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Where Are The Next Orioles Bullpen Arms Coming From?

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Considering there aren't any impact arms in the minors...probably free agency or via a trade.

What they keep trotting out there just isn't working. In relief numbers:

  • Hart - 4.32 ERA
  • Ubaldo - 3.46 ERA (4 games)
  • Wilson - 9.82 ERA
  • Nuno - 6.75 ERA
  • Crichton - 8.49 ERA
  • Verrett - 4.22 ERA
  • Wright - 6.75 ERA
  • Aquino - 27.00 ERA
  • Jackson - 7.20 ERA (DFA)
  • Yacabonis - 36.00 ERA (1 game)

Here are the *good* arms that aren't on the DL:

  • Bleier - 1.93 ERA
  • Castro - 0.00 ERA (2 appearances, in minors)
  • Givens - 2.61 ERA
  • Brach - 3.00 ERA

That's it, folks. So unless they call back up Castro and he's lights out...there really isn't anything in the minors that is going to help.

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10 minutes ago, esmd said:

Hart has been a big disappointment.  I thought he could be a LOOGY if nothing else, but he can't even seem to get lefties out anymore.

I don't mind Hart being a LOOGY.  In a deep pen with an average starting rotation he would be valuable, but we need guys that can go multiple innings.  Nobody is doing that successfully.  The only guy to do that was Asher and now he's not looking too good in the rotation.  

Castro just came up for Verrett.  Our next options are simple.  Tanner Scott and Lucas Long.  It's time to fire those bullets.  

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3 minutes ago, thezeroes said:

Tanner Scott has a 5.8 walk rate per nine innings.  That will not play well at the MLB Level. 

Lucas Long has a 1.5 Walk Rate per Nine plus a 7.6 K rate.  That may play in the show.

In his last seven appearances (21 IP) he has had one or zero walks in five of them.

He just may have figured something out.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=scott-000tan&type=pgl&year=2017

 

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Just now, Can_of_corn said:

In his last seven appearances (21 IP) he has had one or zero walks in five of them.

He just may have figured something out.

You mean like Kevin Gausman at the end of last season type figured it out or like the players at AA Ball became more aggressive and took less pitches??

Exposure at the MLB Level would be a good thing as far as development if he has figured it out but I would like to see some time at Norfolk for him before the show as those players may be a bit more mature in their batting eye.

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5 minutes ago, thezeroes said:

You mean like Kevin Gausman at the end of last season type figured it out or like the players at AA Ball became more aggressive and took less pitches??

Exposure at the MLB Level would be a good thing as far as development if he has figured it out but I would like to see some time at Norfolk for him before the show as those players may be a bit more mature in their batting eye.

I'd prefer that too, but do we have the luxury at this point?   We're pretty desperate for anything that might work.

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4 minutes ago, thezeroes said:

You mean like Kevin Gausman at the end of last season type figured it out or like the players at AA Ball became more aggressive and took less pitches??

Exposure at the MLB Level would be a good thing as far as development if he has figured it out but I would like to see some time at Norfolk for him before the show as those players may be a bit more mature in their batting eye.

I'm guessing that with the reports of his stuff and how horrendous his numbers were that the issue wasn't someone nibbling trying to get someone to bite.  It was someone who couldn't command his pitches.  To me that command is the only thing holding him back from being a bullpen guy, especially if reports of him being able to throw a CB that flashes plus are true.

I think you have to admit, his walk numbers have shown pretty stark improvement.  How sustainable it is we don't know.

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31 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

I don't mind Hart being a LOOGY.  In a deep pen with an average starting rotation he would be valuable, but we need guys that can go multiple innings.  Nobody is doing that successfully.  The only guy to do that was Asher and now he's not looking too good in the rotation.  

Castro just came up for Verrett.  Our next options are simple.  Tanner Scott and Lucas Long.  It's time to fire those bullets.  

No. Sorry. The magic left Hart. 

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19 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

In his last seven appearances (21 IP) he has had one or zero walks in five of them.

He just may have figured something out.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=scott-000tan&type=pgl&year=2017

 

That would be great.   I'd love to see us bring a pitcher up from the minors that I could at least anticipate being excited about seeing, as opposed to "I hope he isn't awful".

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