OnlyOneOriole
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8 minutes ago, Fiver6565 said:
First of all Stowers is in the majors. Perhaps you missed his 3 hit 4 RBI game. The reason that Heston and Mayo aren’t in the majors is because other young players are instead. IE Cowser and Gunnar and Westburg and Stowers et al. There are only so many roster spots
Mayo needs work on the defensive side. Kjerstad is straight up blocked
This narrative that ME simply doesn’t want to play the prospects he worked so hard to accumulate is just so tired and lame.
Stowers has barely played on this team the past 2 years. Heston as well.
Mayo never.
Elias is like Chris Ballard with the Colts. He loves his 'old vet' guys.
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1 minute ago, Frobby said:
Don’t know what’s going on with the relievers, but there’s plenty of pitching talent in Aberdeen IMO. Portes, Chance, De Leon and Baumeister, among others, are all legit prospects IMO. The team has a 3.58 ERA, 3rd in the Sally League, while having the youngest staff in the league.
I would agree. For some reason Elias bro.....as good as he is....has a giant mind block when it comes to promoting your own players.
From A to AA to AAA, it almost seems as if he would rather play vets who have struggled for years on other teams rather than players who have performed for the Os in the farm system for many year as well. It is very strange.
Stowers and Heston and Mayo as well. It is very strange. It is almost as if he hates the young guns.
Yet if you look at sports like the NFL, hockey, the PGA tour, the NBA, and even the PBA tour, it is all about the young guns.
Athletes these days are much more athletic and ready to contribute compared to 30 or even 20 years ago.
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29 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:
He must play. Now..Lefties or righties...I dont care.He puts the bat on the ball...thats what we need, fewer K's more contact...
100%.
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59 minutes ago, bpilktree said:
He threw 2 innings against us in April and nothing over 96 mostly 94-95. Today every fastball and sinker was 97-100. He was clearly overthrowing to try and impress but that backfired badly.
The issue I had was even when the speed gun says he was throwing with that much velocity?
It didn't look like it.
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Great win today, actually the last 3 days. Team win but Suarez really came through.
Game ball to him!
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18 hours ago, Frobby said:
5/23, Geoff Arnold to Jorge Mateo: “What does it say about the resilience of this team that you’re able to win this one after a tough series in St. Louis”?
The answer I would have liked to have heard: “it really doesn’t say anything about it. You know the White Sox suck, right? And we almost blew it anyway!”
Pretty much.
Back in the day (90s) we were even taught as college athletes to say as little as possible while saying as much as possible.
I have watched a lot of the Hard Knocks shows and every team these days has a complete coach or mentor who advises the players in how to answer questions. That is why they all sound alike.
I always admired P Manning and guys like Richard Sherman for actually answering questions in a non robotic way.
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Back on topic since I knew that post I made would send many of you off into a 10/10 conniption fit and make you lose your minds....JH was 1 out of 5 tonight with a HR.
Still didn't like the swing as it looked exactly the same as what he has done all year, but a HR is a HR.
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I am happy they won tonight. Against the White Sox.
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3 minutes ago, Jagwar said:
Here's the thing... and please understand that I only have HO posts to go on. You talk about yourself... a lot. You talk yourself up... a lot. Why not keep all of that to yourself?
I try to give real life experience behind my opinions. As in I actually played the sport.
So many people here are 125 or 300 pounds and have never played a sport in their lives, and yet talk as if and put down others like they are a be all and end all expert.
It's fake. Just like 90% of the internet is. I am not fake.
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8 minutes ago, ChuckS said:
Aren’t tennis and baseball both spring sports in high school?
Yes. At least in MI. I would practice every other day for each sport.
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54 minutes ago, Frobby said:
Let’s be clear. What people took exception to was your absolutely absurd assertion, last August 12, that the Orioles might not make the playoffs. That was a ridiculous position. You also said “and that is OK.” And no, it wouldn’t have been OK to miss the playoffs given the position the O’s were in on August 12. And they didn’t, not even close. They clinched playoff spot with two weeks left to play.
I don’t know anyone who thought the odds were in favor of the Orioles winning the World Series. Of course, we hoped they would. But it wasn’t a surprise to many when they didn’t.
Here’s the thread if anyone is masochistic enough to re-read it.
Let is not forget that you were the biggest proponent of the Os NOT resigning Nelson Cruz. In fact you argued that as if your life depended on it. I was the complete opposite. I wanted him resigned PERIOD.
I will never forget that because of the complete insanity how STUPID it looks for you.
Pepperidge Farms remembers as well.
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51 minutes ago, Frobby said:
Let’s be clear. What people took exception to was your absolutely absurd assertion, last August 12, that the Orioles might not make the playoffs. That was a ridiculous position. You also said “and that is OK.” And no, it wouldn’t have been OK to miss the playoffs given the position the O’s were in on August 12. And they didn’t, not even close. They clinched playoff spot with two weeks left to play.
I don’t know anyone who thought the odds were in favor of the Orioles winning the World Series. Of course, we hoped they would. But it wasn’t a surprise to many when they didn’t.
Here’s the thread if anyone is masochistic enough to re-read it.
I said repeatedly that the chances are the Os will make the playoffs. I said that over and over and over. As in there is a chance they may not but more than likely they will.
What I said for certain was that the Os would not win a playoff series and the WS. Which was 100% spot on.Any questions?
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9 minutes ago, Jagwar said:
I swear, you're like the Zelig or Forrest Gump of the Hangout. Someone could post something about rocket science, and you would respond that at one point you were a NASA engineer working in the space shuttle program.
LOL Believe it or not I have lived a pretty varied life. I have no reason to lie and am not just interwebs boasting. In fact lots of times when I hear or see people that have not lived the life that I have I often wonder.....why? It seems normal to me.
Because in no way shape or form do I think I am special. In fact there are many athletes way more athletic than I am or many people who are smarter.
Grew up playing sports all day every day from the time I walked out the crib. Mainly because of my dad. Loved the Colts and Orioles even though I grew up in MI.
Was a very good athlete but never 'great' in one single sport. But could and still do play almost any sport there is very well. All state tennis and baseball and all city bball. (misspoke on the earlier post as far as all state bball)
Got my BA and MBA in econ from MSU and did nothing with it. Owned and trained race horses for 20 years. Why? Because I love horses.
Moved to CA 14 years ago.
Still golf to a scratch handicap and bowl in the regional PBA tour here on the west coast. Also lift and work out 5 days a week.
As for a living I day trade stocks and am a public company consultant and have done that for 20 years now and then but very seriously the past 12 years or so since I moved to CA.
It really is nothing great or special. I mean I own a multi million dollar house, 4 nice cars, have a great wife and daughter, but other than my daughter none of it really means anything.
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10 minutes ago, Jagwar said:
I'll agree that his swing was not good in his SSS, but with the caveat that he still has time to make adjustments (or not).
Agree.
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Just now, andymax said:
Which successful professional baseball team do you work for? Obviously you have a keen eye for swings, teams should be beating down the door for your services.
I have played 2 pro sports, have a 225 PBA bowling average, am a scratch golfer, and was all state in tennis, basketball, and baseball as a HSer.
My dad was the baseball coach for a big 10 U and coached players like Mike Schmidt.
I know what a fluid swing is, whether that be in baseball or tennis or bowling.
In no way shape of form is JH going to be successful using that swing from that video in MLB. In fact we saw that last month.
Argue all that you want.
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Just now, Yossarian said:
It's a travesty to have a team ERA in the month of May (so far) of 2.74 and to only have a 10-8 record. With that type of pitching, you would hope to play well above .500 baseball. This offense has been so depressing to watch lately.
Bingo.
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1 minute ago, DrungoHazewood said:
It's a little odd that a team that is made up overwhelmingly of home grown players never wants to play their homegrown talent in the majors.
I know you are being sarcastic but I totally agree!
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5 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:
You are reading far too much into less than 200 PAs. I guarantee you that virtually no MLB GM is going to assess that Santander, Hays, Mullins and the rest are washed up and need to be jettisoned out the nearest airlock.
Coming into 2024 Anthony Santander's career OPS was .766. Add in this supposedly career-threatening six-week down stretch and it's fallen all the way to .761.
Eddie Murray had 13 different months with 100+ PAs and an OPS lower than Santanders' current .695. Cal had 17. In August of 1995 Cal had a .606 OPS. I'm sure if social media had existed then the calls for him to be tossed overboard would have been deafening.
Eddie Murray was a TALENT. We all saw that. Every player goes through slumps but he was special.
Tony? Good player. He is ok. But are we really saying he is not replaceable? He.....is nothing special and he is VERY replaceable by 50 other outfielders in MLB, as is our entire OF lineup when Mullins and Hayes start.
Which is what I have been saying. Our OF and DH have been killing us....for almost a year now.
Our starting pitching has been elite. Hitting? Not so much.
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5 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:
Ownership was too cheap to keep Weaver!
Greatest manager ever. I met him at the Renaissance center in Detroit while having breakfast when the Os were playing the Tigers as a 7 year old kid and I still remember shaking his hand.
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5 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:I didn't say that at all. I just said most (perhaps all) fanbases, this one included, are reactionary and far, far, far less patient than the people paid to make decisions. I've been on the Hangout for over 20 years, and every three-game losing streak, like clockwork, brings out the Holy Crap Why Haven't They Made These Five Very Obvious Moves?!
Like I said in that other post, I'd love to have seen the constructive criticism that Joe Altobelli and Hank Peters would have gotten during the two 7-game losing streaks they had in 1983. "Can you believe that these half-wits are still playing 36-year-old Al Bumbry and his .643 OPS on May 23rd!!!! Why are they still playing this guy who clearly isn't a Major Leaguer anymore? Have they forgotten they have Mike Young and Drungo Hazewood at Rochester? Do we need to remind them? Glenn Gulliver has a .464 OBP and they're still running Leo Hernandez out there?"
Really hard to compare the athletic ability back then to now. Back then it is basically like AA or AAA compared to the athletes of today's day and age.
As far as the 3 game losing streak? I agree all teams have them and more. Nothing unusual. I don't care about that. My concern is more long term, and I have talked about this since last year..... as far as the Os brass seems to want to draft lots of good players, who do well in the minors, but then never want to play them in the Majors.
It seems as they get off on having the top minor league system without having the balls to go for it on the MLB level.
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21 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:
How could you even tell since he only has 34 MLB PAs? And it's not like everyone in AAA is way worse than everyone in the majors. They're still playing the same game, there are plenty of good pitchers in AAA. If you can hit in the high minors at 20, you can hit in the majors.
Well I mean I can tell when a swing is on balance and fluid.
That swing was not. He is good enough that he can overcome that against lesser AAA pitching. But even there he is struggling.
And against MLB pitching? Not so much.
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Just now, ledzepp8 said:
Saying what amounts to, "These guys suck and shouldn't have jobs anymore", isn't constructive criticism. It's going to be tough to find anyone on this board that wouldn't like to see more playing time go to the guys in AAA. But again, where do they play? You'd be hard pressed to find a GM that's going to just drop several proven veterans (who are struggling) for unproven talent on a team that just won 101 games and is on pace to win 100 this year. It would have been one thing to trade Hays, Mullins, Santander, Urias in the offseason, which a lot of us could have got behind. Once that didn't happen, these are the guys that are going to continue to play until the team isn't winning anymore.
But when the proven vets are not going to get you to the promised land? Why play them?
Again I will as this for the 50th time and not one person has answered.
All you are doing is stunting the growth of the youngsters who potentially could win you a WS but who may be hurt by not playing in the majors until age 26 when they could have had 2-3 years of solid MLB experience by then.
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3 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:
I don't know, did the '83 Orioles settle for being just good and not elite by continuing to play over-the-hill has beens who won't get any better like Al Bumbry, Todd Cruz, Rich Dauer, Benny Ayala, Tim Stoddard, Rick Dempsey and Jim Palmer? None of them were particularly good that year, and most were more-or-less done when they were fitted for their rings.
And you could make a good case that the 2024 Orioles have more talent than the '83ers.
I mean, that was a special team. Orioles magic remember? I can't explain that season other than....
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11 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:
It would be pretty challenging to write a more stereotypical overreacting fan on a messageboard post than this.
Do you guys realized that this poorly-managed team of over-the-hill chumps ?
For some reason you guys take what is constructive criticism that we think could help the O's as "we hate the orioles and they SUCK".
There is no middle ground for you guys.
Very strange. It is either one extreme or the other for you.
Tuesday, May 28: Orioles vs Red Sox
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Jordan Westburg is really good. I said this last year and he has done nothing to show me he isn't.
He is the type of player that will have a very steady and very long MLB career. Producing every year.