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Lakins is a reliever and pitched well in the spring. They won’t need Means’ spot in the rotation for a bit, so no need to call up a starter now. Looks like means will be out for a while

Given the number Norfolk has town to the SWB Yankees the last couple days. the Yankee announcers are probably envisioning the whole team as all-stars

Triple-A has some good/experienced hitters, and mistakes get punished. It's a good learning experience, and why I don't mind him making a few triple-A starts. The way he responded was especially encouraging. Hoping they let him throw a 6th inning

It's interesting though, as slow as they've promoted most of their prospects, they've been semi-aggressive with high school hitters. Gunnar isn't yet 21 and he's in double-A, and Mayo was sent to high-A to start the year (Witt and Henderson were drafter the same year, but Gunnar is almost exactly a year younger)

Hays is pretty much the ideal 4th OF. Has enough speed for CF, enough arm for either corner, and enough bat that he's not an auto out when he's in the line-up. Plus his splits make for an easy platoon. It's on him to demonstrate that he's more then that this year.

I'm not tbh. Major league drafts are pretty much hit or miss. If the Orioles get solid MLB players, they did a good job.

Cowser was a consensus top 10 prospect picked at 5. It's totally fine to prefer other players, but it wasn't like he was the 30th best prospect. Watson in particular wasn't even selected till 16, so clearly other teams also agreed with the Orioles evaluation. Doesn't mean they'll be right, just that there wasn't some grand consensus the Orioles went against. Cowser is also ahead of both those guys in the fangraphs top 100. This just seems like a massive overreaction, especially as the Orioles player has a 1.0111 OPS

The stadium was part of the issue. Doesn't mean it wasn't well run, or that it couldn't have been fixed, or that the process didn't suck. And Frederick should definitely have a team. Aberdeen stadium though is bigger and newer. To bad it's not being run well. I remember having a good time at game there in the past "The notion that the stadium’s facilities are not up to current standards isn’t disputed by city or even team officials. “Our facility is 32 years old. ... Teams have bigger coaching staffs now that they travel with, there’s video people, [data] people,” said former longtime Keys general manager Dave Ziedelis in March. (The following month, he was tapped as the head of the city’s tourism organization, Visit Frederick.) “There’s much more area needed in the clubhouse ... that we simply don’t have.”

I stand by my original statement that I would've left in McKenna. Santander seems very slow out there

McKenna does have value for a major league team...it's just not as a pinch hitter :p Might've left McKenna in the game for defensive purposes (for Santander) given where they were in the order, but can also see the many reasons why not to

Vavra is hitting well in SSS at norfolk, playing 2b tonight. But do you move Urias to 3b full time?

I feel like I’m in the middle on this one. I do think it’s important for the orioles to show progress this year. I’m just more concerned with what August/September look like then April. Spencer Watkins starting the 125th game of this season, will bother me a lot more then him stating the 5th.

Ok, let me try this again. The question was asked as a point of concern about the number of innings the Orioles bullpen is throwing *this* year. The answer appears to be that a low number of starter innings is not inherently good or bad. The good or bad part comes in when the number of starter innings are low because of poor pitching vs by design. To get back to the question of how that relates to this years Orioles bullpen, at least to start the year, the number of innings thrown by Orioles starters is by design, and they have a number of multi-inning relievers in the bullpen for just this reason. Now if the summer progresses and the innings pitched by starters is low due to starters being chased from games early, that's a problem.

All teams use openers occasionally. Rays deliberately constructed their pitching staff around the idea that they don’t really want traditional starters. The number isn’t skewed, it’s by design

Baseball reference has an innings pitched by starters stat. The orioles were last last year, but second to last was the Rays

I agree, season starts when Adley, Grayson et al debut. That said, I think the only one for whom it’s a service time issue right now is Grayson. Adley’s still in Sarasota “rehabbing”, Bradish is 25 & not considered that premium a prospect. So call it two weeks from whenever Adley gets to Norfolk

Per roch took bp yesterday, lineup soon

I thought everyone here liked Mateo and wanted to see what he had. Can’t do that and then complain about him coming up to hit it big spots. McKenna should be a player you pinch hit for, not the one doing the pinch hitting. Hyde wasting his bench in the 6th was a problem. If you’re arguing for Odor (or even worse stewart) as the better option though, tbh you’ve already lost the plot

^this. My hope is that fans (and the orioles) allow him to struggle, and don’t get frustrated when he’s not dominant from day 1.

2 of the 3 guys who got on were righties, including the only one who got a hit. Matteo probably had the “best” chance. As to stewart l, I’ve seen nothing to suggest he wouldn’t have also had a zero percent chance.

Hey, at least none of the orioles did that

If McKenna is a PH your bench has issues. But I’d argue that you could substitute Stewart in that sentence and it would still be true

Bad throw, but Trey should've had that

he's hit the over!

Cedric!!!