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That’s why they call it Common Wisdom....because it is common...lol

I tend to agree with you...but, of course, the Common Wisdom drumbeat has already started....”losers of Day 1, etc.” Losers Baltimore Orioles Going under slot is always risky, but it paid tremendous dividends for Orioles general manager Mike Elias when he was with the Houston Astros, so you can't blame him. Except ... maybe you can. Instead of taking the best player available at No. 2 in Martin, the club got creative and selected Heston Kjerstad. That's not necessarily bad, so long as those signing-bonus savings are used elsewhere later in the draft. But when the O's were on the clock at No. 30, they decided not to take the tough-to-sign Jared Kelley and picked shortstop Jordan Westburg instead. By Elias' own admission, the club was looking to select a pitcher, but some of the Orioles' top targets didn't make it to them, according to Joe Trezza of MLB.com. That's not a great look. https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/1976703

He flies open quite a bit...fastball command will be the first and only order of business. 97 doesn’t help hitting the backstop...lol.

This is from a Mississippi State fan site... Mississippi State junior shortstop Jordan Westburg is another player who could go anywhere from the late 1st round to the Comp A round. Nobody that I talked to within the baseball industry sees him going later than the Comp A round. When it is all said and done, I expect him to be drafted somewhere in the Comp A round and quickly sign. While Foscue has proven himself on the highest level of college baseball, Westburg is a guy with several plus tools but hasn't transferred his hitting tool on a consistent level on the collegiate level. But his plus tools (power, arm, footspeed) can't be denied. And he is athletic enough to play numerous positions on the field, shortstop, third base and the outfield. There is a lot to like about him. He isn't as safe of a pick as Foscue but his upside is better. And he will reach that upside if he figures out how to make consistent contact at the plate. https://247sports.com/college/mississippi-state/LongFormArticle/-Predicting-the-2020-MLB-draft-status-of-Mississippi-State-current-players-and-signees-147983543/#147983543_3

Looks like ME thinks it will be the other way around. “It was just a matter of picking out the right one for us,” Elias said. “With Heston, we feel really strongly and confidently that he’s going to play a good right field and be able to stay there. It’s a really strong profile. It’s a classic profile for that position, and I think there was a lot of certainty attached to that.”

Charlie Finley, owner of the As, was the driving force pushing the DH rule change in 1973...But Bowie supported it.... Bill Lee, Red Sox pitcher, said “The DH is the bastard son of Charlie Finley and Bowie Kuhn.”

6.Speed in putting equipment back on in between innings when they make the last out. I hate waiting.

Not much...

I thought Wellington Castillo got a one year deal with a player option for second year.

A lot of them had opt outs, which was not the Orioles’ bag. And so Dan signed Fowler, oops, no he didn’t, signed Gallardo...yippee!

And, of course, to hear Dan tell it now, in retrospect.....he never would have signed any of those lemons...lol.

Dan also alluded to other options he would have chosen to pursue on the free agent market if Angelos had not insisted on Davis...would be interesting to know more...

Nobody is to blame.

Yes, blasting them in the press... lost the clubhouse....lol.

Fire the manager...lol

The NFL has not had to step out into the harsh light quite yet like MLB just has with this document ....NFL owners hoping against hope for normalization to break out....but their task of safety policy development and protocols of distancing, protecting, sanitizing, etc are going to be even more difficult to jibe with playing their game.

If they play, I will watch. But frankly, I have more pressing issues in my world each day, so I am not going to spend much time trying to sort out the details of the business dispute between owners and players. Both sides have a long history of mistrust and antipathy and I think it will actually be surprising if they work out any arrangement that results in play this season.

The structure of minor league baseball or the "farm system" invented by Branch Rickey has been essentially the same structure since the 1950s...it is an antiquated model that I believe many MLB owners would love to kill off and then substitute an academy model or a training model that they directly control rather than all these quasi independent local/governmental businesses that I am sure are a collective pain to try to coordinate the development of prospects with (which is the major leagues ONLY concern- affiliates do very little for major league brand recognition or building major league brand loyalty even....it is the development of prospects that is the only reason MLB puts up with the current structure and if the pandemic gives a legitimate cover, they will let it all die off and rebuild their own much less expensive and much more controllable training system)....just an opinion.

I would pay whatever MLB and the Orioles asked me to pay. Which is what I have always done. Just tell me what it is and I will send it in.

Sadly, I agree. The way minor league teams are currently operated, the margin for survival is very narrow. I would not be surprised if many teams and parks collapsed over the next year or two. And MLB may have to build a totally new training system for its own prospects that comes out of team pockets almost completely.

Here is my buddy Wayne Henderson, master luthier and flat picker, and the Jeff Little trio with a little pregame music....or maybe for the seventh inning stretch....and pardon Wayne's Red Sox hat....what are you going to do?...lol.

Just for background information....this was a compassionate use study in severely ill Covid patients. It needs verification as it states, but clearly will likely be used in those instances in hospital cases that are severe. This is the abstract from the New England Journal of Medicine....Compassionate use of Remdesivir for Patients with Severe Covid-19- from April 10 edition....https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007016 BACKGROUND Remdesivir, a nucleotide analogue prodrug that inhibits viral RNA polymerases, has shown in vitro activity against SARS-CoV-2. METHODS We provided remdesivir on a compassionate-use basis to patients hospitalized with Covid-19, the illness caused by infection with SARS-CoV-2. Patients were those with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who had an oxygen saturation of 94% or less while they were breathing ambient air or who were receiving oxygen support. Patients received a 10-day course of remdesivir, consisting of 200 mg administered intravenously on day 1, followed by 100 mg daily for the remaining 9 days of treatment. This report is based on data from patients who received remdesivir during the period from January 25, 2020, through March 7, 2020, and have clinical data for at least 1 subsequent day. RESULTS Of the 61 patients who received at least one dose of remdesivir, data from 8 could not be analyzed (including 7 patients with no post-treatment data and 1 with a dosing error). Of the 53 patients whose data were analyzed, 22 were in the United States, 22 in Europe or Canada, and 9 in Japan. At baseline, 30 patients (57%) were receiving mechanical ventilation and 4 (8%) were receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. During a median follow-up of 18 days, 36 patients (68%) had an improvement in oxygen-support class, including 17 of 30 patients (57%) receiving mechanical ventilation who were extubated. A total of 25 patients (47%) were discharged, and 7 patients (13%) died; mortality was 18% (6 of 34) among patients receiving invasive ventilation and 5% (1 of 19) among those not receiving invasive ventilation. CONCLUSIONS In this cohort of patients hospitalized for severe Covid-19 who were treated with compassionate-use remdesivir, clinical improvement was observed in 36 of 53 patients (68%). Measurement of efficacy will require ongoing randomized, placebo-controlled trials of remdesivir therapy.

What an inspirational article! Thanks so much for sharing!! Trey saying he is lucky has echos of Lou Gehrig’s classic speech. He has been a favorite of mine since I first saw him in Frederick...he will be on my prayer list! Hope he is well as soon as possible and back strong!!

Position player absolutely Hays has been the best. Castro has quietly been doing well with 2 scoreless in this game for the win and ERA now of 0.71.