Legend_Of_Joey

https://twitter.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/1659000018945167366?s=20

You missed a perfect chance at diving into some KBO.

In all seriousness, for anyone wondering (and @Frobby with his lawyer notepad ready:) At the crux of this is someone feeling like they were mainly aggrieved due to me disagreeing with them in one thread, so I decide, 2 days later, to “get back at them” by giving them a single warning point in a completely different thread, for a reply they made. Was this person banned? No. Did they get a point, which has been given to others for the same infraction and the “hey, knock that off” warning? Yes. Ladies and gentlemen of the Orioles Hangout jury, if I am guilty of anything, it for merely trying to keep a comment towards another poster from going out of control. Which, I guess with this thread being on page 13, might have caused that to fail horribly. I do bring an expert witness. @Can_of_corn How many times did we disagree on two certain catchers that the Orioles once had. One currently plays for the Rockies and one plays for the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League. How many warnings have I given you? If he can avoid a point for “disagreeing,” then anyone can avoid a point for disagreeing with me. I rest my case. You all can go back to bantering until Tony comes in and wonders what the hottest new thread on the site is about…

Should I feel honored or horrified that a thread with my name in the title has surpassed one about Ohtani as a rental option?

Does this mean I’m being sent to AAA to work on my point control?

Your comment in another thread had nothing to do with anything in here. You could have also PM'ed me to ask about it. But if you feel wronged, please feel free to contact @Tony-OH

I didn’t watch any of the games, but I’m serious on this part: Did they ever actually show Torrens in the dugout? Can we even confirm he was AT the stadium for any of these games?

Please also be sure to go tell Brett Cumberland not to feel bad when he hit Tyler Zombro with a line drive two seasons ago that caused Zombro to go into a seizure almost immediately…

Please do not disrespect the Orioles legend.

If that's the case, we might still have gotten Mancini and Walker, just at a discount. Trumbo = Davis Mancini = Trumbo Walker = Mancini

Texiera had Scott Boras as his agent, even for the draft. Would Peter have entertained that?

Trumbo only had 2 full season at first base, last playing in 2013. He was being sent to the outfield and penned in for "DH" at that point. Mancini is an interesting question. He came up in 17, then full time in 18. Could that have lead to Mountcastle being trade bait?

Going into the first few days of 2016, the Orioles had a potential decision to make: What do they do with slugging first baseman Chris Davis, who was suspended at the end of the 2014 season for the MLB drug test, who then led the league in both home runs and strike outs in 2015? What do they do with Christian Walker, who was on the 40 man roster and had only gotten 13 games in the MLB the last two seasons, but barely hitting over .100 at the time? Obviously, you sign Davis to the largest contract in team history. Nothing can go wrong with that, right? Right? Well… The Orioles opened up the budget, signing Davis to a team record 7 year, $161 million dollar contract, where he went on to hit 38 home runs (8th in the MLB) and striking out a league leading 219 times (32.9% of his at bats). Walker would invest in a nice house in Norfolk and spend the season there, only coming to Baltimore for Fan Fest, before being designated for assignment just prior to the 2017 season, bouncing from Atlanta to Cincinnati to Arizona. In 2017, Davis went on to slug 27 home runs and strike out 195 times (third highest in the American League), but at a rate of 37.2% of the time (leading the majors.) Walker would spend the entire 2017 in Reno, which is the AAA team for Arizona. Enjoying the Pacific Coast League launch pad, Walker his .309 with 32 home runs and earning the MVP title for the season. He got a few games with Arizona that season, hitting .250 with 2 home runs. Both ranked the same when it came to fielding stats and metrics. In 2018, Davis started the season hitting .150 and amassing 86 strike outs in the first 57 games, leading to him getting benched. He never picked it up, finishing the season with a .168 average, 16 home runs, 192 strike outs (4th best) in 128 games. He struck out a league leading 36.8% and had a 21 at bat hitless streak to end the season. That wouldn’t last, right? Walker slowed down a bit, hitting .299 with 18 home runs in AAA, getting some more time in Arizona to the tune of only .163 with 3 home runs in 34 games, but showing some good defense and never really getting a chance with Paul Goldschmidt holding down the first base bag. In 2019, multiple things happened. Davis set a MLB record by keeping his hitless streak going, finally ending it after 54 at bats. It didn’t get much better, as Davis hit only .179 with 12 home runs and 139 strike outs. Davis also got into a verbal and almost physical confrontation with Manager Brandon Hyde, something that was captured on camera in the dugout during the broadcast. Walker, meanwhile, won the starting first baseman job for Arizona and enjoyed it. Hitting .259 with 29 home runs, Walker also showed off the glove, leading all of the National League first baseman with 9 defensive runs saved and 139 assists, which was tops in the entire MLB first baseman. 2020 rolled around and the season got shortened due to the pandemic. Davis played in only 16 games, hit .115 with no home runs then stepped in the infamous “Ubaldo pothole,” citing a knee injury with his season ending. Walker ended up with a .271 average with 7 home runs. Ryan Mountcastle will enter the chat here and enjoying a .333 average and 5 home runs for his debut season. However, Mountcastle spent more time in the outfield than at first. 2021, Davis starts off the season with a back injury, which turns into hip surgery, which then leads to his retirement. Walker, meanwhile, hit .244 with 10 home runs, missing some time with an injury himself. Mountcastle spent more time at first (thank God) and slugged .333 with 33 home runs (he likes “3” apparently.) 2022, Davis is on his “Bobby Bonilla Day” celebration status, while Walker goes on for a .242 average and 36 home runs, with 78 assists and 5 errors. Mountcastle hit .250 with 22 home runs at a revamped Camden Yards, but kept up with Walker on defense with 74 assists and 5 errors. It is funny how a simple “cause and effect” came into play here. While the Orioles went “all in” with Davis and booted Walker out, Walker didn’t swim right away. But what would have happened in 2018? Instead of calling up Corban Joseph (which was more of a “feel good” story with Caleb), what if they still had Walker and he started to show some a preview of his upcoming 2019 season? Would Mountcastle have been wandering around the outfield for a little longer before Hyde burned his glove and told him he was DH and if he saw him in the field, he would be fined? More importantly, what would have happened with the money the Orioles paid Davis? Larger contracts have since gone wayside in Baltimore, but if they had spent the money on other things and not still paying Davis to this day, how much different would the roster look? Even today, there are questions about Mountcastle at first. If the Orioles had kept Walker, would he have sealed that area for a few extra years and taken away a question mark there, providing some much needed stability? The world may never know.

You rang?

Yusniel Diaz, shockingly, has been on the IL for the AAA Dodgers since April 12th.

I mean, they never specifically said HOW they would expand the fan base….

Chance Sisco is back in America, signing with the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League.

Atleast he got more at bats than Diaz did last season...

Vavra has been working as a catcher, so there is their “emergency” guy. Anyone know when the Torrens bobblehead night is?

Did the person who designed the “Great Britain” WBC jerseys design this one too?

Austin Wynns was just claimed by the Colorado Rockies. He's apparently taking a tour of the NL West this season.

No one will join the taxi squad, as it is not a mandatory thing this season. As far as who gets sent down? No idea. Could be an IL stint as well too for some one.