HandsomeQuack

Gunnar is getting flak but Mateo should have made the play

He was speaking on the Angels making the playoffs

Vavra, Henderson, and O'Hearn, our three best players

The rare 4 strike walk

That's true, but 90+ percent of those opportunities are gimmies that any major leaguer should be able to handle. I was at the game so I may have missed some subtleties, but I don't think he had any challenging plays.

It has only been a couple days but Vavra has been starting since Stowers went down. And there is no one else on the roster who should logically absorb those ABs.

Cowser without question (slide Santander to everyday DH). Not sure where Westburg would find the ABs (don't think they would call him up strictly to platoon vs LHP).

Yup, with Stowers down it feels like the O's are one bat short of a lineup vs RHP. I guess it's a dead horse since it's the whole purpose of this thread but I don't see any reason Cowser shouldn't be up, unless the team is that concerned about Super 2.

Re: Top 100 lists, once you get outside the top 50, the margins become pretty thin. I forget who I saw say this, but there isn't a ton of difference in value between being ranked 50 and being ranked 150. Just looking at some Orioles, Coby Mayo was 36 on FGs, 69 on Baseball Prospectus, and unranked on the other major lists. Kjerstad was 80 on MLB's list and unranked everywhere else. Are those guys "Top 100" prospects? Heck, Cowser was ranked around 40 by most publications but completely left off by Keith Law and FGs. The lists are nice barometers for the level of buzz around some guys (and most importantly, nice content for us fans to consume and argue about before the regular season kicks off), but outside of the guys that are universally regarded as blue chip prospects, I wouldn't take them too seriously.

A little positional musical chairs from Hyde. And Henderson up to the 5-hole.

Also, I believe that the overall factor views every pitch as a binary ball or strike. Strikes called on a pitch two inches off the plate vs eight inches off the plate are treated as equally wrong, even though most people accept that close balls are going to be called strikes fairly often.

My gosh

NIce to see Felix looking sharp

He called game

3 times on base each for Ced and Adley!

Any way you can get em

Replay review, time to flip a coin

Not sure why they run Frazier with Henderson being the batter

What an awful throw

I'm pretty sure they openly gave out fanny packs years ago; I wonder if that term has fallen out of favor.

2 out of 3 baby!

Alright, Voth has run his course

And then there was O'Hearn..

Alright boys let's get some runs

this game..