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    What would extensions for Bradish and Rodriguez look like?

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    1 hour ago, emmett16 said:

    I didn’t.  I was making a comment.


    I think fair to both sides is 100% subjective and does not exist.  
     

    In a situation where someone is paying for goods/services, the only thing right is for the payer to pay the payee for services rendered.  If services aren’t rendered payment should not be made.  
     

    If a player can’t perform due to injury, they should have their own insurance policy that covers their inability to perform.  The employer should not be penalized.  

     

    Was your contractor forced to work for you for like six years for below market rates before you signed that pool contract? That’s what happens in baseball. The situations are totally different. Only a fraction of players make it to the point where they are competitive for a nice, multi-year deal. 

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    "Beliefs Bigger than Baseball"

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    2 hours ago, Satyr3206 said:

    I will tell you a little about my experience. This was the worst year of my life. My wife left me, I was homeless for a while and numerous other things. My Faith got me through it . It works for me. 

     

    Oh man. I am so sorry. I hope you are doing much, much, much better now. And I'm glad your faith helped you. I'm not very religious, but I understand the value of faith. 

    "Beliefs Bigger than Baseball"

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    19 minutes ago, forphase1 said:

    I've actually encountered both Catholics who don't consider themselves Christians and Christians who don't consider Catholics Christians also.  Point simply being that blanket statements such as 'Catholics are Christians' or 'Catholics consider themselves Christians' isn't always that cut and dry.  Once dated a girl outside of Cleveland Ohio whose family was practicing Catholics, and her Dad was VERY adamant that they weren't Christians.  Was some fun and interesting discussions.  🙂  

    That’s just ignorant. Of course Catholics are Christian. Do you think that’s Muhammad or somebody else on the crucifixes hanging in Catholic Churches? People can have all the ill informed opinions they want on religion, but Catholics are Christian is a fact. Basically all of the Protestant Christian sects are directly derived from Catholicism. I mean come on. 

    ALDS First Pitch - game start time

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    12 hours ago, justD said:

    I’m bringing two different ponchos and a couple towels on the off chance they try to play through it. If there’s a delay, so much for jockeying with Joel/Nicks crowds. If they postpone and I’ve flown out for nothing and miss the experience altogether? Well, I guess one of the many reasons I moved to Colorado is being really sick of rain and this would just cement that.

    Actually have learned a lot about the whole postseason experience so far, as well as the playoff push. I think I’ll do things a lot different the next five years or so when we keep returning to the postseason. 😎

    I also recently moved to Colorado. It’s pretty darn nice. 

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    Elias' 2023 Offseason acquisitions grades

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    15 minutes ago, Birdland in NC said:

    Just the fact that Frazier has been getting the majority of starts at 2B in these games down the stretch that are essentially must-win games, I think that acquisition gets a B at least.  Posters hate on him because they have a crush on Jordan Westberg, but if Westberg was a better MLB player, he'd be getting the starts.  There's no way Hyde or Elias are keeping a better player on the bench for these games.   

    Who starts at second has more to do with what hand the starting pitcher uses to throw the ball. Hyde and company are maximizing left-right match ups. 

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    Hicks activated, Cowser optioned

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    5 hours ago, Frobby said:

    I think it is unlikely that they will bring Hicks back.  But consider the following: 

    1.  They made the decision to sign Hicks in the first place.  

    2.  They made the decision to bring back Hicks once he was healthy, rather than sticking with Cowser.  

    3.  Hicks has done well here, in his 183 PA (not 75) with the team.  

    4.  Cowser did very poorly in his stint with the team.  

    Obviously, there are things they like about Hicks, and right now, they think he can help them more than Cowser can.  So why is that going to change over the winter?   They might come to the same judgment then, or simply decide that it’s a good investment to hedge their bets by having Hicks at spring training and then deciding if they still think he’s more ready to help them than Cowser or Kjerstad is.  So, I can’t rule out that they’ll resign him.  Whatever decision they make, I don’t think it will be an overreaction to some SSS results.   The O’s are more sophisticated than that, regardless of whether our posters who support Hicks are.  



     

    Can the Orioles trade Hicks? His situation is still a little unclear to me. If so, then I think the O's will keep Hicks into spring training as you suggest. If he looks decent in spring training, then he might return a middle reliever or a player of similar value if a contending team loses an outfielder to injury, etc. If they have to cut Hicks at the end of spring, then no big loss. 

    John Means pitching for Bowie tonight?

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    1 hour ago, Frobby said:

    At this rate, Bradish will have the lowest ERA of any qualified O’s starter since Mike Mussina in 1992.  So, I don’t think it’s any indictment of Means to say that Bradish has a lower ERA than Means ever had.  Means has a career ERA+ of 121.  That is excellent, not average.  I am not expecting him to post an ERA+ that good in 2023 fresh off TJ surgery, but he could be h helpful to give guys some rest down the stretch.  
     

    Obviously agree with your point, but just want to remind some that Mussina pitched in a very different offensive era. Mussina’s performance relative to his peers was significantly higher than Bradish’s performance relative to his peers. 

    John Means pitching for Bowie tonight?

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    2 hours ago, Natty said:

    I hope Means does great. 

    But don't get your hopes up everyone. Look at his career stats each year. Got average written all over it. Yes he pitched a near perfect game no hitter. 

    Other than that... Bradish has a lower ERA now than Means ever had in any year.

     

    Although I agree that it is unrealistic to expect Means to pitch at his best, I think the rest of your post is pretty off base. First, Means' career ERA+ is 121. That ain't average. Second, Bradish is having a fantastic year. Excellent enough that Bradish's name comes up when journalists are writing about pitching awards. Bradish having a lower ERA this season than any of Means' seasons says nothing about Means. And even Bradish's results this year are closer than you may think. In Means' best year to date he had an ERA+ of 131. That isn't far behind Bradish's 2023 ERA+ of 139. Means' ERA+ in 2021 was 123 and it was 122 in 2022.  

    Counting down as the ‘23 Orioles match some of the O’s winningest teams

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    2 hours ago, Babkins said:

    1992 was my freshman year of high school, and I remember hanging out in the hallway outside my first-period class on a rainy late-September morning as a couple of my classmates passed around the Sports section of the Washington Post. There was some chatter about the Orioles’ chances for a final push until the someone remarked that they were seven games out with six games left.

    That was a fun season, though. I made my first trip to Camden Yards on April 18 to watch Mussina throw eight innings of one-run ball in a win against the Tigers, and we had an HTS subscription, so I watched pretty much every game that whole summer. I started to shift my batting stance from Tony Gwynn to Brady Anderson a little bit.

    Neat! That April 18 game was my first Major League Baseball game. I wasn’t even much of a baseball fan until that game. The ticket was a birthday gift and going to the game sounded like fun. Little did I know it would make the Orioles a part of my daily life for 30+ years. 

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    How much has team speed contributed to the O's winning record?

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    4 hours ago, Frobby said:

    Honestly, I don’t try to compare them.  The best season is the one you’re in, if it’s a good one.   Because you’re experiencing it, not remembering it.  I pretty much loved every season where the O’s ever made the playoffs, and a few where they came close.  

    I hear you, but this one stands out to me for two reasons. First, when I can't watch, listen, or follow the game online, I check the score relatively late at night. For most of this season, I have assumed/am confident that the O's won the game before I look at the score. I didn't feel like that last year. In many, many past years, I would steel myself for the losing score I was pretty certain I was about to see. Second, the way the team is being built seems so special. The Orioles have had a bad to mediocre minor league system for most of my fandom (really, probably for all of it!). This season has felt special to me partly because it does not feel like a one off. It feels like it's just the beginning. 

     

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