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You should have watched Earl more closely.

Who said they have done it? It was a hypothetical. He isn't getting sent to Rookie Ball as a punishment or because he can only get rookie ball hitters out. Their Rookie ball team is the same as their Spring Training area (just like the O's) and since he isn't going on the IL this is how they can get him to that facility.

I've had to drive out of DC on a Friday before.

It is silly to say HE GOT SENT DOWN TO ROOKIE BALL LOL!!!! This is the same sort of thing they did when they sent Halladay down twenty years ago. I won't say I'm rooting for him to straighten himself out, since from all I've heard he's real hard to root for as a human being.

I don't think that is true. I also don't think folks remember every World Series winner. You think folks remember the White Sox won in 2005?

Maybe I'm in the minority here but I'd rather have a decade or so of perennial contender than I would a win the WS and suck for nine years.

So basically stand pat aside from the players you want them to trade.

I'd counter with the blown save after the IBB.

A female marine in my barracks got pulled onto the field one time for some athletic competition. She had a great time.

Young promising teams also become mediocre teams without trading away a bunch of young talent. Mediocre is the default level for teams.

Not Orioles Talk. Not sure why you are making a big deal about rookie ball. This isn't Billy Madison. He's getting sent to their equivalent of Sarasota which is the same thing the Orioles would do in a similar situation. I'd say it's a better sign than getting sent to Buffalo would be.

Me? No.

No idea but if they are the pitch clock might be part of the issue.

https://www.mlb.com/ The link has scores to all the games up on the top banner. It's pretty useful. Up by a touchdown.

Sure. Ottawa was a nightmare. Norfolk is great for the O's.

Norfolk isn't (wasn't) all that dependent on long term Hampton Roads residents. And I have no idea. Wasn't a conversation I had with many locals.

I hope you don't mean someone is doing speedballs.

Oh. I was just talking from a business standpoint. I have no idea how good the team was when I went to games, it was just a thing to do. I figure being an affiliate for a team in NY is going to beat out a team from Baltimore.

Other GM's are not morons. They are not going to be unduly influenced by a Mountcastle hot streak any more than they would an Oriole prospect who started slowly. It doesn't work that way.

Baseball is hard.

If you want to track offense isn't the easier thing to do would be to track, you know, runs? That's the goal. You don't win by getting more hits.

Except you know, when they do. Which they have this season.

80's? They've only been working with the Orioles since 2007. I've been to Tides games when they were a Mets affiliate in the late 90's early 00's.

Why would you use batting average to quantify offense?

Nope. Mets are only scoring .22 runs in the first. That's exactly a quarter of what the Braves are scoring.