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22 hours ago, esmd said:

The bottom line is that he has nothing to prove in the minors, and everything to prove in the majors.  Yet there he is, toiling away at Norfolk.  Bring him up and let him sink or swim.

He has a 14% CS rate at Norfolk. He's sinking in Norfolk. His game has gone backwards. Something is wrong and getting pounded in Baltimore may not be the best thing for him right now. 

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30 minutes ago, OrioleRedenbacher said:

Hess was on the pregame show yesterday and talked a little bit about the adjustments he's made after struggling.

Adjustments!? Impossible! The Orioles don't know how to help pitchers make adjustments!! :)

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1 minute ago, Ohfan67 said:

He has a 14% CS rate at Norfolk. He's sinking in Norfolk. His game has gone backwards. Something is wrong and getting pounded in Baltimore may not be the best thing for him right now. 

Maybe getting out of Norfolk may be the best thing for him right now?

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3 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Maybe getting out of Norfolk may be the best thing for him right now?

Maybe. Unless he's hurt, I expect he will be in Baltimore in September. But he sure as heck didn't go down and earn a promotion. 

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5 hours ago, Ohfan67 said:

He has a 14% CS rate at Norfolk. He's sinking in Norfolk. His game has gone backwards. Something is wrong and getting pounded in Baltimore may not be the best thing for him right now. 

That alone isn't an indictment of him or whether he should be promoted.  Maybe the pitchers are doing a terrible job of holding runners.  Maybe the dreaded TTTP is rearing it's ugly head, lol.

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1 hour ago, esmd said:

That alone isn't an indictment of him or whether he should be promoted.  Maybe the pitchers are doing a terrible job of holding runners.  Maybe the dreaded TTTP is rearing it's ugly head, lol.

So it doesn’t matter if he’s not hitting and not holding runners? He’s struggled mightily at Norfolk. 

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8 hours ago, Ohfan67 said:

So it doesn’t matter if he’s not hitting and not holding runners? He’s struggled mightily at Norfolk. 

At this point, no.  He needs to be learning on the job in the bigs.  Let Russell work with him on his catching defense.  Let Coolbaugh work with him on his hitting.  He's had success in the minors, he has nothing left to prove there.  They need to see if he can play at the major league level.  And let's be honest, they're essentially fielding a minor league team at OPACY anyway.  When they've already lost 90 games, they need to work on developing their young players to see who will and won't produce at the major league level.

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On 8/28/2018 at 5:32 PM, esmd said:

The bottom line is that he has nothing to prove in the minors, and everything to prove in the majors.  Yet there he is, toiling away at Norfolk.  Bring him up and let him sink or swim.

I think I agree with you.

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Sisco can't hit a curve ball, and I mean any curve ball, even really bad hangers in the middle of the plate

He'll be out of baseball in 18 months.

The fact that a guy can move through the O's system as a "prospect" with such a huge and obvious deficiency is really alarming.

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50 minutes ago, webbrick2010 said:

Sisco can't hit a curve ball, and I mean any curve ball, even really bad hangers in the middle of the plate

He'll be out of baseball in 18 months.

The fact that a guy can move through the O's system as a "prospect" with such a huge and obvious deficiency is really alarming.

I'll take that bet. 

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On 8/28/2018 at 9:06 AM, Frobby said:

It’s nice to see Hess regroup after getting knocked around a while.   

Games 1-5: 29.1 IP, 3.07 ERA

Games 6-12: 24.0 IP, 10.50 ERA

Games 13-16: 24.2 IP, 2.19 ERA

It would be great if he could get his ERA under 5.00 and keep it there.

 

Thank you for this simple but illuminating breakdown.

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Hess went out in style.

Only a solo home run with 2 outs in the top of the 6th inning prevented him from blanking the Astros while he was toeing the rubber tonight.

He did not walk a batter until there was one out in the top of the 7th inning (although he did have 1 Hit Batsman in the 3rd inning.)

 

 

21 OUTS: ) 7 Groundouts, 5 Flyouts, 4 Strikeouts, 2 Lineouts, 1 Popout, 1 Foulout, 1 Thrown Out Tagging Up from 2nd to 3rd

 

 

DAVID JAMES "D.J." HESS  ))))))) (vs. ASTROS, 9/28)

IP:ll7

H:lll 3 )) (1 Home Run, 2 Singles)

R:llll 1

BB:ll2 ) *

SO:ll4

Pitches: )l 91) (53)Strikes, )38 )Balls)

2018 ERA: )l 4.88  )  103.33 IP  (56 ER)

2018 WHIP: )l 1.384  )  103.33 IP  (143 H/BB)

2018 OPPONENTS BATTING AVG: )l .262  )  (106 for 404)

 

* )) Hess also had 1 Hit Batsman

 

PITCHES BY INNING

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91 ll(8 llStrikes, lll11 llllBalls)

15 lll(8 llStrikes, ll71 llllBalls)

81 lll(3 llStrikes, ll51 llllBalls)

13 lll(9 llStrikes, ll41 llllBalls)

11 lll(7 llStrikes, ll41 llllBalls)

16 lll(9 llStrikes, ll71 llllBalls)

19 lll(9 llStrikes, l10 lllllBalls)

 

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