Jim'sKid26
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What do we know about his current catch and throw skills? My recollection is that he was not a defensive wizard as a youngster. Have these improved? I also recall some questions about conditioning and the ability to be behind the plate during the Dog Days of summer.
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Big day for Bradish. Here's to 3 IP with 40+ pitches. In PRP we trust....
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I've always been wary of the injury bug and its effect on elite catchers. I'm in the camp that says ride him hard and don't extend him. Get as much value out of his time before FA. Spend the money extending Henderson, Holiday and Cowser.
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9 minutes ago, Just Regular said:
Orioles pitching seems to be leaning into Yield HR, not Walks - MLB best in lowest walk rate by a nice margin entering today.
2nd half 2023 Grayson smothered HR, but he's coughed up a few so far. The Twins are a HR oriented offense, so I'd guess 1 HR or less becomes a good outing.
Along this line of thinking, solo HRs happen when you are pounding the strike zone and limiting walks. When you have stuff like Grayson pounding the strike zone makes total sense. These are MLB hitters, after all, you will yield a few long balls. It's best not to have men on base when you do it.
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2 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:Of course. There are at every level. Not sure your point.
Not entirely sure what yours was either.
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There appears to be a reasonable number of " organizational space fillers," at Bowie as well.
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2 minutes ago, interloper said:
He's saying you can make the argument to promote any one of these guys, and he's right. I don't see anywhere where he's clamoring to promote them all at once - which is why the premise of the OP is "what would you do" not "here's what I would do".
I would prefer not to argue semantics with you. Can we agree to disagree?
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2 minutes ago, interloper said:
Huh? The OP is not at all advocating for bringing up all 4 guys at once.
The direct quote is " We have 4x guys in AAA ready to be promoted... " you can interpret that as you see fit.
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Absolutely nothing.
The initial assumption of the OP is that there are 4 players ready to be promoted. I disagree.
1) Judging a player by his offensive stat line alone makes for poor decisions.
2) This completely underestimates the challenges of transitioning from AAA to MLB. (nearly every one of the blue chip players that the O's have promoted in the last 2-3 years have struggled in their initial promotion to the MLB)
3) This completely underestimates to skill, experience and defensive prowess of the current players on the O's MLB roster.
4) Holiday is currently making the transition now, as the #1 prospect in baseball, and has struggled. Having one prospect at a time struggle in transition allows for a competitive team at the MLB level. Having 4 prospects struggle all at once could be a disaster.
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2 hours ago, ORIOLE33 said:
And You could say the exact same thing about Gunnar.
And you would be wrong.
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15 hours ago, baltfan said:
Lottery ticket that isn’t working out. I am afraid that Bradfield might work out simirly in terms of his hitting. If these big time programs can’t develop these guys, it seems it’s likely they won’t develop.
This makes almost no sense. I mean both were SEC guys who went to Vanderbilt but the similarities stop at that point. Young's claim to fame was an excellent shortened 2020 when he was a freshman. He played 18 games that year.
He then played 61 and 56 games at Vandy the next two years. The best he could do at the plate was .253/.344/.559 as a sophomore 2021. When he had 16 HRs and 15 2Bs. It was that year in May that he hurt his shoulder on a head-first slide into second. He ended up with shoulder surgery after the season and has never been the same player since.
Bradfield played 3 full seasons of 67, 62 and 62 games. His stat lines are:
2021: .336/.441/.414
2022: .317/.415/.498 with 8 HRs, 10 2Bs and 5 3Bs
2023: .279/.410/.429 with 6 HRs, 13 2Bs and 2 3Bs
During those 3 years he stole 47, 46 and 37 bags.
Young was planning to leave Vandy at the end of 2022 and transfer to LSU. At the time of his signing with Baltimore he was not considered one of Tim Corbin's top players. He was drafted in the 17th round, as an overslot pick. Many would say a "lottery ticket."
Bradfield is a Vanderbilt Baseball icon. He was a human highlight reel in CF. The folks in Nashville still talk about some of the plays he made. He was drafted in the first round (17th player overall). Time will tell on his eventual place in MLB.
My point is that they are very different players with very different pedigrees and injury histories. I'm not sure there is much relevance to comparing them.
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So the Pythagorean winning percentage would be 72%. So we should be 7-3.
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3 minutes ago, clapdiddy said:
I'm not sure about that last sentence. Their starters have no track record and look like they totally rely on sweepers and breaking stuff. Once hitters start leaving that stuff alone, I think they will get hammered.
It depends on if they can throw the breaking stuff for strikes. Haven't you heard? The FB is now thrown less than 50% of the time league-wide.
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@Roy Firestone you have a distinct role and you play it well. No need to apologize. We all appreciate you.
Some of us want the young whippersnappers to get off our lawn. You just want them to hit the damn ball!
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5 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:
DJ Stewart had a dong last night.
I suspect he's had it his entire life.....
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If you like Big Thief, this is an interesting departure for their lead singer. Huge Adrianne Lenker fan.
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1 hour ago, sportsfan8703 said:
The dude is a horse. Doesn’t walk hitters. Doesn’t play around. His ball seems heavy. It reminds me of when we had Kevin Brown for that one season.
Burnes is the one we should extend.
The Dude abides....
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Interesting that the OP is focused on the lineup. What about pitching? Hopefully this is the new frontier for orals player development.
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The kid has a prototypical pitcher's build. He was 6'4" and 190 lbs out of HS. He's going to grow into being a big boy. He just turned 20 on Saturday. Really projectable build.
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Forret was a well known HS pitcher in the Charlotte, NC area. He's from Indian Trail, NC which is just outside of Charlotte and played at Providence HS. They won the 4A state championship in 2022, they were 34-0 that year. He went to JC in Florida instead of going to ECU where he was verbally committed. He was a beast in HS. I've seen him pitch a bit. He sat 92-93 touch 95 as a senior with a hammer curve. You could tell he was going to pitch at the next level. Fun kid to watch.
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15 minutes ago, OrangeTurtle said:
The new board layout where you have to read a paragraph of the last post, in the list of threads, is awful.
The poor decision doesn't surprise me, but should be discussed. This format is unreadable.
A considerate and much more appropriate approach to this issue might have been a PM to @Tony-OH. In that setting you could have rendered your opinions without appearing to be inconsiderate, boorish and unappreciative. But you do you.
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Really good start today for Kremer. Sad that the offense let him down. He really looked good today. Threw strikes. FB was a weapon. 7 IP, 5 hits, 6 Ks and no walks. No ER. Really liked what I saw from him.
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31 minutes ago, Frobby said:
I wouldn’t lump 2022 and 2023 together. 2022 was a down year for offense around the league. The average OPS league wide was .707 and for CF it was .688. So, Mullins’ .721 that year was good for a 107 OPS+, 111 sOPS+.
By contrast, 2023 was a better offensive year league-wide, and even though Mullins’ .721 was identical to the year before, the average league-wide was .734 and for CF it was .730. Mullins had an OPS+ of 102 and sOPS+ of 97.
The years also were different in that Mullins was healthy in 2022, whereas in 2023 he missed a lot of time and his injuries came at a time when he was hitting well and disrupted him.
So, long story short, I don’t know what’s in store for Mullins in 2024. I’m certainly not ready to say he “has trouble staying healthy” just because he had some nagging injuries last year. Maybe it’s a trend and maybe it’s not. (And yes, I know he missed a bit of spring training with a hamstring strain. I don’t care about that.) I wouldn’t be surprised if Mullins had the 2nd best season of his career, nor would it surprise me if he declined for the 3rd straight season. We’ll see how it goes.
A couple of questions along that line of thinking:
1) Is there anyone on the team currently who you would feel comfortable giving the majority of the CF job to if you had a decent trade offer for Mullins?
2) Is Mullins still a threat to steal bases and how many do you see him producing in 2024?
3) Same question as #2 but for HRs?
4) What do you need to see from EBJ in the minors to trade Mullins at the break?
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11 hours ago, Sports Guy said:
I could see the Os start to go the HS route with so many guys ML ready or close to it.
With this being a down draft, I would like to see them take some big swings early at some high upside guys.
This would challenge a pitching development program that has not, at least yet, produced much of anything. (I will freely admit that I have neglected to consider GRod in this statement). While I agree with you, this leads the franchise in an entirely new direction. Can they hope to be as good developing pitchers as they have been hitters?
Of course, none of us are technicians about hitting...but what can the Orioles do about Holliday?
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Keep putting his name in the lineup. He's gonna hit.