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No, it’s not. You have all the former power pitchers who learned to be crafty once their velo dropped, but not a ton of guys who succeed purely as finesse pitchers in this era of baseball. On a somewhat related note, it makes you feel good to see the Rays drop 8 runs on the Yanks after we just held them to 6 runs total in three games.

That’s great to hear, I hope she keeps that clean bill of health and that you both celebrated in style.

I hate the clownish City Connect designs a few teams have (San Diego being the worst), but my god, would a second color really have broken the bank? At least the White Sox black-and-white unis had some sense of style.

Facing a righty, I would go with Adley. Against a lefty, Urias.

My bad, I take that back. I misread his AAA numbers on my phone. (The numbers I quoted weren’t made up, those are apparently his MLB stats this year). Agreed that he has looked better of late. I hope he turns it around, I like the Irvin trade.

Since being demoted, Irvin has given up 17 hits, 8 walks, and 15 earned runs to AAA hitters in less than 13 innings pitched. Whatever he was supposed to figure out by being sent down, he hasn’t. You think that “length” is going to play any better against the Rays or Yankees?

I think what the broadcasting team said during today's game was very relevant, that the teams with the least amount of bullpen innings are historically most likely to get to the postseason. We need a couple workhorse starters. GRod could be one, but probably not this season, and I can’t imagine Means will get many games over 90-100 pitches once he’s back, either. I hope they trade for help because the bullpen can’t keep up this pace through the summer, let alone the fall.

I know we lost two of three, and it feels like we could have won all three of those games (because we could have), but I really, really liked what I saw in this series. We faced the best team in the NL with a couple of the best starting pitchers in the game, and we were never, ever out of it at any point. I think the Braves and their fans will be glad to see the O’s leave town, really. That was a great series, it almost had a postseason vibe to it.

I’m just giving Moshagge3 some good-natured grief because I seriously thought of his post when Pillar came to bat. So he’s obviously to blame more than Coloumbe’s meatball!

I just dropped by to find this post and say I hate you for it. It was in the back of my head when Pillar pinch hit, and as soon as he hit the ball it was like Ralphie from A Christmas Story. “Oh fuuuuuu…”

McKenna deserves a bit of respect from last night’s game. He made a couple solid plays in left (even though I cringe every time he one-hands catch that doesn’t land squarely in the webbing), and that drag bunt single directly after the Mullins no-doubt homer was a great idea.

Not a pretty series, but I’m sure some casual fans are moonwalking onto this forum today thinking “Alright, 21-9! We won another series, put up 24 runs the last 3 games, let’s see what the OH has to say!” Finds: doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, Adley, doom, doom, doom, Cano, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom… quickly slams laptop shut.

I was in LA in the mid- to late '90s, and also went to a few games at Anaheim, and it was during the cheerleader era. It was... weird. Like you, it was the thing I remember from those games the most, so it was a pretty bland baseball experience. I definitely preferred going to Dodger games.

Gibson never had a single game in his 11-year "mostly sucky" career where the opposing team made contact that often (97.5% of the time).

1 swing and miss last night, and 17 hard-hit balls... that's almost hard to do even if you just throw nothing but fastballs. Could he have been tipping his pitches?

His OPS+ is 89, which is higher than Frazier or Santander (and crazy stat of the year, he's scored more runs than Mullins or Rutschman). If you believe that the only way to learn to hit major league pitching is by facing major league pitching, let him hit. The bats are hot enough right now to carry two or three cold(er) bats. In recent years they often seemed to be carrying five or six slumping hitters at once, so I don't see the pressing need so long as they're scoring runs and winning games.

I noticed that, I think they have been selectively framing the hose in broadcasts. If the team want the whole thing shown on TV, all they need to do is put a SuperBook Sports logo on the funnel part.

One of the most encouraging signs to me was on Saturday with two runners on when he drilled a ball inside the left field foul pole, narrowly missing a big homer. He held on from a 2-2 count after that and drew a walk to load the bases. Last year, I’m convinced he would have hacked his way right out of that at bat.

Also, I can’t believe he nearly hit two three-run homers in that first game yesterday.

So long as Mateo keeps hitting, Bichette can have all the ASG votes he wants, who cares. It’s not like the best albums win Grammys.

My favorite OH user name is from a friend of mine, Owen21. If you know, you know.

I completely agree with the first four points here. But if a 1-2 pick playing first can mash the ball? I’ll be able to get over any misgivings very quickly.

I think you keep him for now and then if he stays this hot, trade him with a year+ left to maximize the return. I’m not convinced this club will lock anyone up long term, so get what you can for him. I kept waiting for him to start flailing at everything once more, but I read how he overhauled his swing in the offseason, got rid of his leg kick, staying on the ball and pulling it more. And so far it’s remarkable. He’s swinging at nearly 25% less pitches outside the zone, and he’s top 75 in MLB in both average exit velo and hard hit ball percentage. He’s a hell of a lot of fun to watch, that’s for sure.

It felt like we got away with one today. Hopefully some rest does Felix some good.

Not if you ask Davey Lopes.