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Honestly it's been a long time since I enjoyed an Orioles starting pitcher's performance as much as I did Bundy's last night. I think Ubaldo had a crazy good outing maybe two years ago where his stuff was fantastic that was almost as much fun, but I can't recall many other recent performances that were that much fun to watch. If he keeps it up, then his games will be must-see-TV for even casual Orioles fans. I was cautious and even slightly pessimistic about how he would do last year and was proven wrong. I was more optimistic this spring despite the ugly spring training stats, but last night was my wildest dreams sort of level performance. Very exciting. And thank goodness that Bundy's mechanics are so sound that he's about a billion times more likely to repeat great performances than Ubaldo! :)

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15 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

You are giving away your age.  I'm no spring chicken and I remember my father using that term when I was a kid.   Basically a breaking pitch that has almost all downward action and no sideways action.

Lol. Yep, I'm no spring chicken. That's for sure. 

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6 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Tillman has thrown one here and there now that you mention it.  

I only recall a bunch of straight fastballs and sliders from Bud Norris, but I'll take your word for it.  

I'm thinking against a more LH lineup we will see it less and the change up more.  I was surprised how few change ups Bundy threw last night.  I thought that was his best pitch last year.  Really seemed to fall off the table and great deception.  

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KLaw doubling down instead of admitting he might be wrong.

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Erich: Watched the Orioles game last night and Bundy’s stuff looked as good as I have ever seen. IF (big IF) he remains healthy, how high is his ceiling?
Keith Law: Except it wasn’t. His fastball was down from last year, and way down by the end of his start.

Remember KLaw left Bundy off his lists last year saying he wouldn't ever be anything more than a reliever at this point.

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22 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

KLaw doubling down instead of admitting he might be wrong.

Remember KLaw left Bundy off his lists last year saying he wouldn't ever be anything more than a reliever at this point.

Maybe Bundy threw harder because he was letting it go out of the pen Keith? 

I really don't care for Keith Law.

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16 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

KLaw doubling down instead of admitting he might be wrong.

Remember KLaw left Bundy off his lists last year saying he wouldn't ever be anything more than a reliever at this point.

While he doesn't need to back down based on one start, Law is almost completely incapable of admitting he was wrong about anything.   I suspect that's part of the reason he's not working in a baseball organization anymore.   Bundy could win the Cy Young and Law would find some reason why he wasn't wrong.  

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5 hours ago, Frobby said:

While he doesn't need to back down based on one start, Law is almost completely incapable of admitting he was wrong about anything.   I suspect that's part of the reason he's not working in a baseball organization anymore.   Bundy could win the Cy Young and Law would find some reason why he wasn't wrong.  

I think what Bundy did last year proved KLaw wrong.  Of course he might not have believed it himself and was just trying to be contraversial.

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6 hours ago, Frobby said:

While he doesn't need to back down based on one start, Law is almost completely incapable of admitting he was wrong about anything.   I suspect that's part of the reason he's not working in a baseball organization anymore.   Bundy could win the Cy Young and Law would find some reason why he wasn't wrong.  

K-Law sort of reminds me of the final passage of Animal Farm, when they look in the window and the pigs and the men sitting together at the table and they can't tell the difference anymore.  He seems to embody many of the traits of old school scouts and pundits that the analytics guys were supposed to being pushing back against.

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