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What If Tillman Gets Hammered in Spring Training?

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If Tillman has a lousy spring, will they let him go or throw him out there every 5th day and hope for the best? 

And if they do let him go? I guess we would have a competition for the 4th and 5th spot among the current contenders for the 5th spot. I could see any of Wright, Cortes or Castro being fine in the 5th spot, but if one of them has to be the #4, we're in a peck of trouble. 

In spite of having a zillion pitchers in camp this spring, the lack of starting pitching depth is a huge problem  for this team.

And if one of the top 3 should get injured? Never mind.

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2 hours ago, mdbdotcom said:

If Tillman has a lousy spring, will they let him go or throw him out there every 5th day and hope for the best? 

And if they do let him go? I guess we would have a competition for the 4th and 5th spot among the current contenders for the 5th spot. I could see any of Wright, Cortes or Castro being fine in the 5th spot, but if one of them has to be the #4, we're in a peck of trouble. 

In spite of having a zillion pitchers in camp this spring, the lack of starting pitching depth is a huge problem  for this team.

And if one of the top 3 should get injured? Never mind.

Just because we have 35 pitchers in camp doesn’t mean that 25 of them have any business being in a major league camp except as practice fodder. 

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2 hours ago, interloper said:

He's safe as long as Bundy keeps getting hammered also. 

Not even close to the same situation. Bundy had a poor spring last year and well he was out best SP.  Tillman may be done. But I suspect they will give Tillman every shot.

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24 minutes ago, mdbdotcom said:

Okay, thanks, I feel better now.

On a serious note, even though I’ve always liked him the team has to be willing to walk away if he’s not performing. History shows that’s not normally the case, as with Jimenez, but they did cut loose Matusz for roughly the same amount.

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1 minute ago, Il BuonO said:

On a serious note, even though I’ve always liked him the team has to be willing to walk away if he’s not performing. History shows that’s not normally the case, as with Jimenez, but they did cut loose Matusz for roughly the same amount.

But they don't have a second round pick to bundle with Tillman.

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What if he has a great spring?    Will you concede he’s going to have a great season and the Orioles made a brilliant move to re-sign him?

Yeah, didn’t think so.   But just trying to put some positive vibes out there for a change.

Truthfully, he’d really have to look no better than last year and also be getting terrible results for the O’s to cut him before the season begins.    

 

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