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Just now, TINSTAAPP said:

Really, the only thing they can do at this point is use off-days to skip the fifth starter and use a spot starter the rest of the time. There are no solutions to this problem.

Yeah, and somehow, not counting the day after Opening Day, we have ONE off day between the start of the season and the last day of April.   As few as  any team in MLB and fewer than the vast majority.   I don't know how that happens.   But we'll have more than any other team the last five months I guess.

Of course the weather is likely to give us some this weekend.

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4 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

No, it's sad that the Orioles didn't make the proper assessment on him after last season and then in the spring. It's embarrassing.

Yes. How did they not make sure he was able to deliver pitches with sound mechanics before signing him? Jim Palmer reminds us every inning he pitches how Chris is just not getting over top of the ball. It's keeping everything belt high, and giving his fastball that little cut where he can't locate at all. Same as last year.

How was this not noticed before his resigning? Did they not watch a showcase of him and just cross their fingers hoping he would be better?

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2 minutes ago, OldNewGuy said:

I don't think anybody here knows who was responsible for the decision to resign him. We have at least a 5 headed colossus making personnel selections. Who was it? Please raise your hand so we could know who to congratulate or blame.

One of Duquette's best qualities (at least apparently to me) is his lack of sentimentality.  I don't see him as having the slightest use for Tillman in 2018 - something he would have decided long before Tillman was ultimately re-signed.  You're right, we don't know who, but I think it's unlikely it was DD's idea, much less desire.

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1 minute ago, tntoriole said:

You could be right, but the GM gets the blame in my book anyway.  Dan’s name is still on the GM door.  Until he comes out  and says “You know what, I didn’t have anything to do with that”, then he gets tagged with it.  If he is going to stay in a job where he doesn’t make any significant decisions just for the money, then he gets the blame too.   Package deal. 

I’m sure he is going to throw other people under the bus. Great way to get a job elsewhere. 

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Tillman is clearly un-fixable based on how wide he misses the strike zone. By the time kid pitchers are on Pony league teams, they throw a lower percentage of pitches that miss the strike zone by 12 inches or more than Tillman has been over the past year-plus. Whether that is current painful injury or permanent damage injury, the man is physically incapable of doing his job successfully.

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2 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Yeah, and somehow, not counting the day after Opening Day, we have ONE off day between the start of the season and the last day of April.   As few as  any team in MLB and fewer than the vast majority.   I don't know how that happens.   But we'll have more than any other team the last five months I guess.

Of course the weather is likely to give us some this weekend.

Plus the GD 11am Boston Marathon game AGAIN!

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