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That's fine, I respect it. I just look at what he did in 2013 and adding Nelson Cruz that year (2014). Davis in front of him, allowed Nelson to have a hell of a season as who were you gonna pitch too? Davis still hit 26 HR and 70 some RBIs that year. Line ups success (whole team going for a win) is based on can you force the other team to pitch to you and avoid one off pitching changes. Davis previous season played a role in Cruz's season that year. Can't pitch around both of them (Davis lead the team with 60 that year).

Guessing it Medical Retirement and that its to protect him for tax purposes. I am sure both side and insurance company covering liability (like Albert Belle) said do it this way.

I don't get this, yeah he dropped off a cliff post 2016 season. But 2012 and 2014 weren't possible without him. The value of his contract is 14% less then the 2016 dollar rate. He did a lot for kids especially those with born with heart defects with time and donations. Stuff happens in baseball, get the yips or just lose the feel for it The fact he put money and time into the community should deserve more respect.

For Orioles TV crew.. 53 is new blood. lol.

Yeah, that isn't gonna happen. All about Oriole way and tradition.

Honestly the broadcasts got stale. Palmer popping up for a few innings to tell little stories last year was all that worked. Not a huge fan of Ben McDonald. But that's the new blood they are going with. Ah well.

Not really. Think about it. Gary Thorne didn't come to terms until August last year. So he missed basically 1st half of O's season. On top of that it was a 1 year contract. He wasn't fired, he just wasn't resigned. Just like any other FA.

Yeah, no. It makes zero sense. Georgia is having a spike in cases. Hell, even in Ohio where Indians and Reds are.. there is a spike. I had friends say why not have the Blue Jays play at Columbus Clippers stadium in Columbus. Then I had to remind them 1 out of 8 tests for Covid-19 in Franklin County is positive. Its 2 times national average and 2 times the rate of Cleveland and Cincy.

Its weird watching Mike Wright pitch a decent game in the KBO. He slimmed down and has control. So weird. It's like all he was was KBO level. Lol.

I can tell you during 1996 season, series at home against CWS, Brady went 0-4 that night, was in attendance and stayed for his autograph..ended tossing a ball with him. Met Cal, Raffy and others that night. Just cause I was willing to ask to play catch. Got a story about Darren Bragg from 2003, he and another minor leaguer and I got drunk at O'Tooles pub in Reynoldsburg, OH, when he played for the Clippers. Was only person knew who he was. Says worst pitcher he faced was Moyer.

What did he dog? A foul ball? What?

But you do it in team meetings, not in front of tv cameras.

Huge difference, team meeting is behind closed doors. Pulling a player aside and saying hey what's up with that or this while in the dugout is different then saying something and walking away.

He's the veteran guy..

Leadership is about admitting when you are wrong. Trust me, not a fan of Davis, but doing that to any player with 9 plus years in MLB shows a lack of respect to the player. Like I said they could've gone down the stairs and he could have said his peace.

So Hyde is doing a great job...but he still makes the line ups.. makes no sense. Has very little experience managing in the bigs. As a manager you need to know how to deal with prima donnas. I am sure the Os will eat the Davis deal in the off season if they can get rid of him by winter meetings.

They are worse. Givens wasn't traded (a bullpen arm) cause he regressed so much. If this team wins 60 I'll be surprised.

I am criticizing him of saying something in the dugout. Davis is the senior veteran on the team. Hyde and Davis coulda gone down the stairs and Hyde could say his point. But he decided to embarrass Davis in front of the dugout. You ever see Davis get worked up like that..Buck was hard nosed and straight to the point. You don't think Buck criticized players in his office.. I am sure Hyde will apologize to Veterans on the team. You had two who help stop it.

Davis gets paid either way. MLB contracts are ironclad. We have no idea what Hyde said. But we watched Davis for almost 10 years now..he's never had a reaction like that..my guess is Hyde crossed a line.

Hyde was a stop gap. Kinda like all the managers we had as we "rebuilt " and the Buck came in. Sadly, all Hyde has cheap ploys, not his fault, but its obvious why we have him. No experienced Managers would take the job cause it's a rebuild. He obviously has a disconnect in developing guys in majors. He talked a good game to Elias, but his inexperience shows. Oh, everyone will talk about Davis "losing" his mind. But you ever see Davis do it in Texas (majors or minors) or with Baltimore until Hyde? Davis struggled quietly. Prolly was addressed after games for mistakes by Buck. So a guy (manager) who played a total of 200 games in the minors calling him out in the dugout was too far. I get it. You do it in the manager's office. Not in the dugout.

Cuz he's a rookie manager who knows he's gone. He is a short term solution. We were gonna be bad, but this bad? Some of his choices are head scratchers.

I will say this.. I don't know what Hyde said, but if he was calling Davis out in front of the bench..that's hughley unprofessional of manager to do that to a Veteran player. Something Hyde has no experience with. Not saying Davis' reaction was right but you do that stuff in managers office after the game. Hyde chripped something to a Vet. That's disrespecting a player and the game.

I've accused Boston in the game area. Tampa is striking out alot so it's not surprising there. Trumbo's HRs are missiles because they are mistakes and he's always killed mistakes. Trumbo won't hit 45 plus HRs this year. His rookie year he hit 29 and finished 2nd to Jeremy Hellickson and if I was the Orioles FO I'd look to getting Hellickson from the Phillies.

No, probably not. More likely Matusz as the rest of Bullpen is set and good to go. He's the only real question.

Matusz has no options. O's have to DFA him.