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6 minutes ago, Il BuonO said:
We have a guestroom you can stay with us.
Thanks!
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1 minute ago, Il BuonO said:
A very nice venue for a AAA team.A very nice venue for a AAA team.
I live about two hours away from there and kick myself every summer for not going. It's just so dang hot! And I don't want to drive back home after a night game and don't want to get a hotel room just to see a game. I sound like Goldilocks.
We do have a local collegiate league team so that's my live baseball for hot summer evenings.
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Excellent acquisition by DD.
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53 minutes ago, Frobby said:
Hard to say. Mark Hendrickson was 24 when he returned to baseball. You've got guys who took multiple years off to go into military service. So it would hardly be unprecedented.
I hear you, but Hendrickson and other similar success stories are incredibly rare and Hendrickson is IMO a very special case. IMO teams gave Hendrickson a lot of chances because he was a 6'9" lefty...they kept imagining they were going to get Randy Johnson instead of the career 89 ERA+ that Mark really was. Mark made his debut at age 28 and pitched until he was 37. He pitched at such an advanced age because the Orioles were enthusiastic and gave him a chance (and they got one decent year out of him), even though he only really had two or three decent years in his career. It's hard to plug these delayed guys into the predictive models, but it just seems so unlikely that Pat will really choose baseball and have enough talent and drive at it to really do much. Anyway, my "curiosity" statement wasn't meant to be snarky or anything...I find the story interesting too. It is worthy of curiosity.
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The guy will be 25 next summer and hasn't pitched since 2014. Even if he gave baseball a shot next year then he's a pretty serious fringe at this point. And he's unlikely to choose baseball. Seems nothing more than a curiosity at this point.
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Man, this thread makes me wonder what the board would have done with Cal Ripken. "Bench the loser!" "Cut him!" "He doesn't deserve to be an all star!" "Silver slugger, my butt! His OPS was only .718!" "HOFamer! What???!!!"
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By the way, Bryce Harper OPS less than .650 two months last season. It happens.
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4 minutes ago, bpilktree said:
He wasn't that bad the 2nd half last years he still had an Ops of .800 the second half of the season.
Yes. Machado had a sOPS+ of 114 in the second half last year and he was incredibly hot in August (143 sOPS+). But folks are not going to let data get in the way of doom and gloom. Some posters seem to think Machado is not a future HOF type player and are trying to turn that into "he stinks".
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Just now, webbrick2010 said:
Fine... how long does he get to be in a slump before folks consider that he is not that good a hitter? At least the HOF, and 400 million dollar contract talk has died down.
Not a good hitter? Look at his stats. He has been an excellent hitter at a very young age. Come on.
But yes, some fans jumped the gun and were already planning his coronation in Cooperstown and O's fans quickly overlook or excuse his past behaviors that would drive them crazy if he was a Yankee, Red Sox or Blue Jay. I'm not defending the idea that he walks on water, but the idea that he is not a good hitter is unsupportable. He's having a bad year and he's definitely not the second coming of Mike Schmidt, but he's been incredibly important to the Orioles. Even in his bad year he has OPS .829 in June. He's looked much better this month although he seems to run very hot or cold.
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13 minutes ago, webbrick2010 said:
.223/.297/.435/.731
18th out of 22 qualifying ML 3B
What team would consider Manny a major upgrade to what they already have?
No chance that he is dealt in July, hope he has a fast start next year and plays a good SS to increase his value. Doesn't hit enough to be a 3B
I know you get carried away with your negativity, but this is just totally idiotic. Manny has played three full seasons at 3B in the majors and ranked 3rd and 5th in OPS in two of those.
p.s. I do, however, agree that it is unlikely that Manny will be dealt this year. If the O's deal him, then it will be before the deadline next summer. His value is down now and the O's are going to hang onto him until the last possible moment regardless of his performance/trade value IMO.
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11 hours ago, CheeryO said:
Not good, but it's not like Urias has been a major factor in the Dodgers' success year. Can you imagine if Urias was a starter for the O's? We would all be talking about him like he were already HOF worthy and blame the O's coaching for ruining his arm. The Dodgers are the opposite of the O's in that they have become deep in talent and patient. They are built to absorb bad luck here and there.
One of my friends is a life-long, die-hard Dodgers fan. He frets worse than any O's fan I've ever met. We're all the same.
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Thanks for the info philly
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5 hours ago, Uli2001 said:
This would be the absolute perfect time to negotiate an extension. He might not like to negotiate right now, he might even be offended, but his value has taken a hit. If the Orioles make a meaningful offer, it might be hard for his camp to take the risk and pass up.
Agents are not that dumb.
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1 hour ago, InsideCoroner said:
I seriously wondered if Davis had vision problems, since he often swings like it. But I ruled that out since someone with poor vision wouldn't be able to pick throws out of the dirt as effectively as he does.
It's sound. He can hear the ball spin, hit the dirt, etc. it's his super power.
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4 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:
Giggle, giggle
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I don't understand all the complaining. I think he's the best legally blind hitter in the big leagues.
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9 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:
Huge win. Kim, Flaherty and Smith all with walks. The big bats need to see that you don't need 4 hits in an inning or a homer to score runs.
Davis walked twice and Machado walked once. Are they "big bats"?
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Rickard is pretty fun to watch, WAR or no WAR.
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Thanks for sharing. Lots of work!
This goes along well with some of your other threads. Baseball seasons can be really weird and this team seems particularly weird. The home runs has led many fans to believe that the team's success is built on offense, but a lot of your analyses suggest that it's the age old adage of pitching and defense.
I also think Buck Showalter means a lot. A whole lot. The team typically performs late in the year despite how hard he rides the regulars. I think that has a lot to do with him.
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Geesh. The Orioles shouldn't be allowed to trade away minor leaguers. Very few minor leaguers for veterans deals have worked for the Orioles. They have over payed for a lot of mediocrity or worse. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Also pretty sad that the minor league system seems only incrementally improved.
And we should all pray hard for Gausman and Bundy. Really hard.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">3 of my favorites on the beat. Former <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/orioles?src=hash">#orioles</a> Josh Towers, Jay Gibbons and John Parrish in the house. <a href="https://t.co/Yj7yTSYuJn">pic.twitter.com/Yj7yTSYuJn</a></p>— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) <a href="">September 19, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Jay was looking a little metro. Interesting look. Parrish looks huge.
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Are you arguing that he'd be preferable to Trumbo? Kim, maybe, but Kim has almost 1/4 of the salary on an annual basis.
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In a better constructed roster Trumbo is the DH and a better defender who can hit at least decently is the RF. They thought they had Fowler so the current roster wasn't really the plan. I was mainly just thinking out loud while being surprised by Markakis' season.
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Nick has hit far better than I anticipated this year. That said, his OPS+ is still lower than all three of the Orioles "regular" outfielders. I haven't seen him play defense this year, but I'm sure he's a better defensive OF than Trumbo (not hard) and probably better than Kim (almost certainly better). I was against signing him, but he would have been far more useful to the O's than I expected.
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None of that is true. None.
Well, he did have surgery in June of that year so SOME of it was true.
Tanner Scott
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Edit: Posted in the wrong thread!