Orioles Sign Araujo - Holmberg, Lefties

[Frobby]

5 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

So his stuff doesn't play in the strike zone?

Could be.     I think Mike Wright probably has a better chance of succeeding in the majors than Holmberg.

[Luke-OH]

42 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

So his stuff doesn't play in the strike zone?

I haven’t watched him but that’d be my guess. I wanted to point out the fine line you walk being a command over stuff pitcher. 

[Morgan423]

2 hours ago, Frobby said:

I’ll never understand why people get upset when we sign guys to minor league contracts.    It’s necessary, every team does it, and it’s got nothing to do with whether we also sign some established major league players to more significant deals.   

It's not anything about the deal itself.  It's probably just frustration that there are moves  that critically need to made for the starting rotation, but there's been no progress there... just a bunch of minor moves like this.   

[weams]

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If Holmberg sounds familiar, he made a June 15 start against the Orioles last season at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago.

Holmberg allowed one run and four hits in 4 1/3 innings in the White Sox’s 5-2 victory. Anthony Swarzak replaced him, worked 1 2/3 scoreless innings and was credited with the win.

Tillman started for the Orioles and allowed five runs and 11 hits in 5 1/3 innings to raise his ERA to 8.07.

 

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2018/02/taking-the-orioles-rotation-for-another-spin-1.html

[Redskins Rick]

On 2/7/2018 at 5:48 AM, weams said:

 

If Heyman says good pickup, that means, the opposite is true.