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luismatos4prez

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  1. It's far from a lock Jackson wins ROY even if he is as good as advertised. Evan Carter and Wyatt Langford are studs. DraftKings has the odds at Holliday +250 Carter +300 Langford + 550 (Kjerstad is listed as 9th at +2200)
  2. I've said this before but there are many teams in baseball where Westburg would be the most exciting young player on the team. And he's an afterthought here. Not that people think badly of him, it's just Adley, Gunnar, and Holliday are objectively more exciting. It really speaks to the job Mike and co have done.
  3. I got 0.5% combined with the Orioles row which I'm proud of. I went with Zack Britton (.300 hitter), Will Clark (10 HR), and the vulture himself Mike Baumann for 10 wins. Will Clark was a riskier pick than I realized (had 10 exactly), but it worked out.
  4. If the wildcard game is at home, I'd take that. Maybe I'm getting spoiled, but both would be disappointing outcomes. Bad times will come again for this franchise, I feel urgency to do well now when the team is so young and talented.
  5. I trust Tony's opinion way more than the others. 1. Holliday 2. Basallo 3. Mayo is clear to me. Outside of that it gets murkier. I think Basallo has a clear chance to be our 4th straight #1 overall prospect next year. The list of catchers who made the majors by age 22 this century is short and mostly perennial all-stars (Yadi, Brian McCann, Mauer, Salvador Perez). Basallo absolutely raked in A+ with great plate discipline in his age 18 season while playing purportedly strong defense at catcher. That's really rare. He'd be a Top 100 prospect if he had David Ortiz's defensive skills imo. That he can catch on top of that?! That being said, it wasn't that big of a sample. But I'm excited to see what he does in Bowie this spring. We have a potentially really special lineup forming with these prospects and the organization's current development abilities.
  6. I was so close today! I tried to do all former Orioles for fun and I missed one. Jon Schoop / X / Jorge Lopez Roberto Alomar / Adam Jones / David Hernandez Hanser Alberto / David Lough / Bruce Chen Apparently Delmon Young exclusively played LF/DH for the Twins. Who would've thought? They didn't even give him an inning in RF.
  7. 9/9, 61 today Danny Valencia (0.6%), Pat Dobson (2%), Curt Schilling (0.6%) Rich Hill, Bob Feller, Nap Lajoie Jim Thome, Mark Buerhle, Ken Griffey Jr. Love when the Orioles show up.
  8. Small-market NL Teams kill me, I only got 7 today (223) Ben Revere, Alex Cobb, Ji-Man Choi Caleb Joseph, Steve Finley, X Rajai Davis, Edgar Renteria, X I need to memorize more guys like Chris Owings and Jordan Lyles who bounced around small-market teams.
  9. 9/9, 98 today Steve Finley, Jeremy Pena, Framber Valdez Rickey Henderson, Easton Lucas, Catfish Hunter Adrian Gonzalez, Jarren Duran, Hideo Nomo -- Really pleased with my Easton Lucas pull, .04% so far. Red Sox no-hitter triggered a couple bad memories.
  10. 9/9, 139 today Matt Carpenter, Marcel Ozuna, Stan Musial Sonny Gray, Pablo Lopez, Luis Arraez Andruw Jones, Mike Piazza, Jackie Robinson I get 9/9 roughly 2/3 of the time these days. I sometimes struggle with categories like Saves, Wins, Gold Gloves, and small market NL teams. I love when an Oriole bird pops up. I used Andrew Velazquez (NYY), Miguel Castro (TOR), and Ty Wigginton (All-Star) earlier this week and got under 1% for all of them. 3 useful facts I heard a while back and remembered: Cesar Izturis played for every NL Central team. Mark McLemore played for every AL West team. Steve Finley played for every NL West team (plus Baltimore and Houston of course). I use those guys a lot. Rich Hill and Rickey Henderson are very useful, too. People have mentioned Edwin Jackson too but I can't remember for the life of me where he pitched.
  11. High Desert?! I had to Google that one. Apparently they were our A-Ball affiliate in the Mojave Desert from 95-96.
  12. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL201907170.shtml
  13. As someone who watched every game through the dog days of the rebuild, I remember him. He mowed down our lineup a couple times for the Nats during those years. His overall ML numbers were bad, but 180 IP with a 2 ERA in Korea is impressive stuff last year. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL202206210.shtml https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL202206210.shtml
  14. Self-shout out here. I correctly guessed the 5 players that were added to the 40-man last year and the 0 players this year. It's fun for me to track throughout the year. I'll see if I can make it 3 straight years next year. Mayo, Povich, Norby, McDermott, Armbreuster, Rhodes, and Haskin are the early candidates.
  15. That was an absolute bomb. Bases loaded down a run, 2 strikes, 2 outs, left on left. Nice job Cowser, I still believe in you.
  16. Epic WWE-style moment. I can hear Jim Ross now. "Bah Gawd, that's The Mountain's music. It can't be!"
  17. As Urias was fielding that ball, Fangraphs still had TB at 68% chance of winning the division.
  18. Final Update I like them but wouldn't protect them 1. Hudson Haskin - .268/.368/.463 in 95 AAA PAs. He's a backup OF type anyway so a team could take him despite his lack of AAA experience. 2. Brandon Young - 4.26 ERA, 4.46 FIP in AA coming back from TJ. 3. Garrett Stallings - 5.47 ERA, 4.30 FIP in AAA. Good AAA SP depth, but that's it right now. 4. Jean Pinto - 3.72 ERA, 4.48 FIP in AA at age 22. Scouting reports say he doesn't have much of a fastball, not someone you'd expect to be selected. Had a chance but didn't do enough 5. Wandisson Charles - 8.40 BB/9 in AAA 6. Maverick Handley - .329 SLG in AAA 7. Kyle Brnovich - 6.70 FIP in AA coming back from TJ -- I'm probably the only one that cares about this, but I had fun tracking these guys this year. There will be plenty of 40-man spots, but my final opinion is none of them are worth protecting in my opinion. Any disagreements?
  19. I was working today and didn't suffer through his performance, but I'll go against the grain and say Fuji is still a playoff arm for me. He really isn't that wild if you look at his total numbers as an Oriole. Pretty standard wildness for a strikeout reliever. He reminds me a lot of Tanner Scott when he was with the Orioles. When he's got it, he's dominant. When he doesn't, we're going to suffer for 3 batters. He averages out to a useful reliever though. I'd take him over Baumann, Baker, Wells, etc. as the 3rd pen righty.
  20. I know you all know this, but a 3 game series is chaos and anything can happen. Especially against a good team like TOR/SEA/TEX/HOU. It's huge to win the division and avoid that. If each series is a coin flip, teams that don't get a bye have a 1/16 chance of winning the WS. Teams that do get a bye have a 1/8 chance of winning the WS. Getting the bye doubles my odds of seeing a parade That is to say, thank you Angels.
  21. I've decided I like Cole Irvin. He's been solid out of the bullpen (3.98 FIP before tonight's strong outing) and competitive as a swingman starter (4.71 FIP). I hope they offer him a couple million in arbitration to reprise that role next year.
  22. As much as I like Fuji, he has a 3.95 FIP as an Oriole. 169 relievers have thrown 10+ IP with a better FIP this year. I would be happy to bring Fuji back on a 1 year deal, but I don't even trust him with the 7th inning on opening day next year. My bullpen next year before any acquisitions is Cano, Wells, Hall, Irvin, Webb, Coulombe, Perez, and Lopez. Tate and Akin will be non-tendered, Baumann and Krehbiel will be DFAd. Vespi, Zimmermann, and Baker can be optioned.
  23. We're going to have to put them down and win the division ourselves this week. No one is going to help.
  24. I strongly believe Basallo is a Top 20 prospect in baseball right now.
  25. September Lock Kjerstad On the Bubble Brandon Young - Last outing 4.2 IP 7 K 1 BB 3 H, that's enough to get me interested. Let's see how his last few outings go. Outside the Bubble Hudson Haskin - Looks like a Ryan McKenna type with only 96 AAA PAs. Hard to see adding him with our OF depth. Maverick Handley - Below average AAA hitter, his defense would have to be transcendental to get added as a 3rd C. Jean Pinto - 4.57 FIP in AA at age 22 is good but not good enough to get added. Garrett Stallings - Spenser Watkins / Asher Wojciechowski type. 4.76 FIP in AAA. Kyle Brnovich - Looked alright back from TJ then got hurt again and hasn't pitched since 8/10. Wandisson Charles - Couldn't find the strike zone after getting promoted to AAA.
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