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weams Hangout Grand Counsel

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He looks like he's made a good adjustment on his pitch selection," Duquette said. "He's shown good patience at the plate and also the ability to hit the ball hard and with power. And defensively, he's caught the ball well. He's also stolen a couple of bases. But he's a proven major league hitter against left-handed pitching, and that's why we brought him up.

"He's already done it in the big leagues against left-handed pitching. And we wanted to add another right-handed bat to the ballclub."

The Orioles chose Lake over Dariel Alvarez, who's batting .271/.297/.423 with 22 doubles, 14 home runs and 64 RBIs in 110 games at Norfolk.

"Junior Lake is proven in the big leagues," Duquette said. "He's a .287 lifetime hitter and he's made an adjustment to become more patient at the plate. He's already proven that he can do it in the big leagues."

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Rojo13 Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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DD likes players who will take a walk. Lake seems to have found some plate discipline this season, which gives him an edge of Alvarez.

If nothing else, Junior Lake will be remembered as the man who enabled the Orioles to get rid of Travis Snider. That's a positive thing.

I sometimes ask myself, "Do people realize they are talking about actual human beings when they just gleefully mock these guys who are giving it there all? Imagine if this was any other business where 1/3rd of the employees are fired in the middle of the year."

YEs, extremely well-paid employees. Snider did just enough. He's got about $5 million in career earnings with 2.1 of that coming this year.

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You can't look at raw numbers when comparing PCL stats to the International League. The average OPS in the PCL is 64 points higher.

The Iowa Cubs and Norfolk Tides have similar records, have each played 111 games, but the Tides have outscored their opponents 415-349, while the Cubs have outscored theirs 516-502. That's 33% more runs in an average game for Lake's old team.

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He's nothing special. I mean I guess they just wanted someone cheap that's under team control.

SSDD.

Oh, come on. Did you see how that ball rocketed off of 3B for a double last night. Obviously, this guy's a keeper. Dan says he's proven.

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Oh, come on. Did you see how that ball rocketed off of 3B for a double last night. Obviously, this guy's a keeper. Dan says he's proven.

I think I read that he's been "a major disappointment to the cubs organization with exception to 2013" - Seems like its another DD reclamation project. He's cheap and under team control to like 2020.

Get use to seeing him play.

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You do want you want. This season is not over. O's could win the East or the WC.

The season isn't over but it is hard at this point for our GM to make a big impact. The fact is he had a brutal season. Any sort of competent OF play this year and we are leading the 2nd WC right now.

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The season isn't over but it is hard at this point for our GM to make a big impact. The fact is he had a brutal season. Any sort of competent OF play this year and we are leading the 2nd WC right now.

Not with a starting rotation that has only one guy with an ERA under 4.00.

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