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I’d rather listen to the Boston feed than all this negativity from Brown. What a jackass, even when talking about our own hitters.

I’m very hopeful Rodriguez performs up to his hype.

Another interesting factor is the risk/reward of drafting players from high school as opposed to players from the college ranks. There is only about a 14% chance that any first round high school drafted pitcher makes it to the major leagues, and less than 8% chance that they will play 3 or more years. For first round college drafted pitchers, those same numbers are 22% and 15%. Both Hall and Rodriguez were high school picks. Gibson, Kremer, Bradish, Irvin, and Wells were all drafted from college. https://sabr.org/journal/article/the-chances-of-a-drafted-baseball-player-making-the-major-leagues-a-quantitative-study/

No matter how good any pitcher is on paper, if they aren’t able to perform in the “crunch,” then a team has to figure out the best way to use him, or move on. I hope Rodriguez can figure it out.

He had shoulder inflammation.

Bradish pitched for Norfolk on Wednesday 3/15. 5 innings, no runs, 5 k’s and 49 pitches.

Three games in a row that Rodriguez can’t get through 4 innings….

Let’s see who comes to ST fit and ready to pitch. Let’s see who shows up overweight and out of shape. Let’s see who spent the winter improving their craft of sitting on a beach drinking. Once “we” see who is hungry and ready for a pennant race OR who is happy cashing checks, we will have a better idea of how the rotation will shake out.

I think what you saw was a young pitcher developing his craft and becoming more confident of his tools. Bradish has worked hard during the winter building himself up physically and experimenting with new grips and pitches. (Which is what all our pitchers likely did.) I am very excited to see how it all “shakes out” and how our young pitchers will help propel the O’s to the playoffs.

I don’t know about other players injuries, but Bradish was pitching with chronic shoulder soreness for quite awhile before it was noticed and addressed. After treatment and rehab, Bradish pitched his “2nd half” without chronic soreness.

We all know that twitter is a cesspool.

And just like that, the strike zone widened.

Can’t wait for robo umps. This guy is horrendous. Nothing up, nothing down, nothing on corners. Only meatballs in the middle of the zone are strikes.

Sometimes it is better to just say nothing than to blather on and on and on with meaningless statistics and reminiscing about games played 40 years ago.

What kind of call is that? If it is hit it’s a foul, if not it is a strike out. First base was occupied so you don’t get to run on a missed swing in the dirt.

Who the #@$% are our announcers? Such negative horseshit, I might as well listen to the Red Sox feed.

Needs to get his pitches down lower in the zone. Ump is not giving high strikes anyway. Plus he is getting squeezed side to side.

Jesus.

Totally STUPID base running.

STFU Kevin.

Kevin Brown talks about Adley playing in the Cape Cod league, but doesn’t know that Bradish and Adley were team mates with Falmouth.

Lyles is definitely looking fatigued, but to say he is erratic is a bit unfair. He has been a consistently solid inning eater all year long.

For me, whatever the Umps zone is, is fine…AS LONG AS IT IS CONSISTENT. It seems lately that the zone moves around from inning to inning, totally unfair.

A fun game to watch, but too many lost opportunities to list. BTW, Kevin Brown reminds me of the know-it-all who shows up to watch the game and spends the whole time telling you how great the opponent is. Really annoying.

My dad always let us stay up to watch baseball. He even took me out of school to watch day games from time to time. Those were special memories, watching Koufax and Drysdale at Chavez Ravine, with a Carnation chocolate shake in one hand and peanuts in the other. Baseball has never been boring to me…ever.