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I'm sick of reading all the bickering about Reynolds as well, but I don't see a problem with this thread. It's in the MLB forum. There are threads here about Jeremy Guthrie and Erik Bedard as well...

But there is not a new thread every time they do something. It's just the tone of it. He is doing well, we get it. But maybe this was a wake up call that he needed, or maybe a new approach is working in Cleveland that may never have been implemented in Baltimore. I just know that if he were hitting .182 with two homers and nine RBI, probably some of the same people would be shaking their internet fists and talking about how dumb the front office was to re-sign him.

I was always one of his biggest supporters, but I am fine with him not being on the Orioles. He has some great streaks, but we also know that he is going to have some awful ones as well. And there probably won't be new threads that pop up every time he goes 0-4 with three strikeouts.

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If Mark Reynolds played like he is now when he was an Oriole, he would be in tonight's starting line-up in Baltimore against the Royals...

Reynolds left the door open for the Orioles to not re-sign him because of his inconsistent (at best) performance when he was in Baltimore. DD & BS had other options...

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Nice interview on the MLB - he said that long dinger was the best he's had because he had been plunked the AB before. Tito told him if he did "dong" to make a statement. He said he enjoyed watching it fly and then spit and stared at pitcher as he trotted it out. All good fun, he said, no hard feelings but guys don't like being hit in the head - intentional or not.

The homer reminded me of the one he hit against the Yankees that led to my favorite Gary Thorne call of all time.

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why did they let Reynolds go? DID NEITHER DAVIS OR REYNOLDS WANT TO DH ?

Why not?

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In 2012, in April/March he batted 143, slugged only 206. He heated up in May and then cooled off dramatically in both June and July...only coming back alive in August and first week of September...then falling apart again.

It was a numbers game. The O's felt Reimold, Betemit, and Valencia could match Mark Reynolds's numbers. I wish they brought Reynolds back, but who expected him to be this good to start the year?

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No one made this much fuss when we let Alfredo Simon and Matt Albers go.

No disrespect, but if you don't see the value of Mark Reynolds over Alfredo Simon and Matt Albers, you have a lot to learn. If your post was sarcasm, I apologize.

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But there is not a new thread every time they do something. It's just the tone of it. He is doing well, we get it. But maybe this was a wake up call that he needed, or maybe a new approach is working in Cleveland that may never have been implemented in Baltimore. I just know that if he were hitting .182 with two homers and nine RBI, probably some of the same people would be shaking their internet fists and talking about how dumb the front office was to re-sign him.

I was always one of his biggest supporters, but I am fine with him not being on the Orioles. He has some great streaks, but we also know that he is going to have some awful ones as well. And there probably won't be new threads that pop up every time he goes 0-4 with three strikeouts.

Yeah, I agree with all that. I just saw that there was yet another Reynolds thread posted today in Orioles Talk, which is definitely ridiculous. But I don't think there's anything wrong with having a "Mark Reynolds 2013" thread in the MLB forum for people to talk about how he's doing. :)

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