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Per Roch: Roberts to rejoin Orioles this weekend


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At this point Id rather have Flaherty at second. Flaherty may be in the Orioles future, Roberts is not. It would be a shame for the club to defer to Roberts out of sentiment when Flaherty has started producing at the plate.

I would be in favor of DHing Roberts against righties, with Flaherty at 2B and starting Roberts at 2B against lefties with Valencia (or Reimold I guess if they are definitely calling him up at Valencia's expense) at the DH spot.

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I would be in favor of DHing Roberts against righties, with Flaherty at 2B and starting Roberts at 2B against lefties with Valencia (or Reimold I guess if they are definitely calling him up at Valencia's expense) at the DH spot.

This.

Why not use Roberts to improve the poor-producing DH spot instead of 2B where there's a larger chance of injury and we've already got a great defender in the field? At least against righties it makes sense. If Buck is actually planning to keep Casilla and Flaherty both then this may already be Buck's plan.

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I'll take the over.

I'd rather have Roberts at 25% then watch Fah i mean Flaherty bat.

Flaherty is hitting .294 in June and OPSing nearly .800. Personally I don't want to see him get sent down right now.

By the way that AVG is second on the team behind Hardy and the OPS is third behind Hardy and Davis for the month. Among regulars. Casilla is also higher but in only 18 ABs.

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Flaherty is hitting .294 in June and OPSing nearly .800. Personally I don't want to see him get sent down right now.

By the way that AVG is second on the team behind Hardy and the OPS is third behind Hardy and Davis for the month. Among regulars. Casilla is also higher but in only 18 ABs.

Agree.. I fear that BRob will be a distraction and will derail the development of Flaherty

BRob only has a career .760 OPS and he is now 35. Even if he was 100% I see .700 has the best he could OPS and with his weak defense I believe he will be a negative for the O's.

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Agree.. I fear that BRob will be a distraction and will derail the development of Flaherty

BRob only has a career .760 OPS and he is now 35. Even if he was 100% I see .700 has the best he could OPS and with his weak defense I believe he will be a negative for the O's.

I guess we will see how this all plays out. Maybe they will have Roberts DH some

Ryan play 2nd. Then switch them some too. Nolan doesn't need to be up at all.

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Agree.. I fear that BRob will be a distraction and will derail the development of Flaherty

... I believe he will be a negative for the O's.

I don't think Brian will have a big impact and I do think he is a little man playing a big man's game and will get injured. But I can'y go with this.

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Flaherty is hitting .294 in June and OPSing nearly .800. Personally I don't want to see him get sent down right now.

By the way that AVG is second on the team behind Hardy and the OPS is third behind Hardy and Davis for the month. Among regulars. Casilla is also higher but in only 18 ABs.

Yeah, ironically both Flaherty and Casilla have hit well in June, and especially well in the last week or so when it was announced that Roberts was ready to go on a rehab stint.

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Flaherty is hitting .294 in June and OPSing nearly .800. Personally I don't want to see him get sent down right now.

By the way that AVG is second on the team behind Hardy and the OPS is third behind Hardy and Davis for the month. Among regulars. Casilla is also higher but in only 18 ABs.

He still is only hitting 208 for the season with a 600 ops. Ok he is on a hot streak right now but I'd still rather see Brob then pulling out my heair with an automatic out when this streak cools.

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