view on how much impact a catcher has on run prevention. Poor framing and sub-optimal pitch calling isn't going to result in six runs. That of course is assuming Sisco did any worse in those things than Holaday would have.

He sure did. The other three were issues on offense.

Are you suggesting that Sisco's play behind the plate cost the O's six runs?

That is what I've been saying.

If it was one out or if Stewart was on second I could see it.

And five for Mountcastle.

Everyone except Davis is faster than Sisco.

Gah, I don't pull Stewart out of a tie game.

That's five for Stewart, let's see what Mountcastle does.

Mets leaning hard into the hit Oriole hitter strategy.