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1 hour ago, 24fps said:

Offhand I can't think of a single current Oriole who deserves more time to work himself out of a slump than Trey Mancini.  If the problem is Chris Davis at 1B, punishing Trey Mancini is illogical.  Perhaps someone with some clout should talk to the guy who keeps playing Chris Davis at 1B.

Punishing Mancini?   The idea is not  to  punish  Trey.    Its to help him get back on track.

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4 hours ago, Roy Firestone said:

I know Mancini's knee is fine because I PERSONALLY spoke to him at length about it.

And, of course, players always tell the truth about their injuries.

There is some evidence that his slump is not caused by injury.  He did have some multi hit games in early to mid May as Frobby has pointed out.

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20 minutes ago, wildcard said:

Stewart did not play last night which means he may be injured as reported here on the OH.  I have seen no injury report elsewhere though.

You will almost never see an injury report for the minors. Hays hasn't played in almost a week and there is no explanation why, unless they DL him.

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2 minutes ago, Legend_Of_Joey said:

You will almost never see an injury report for the minors. Hays hasn't played in almost a week and there is no explanation why, unless they DL him.

Hard to know what is going on with Hays now.   They could just be working on his swing.   He seems to have really messed that up this off season.

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9 hours ago, wildcard said:

Punishing Mancini?   The idea is not  to  punish  Trey.    Its to help him get back on track.

Mancini's slump began on May 16 if you use OPS as your yardstick.  At that time his slash line was .275/.343/.444/.787.  How else would you view a demotion if it occured ten days later?  Sending Mancini to AAA right now is way, way premature, and given the current dynamic in Birdland unjustified in the extreme.

It's a slump, nothing more at this point.

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16 minutes ago, 24fps said:

Mancini's slump began on May 16 if you use OPS as your yardstick.  At that time his slash line was .275/.343/.444/.787.  How else would you view a demotion if it occured ten days later?  Sending Mancini to AAA right now is way, way premature, and given the current dynamic in Birdland unjustified in the extreme.

It's a slump, nothing more at this point.

It's not like the Orioles need to replace a third DH to stay in the hunt.  And other than Stewart, there are no MiLB players that need to be in Baltimore yet.  And Stewart is injured. 

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On 5/27/2018 at 10:51 AM, Roy Firestone said:

No way do I send down Mancini. He's still hitting the ball hard, but its on the ground and he did hit a HR this week . Let him work himself out of it. His knee his fine, Don't mess with him. I would move Gentry or Rickard before I moved Mancini.

Not surprised you would stick with the poor defense slugger over the actual outfielders.

 

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12 hours ago, wildcard said:

Hard to know what is going on with Hays now.   They could just be working on his swing.   He seems to have really messed that up this off season.

I think there’s an extremely good chance that he’s been playing hurt all season.    Remember, he had some kind of injury to his shoulder early in spring training that required a cortisone shot.   The idea that he’s injured makes way more sense to me than the idea that he somehow decided to change the approach that led to him hitting .330 last year.    

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30 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I think there’s an extremely good chance that he’s been playing hurt all season.    Remember, he had some kind of injury to his shoulder early in spring training that required a cortisone shot.   The idea that he’s injured makes way more sense to me than the idea that he somehow decided to change the approach that led to him hitting .330 last year.    

That would explain not playing for the past week.

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