Grade the Gausman Deal

[Catch 8]

I challenge you to name a worse organizational situation in professional sports.

First Prize: 2 Oriole tickets

Second Prize: 4 Oriole tickets

[drjohnnyfeva]

10 hours ago, ThomasTomasz said:

Considering the old Executive VP said it, we can't take it at face value anymore.  We have to wait it out and see who is hired as EVP of Baseball Operations, who they hire as GM, who they both hire as manager and the direction they take the development system.  Can they truly change just about everything?  Can they add more staff to the scouting department?  Two more were added before Duquette left-  Doug Witt and Rich Amaral- so what is going to happen with them?  

In my mind, the list of untouchable guys in the organization is very small.  John Wasdin should stay on as minor league pitching coordinator- he came from a very heavy analytics organization in Oakland, and has been key to the pitchers that we've drafted the past two years that have gotten good reviews from those in the know.  Alan Mills has done a very good job with some of these relievers, especially the ones transitioning from starters to relievers, and with Mychal Givens, he deserves to stay.  Ryan Minor and his staff at Frederick should stay, and Leyland's son should get a chance on the major league staff next year. 

Everyone else, to me, can be cleared out.   There is a rot in the Warehouse, and it's pretty expansive.  There is a reason we can't develop TORP pitchers, and it's not for a lack of not trying, or not drafting high enough.  Since Mike Mussina, the only pitcher we have successfully developed as a legitimate headline for a rotation was Erik Bedard.  That is a huge problem, and as far as I am concerned, people who have been around since Bedard was traded, in any capacity, should be gone.  

But the "EVP" didn't grant permission to state the direction of the club to himself, that came from ownership trying to control the story and steer it to addressing what they felt fans wanted to hear.  And since they have already done at least two things:

1- Hired personnel to work in the system, after saying the new GM was going to have the authority to run baseball operations and hire staff, and

2 - Failed to deliver in landing on their targeted players in the international market...

Clearly we are dealing with the same old same old in terms of how ownership runs this club.  All those statements in July were nothing more than lip-service.  I'm waiting for them to do something that demonstrates that this is going to be "different" and all I keep seeing is the same old bs.  Secretive operations, spin control, and poor marketing.  It remains a mess.

[JourneyFan]

12 hours ago, Catch 8 said:

I challenge you to name a worse organizational situation in professional sports.

First Prize: 2 Oriole tickets

Second Prize: 4 Oriole tickets

The Orioles seem to be run like Sears.

[bpilktree67]

13 hours ago, Catch 8 said:

I challenge you to name a worse organizational situation in professional sports.

First Prize: 2 Oriole tickets

Second Prize: 4 Oriole tickets

Dallas Cowboys

[NCRaven]

13 hours ago, Catch 8 said:

I challenge you to name a worse organizational situation in professional sports.

First Prize: 2 Oriole tickets

Second Prize: 4 Oriole tickets

Oakland Raiders

[Can_of_corn]

9 minutes ago, bpilktree67 said:

Dallas Cowboys

I would have gone with the Browns, but then they went and won some games this season.

[bpilktree67]

1 minute ago, NCRaven said:

Oakland Raiders

The Raiders dropped off faster then anyone i can remember.  They were one of the favorites to go to the Super Bowl then one sack later where dropped to the bottom with no QB and have spiraled downhill ever since.  On the field and off it.  They have traded their best players on the team and are basically starting over.  I still think they are in better shape then the Orioles because they have three first round picks next year.

[Ruzious]

3 minutes ago, NCRaven said:

Oakland Raiders

At least they're getting 1st round picks for the players they traded.  The NY Giants are getting 4th and 5th rounders.  I'll go with them for the moment.  

[weams]

On 7/31/2018 at 5:26 PM, Frobby said:

Simple poll.    Let’s see how it grades out.   

He got almost 10 million.

[Cumberbundy]

12 minutes ago, weams said:

He got almost 10 million.

We got the opportunity to buy the finest meats and cheeses the Dominican has to offer.

 

[Frobby]

As long as we’re dredging up old Gausman threads, I thought I’d remind everyone how they voted.  weams, ScGO’s and Section18 gave it an A.

[weams]

23 minutes ago, Frobby said:

As long as we’re dredging up old Gausman threads, I thought I’d remind everyone how they voted.  weams, ScGO’s and Section18 gave it an A.

If Dan were a Day Trader he could have retired that day. 

[byrdz]

A little surprise Gausman has been struggling this bad. His strike out rate is still up there though.

[Spy Fox]

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/can-the-reds-figure-out-kevin-gausman/

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Nor has Gausman been hit particularly hard, something else which can directly lead to a FIP-ERA discrepancy and something the pitcher has more control over. Gausman’s average exit velocity of 86.9 mph is actually two notches slower than in 2018 and better than his 87.7 mph over the five seasons for which we have these numbers. Overall, Statcast’s estimate from the velocity/angle data is that Gausman “should” have a .259 BA and a .449 SLG against. In actuality, it is a .290 BA and .467 SLG. In other words, Gausman’s not exactly a secret Cy Young candidate, but he’s been pitching a lot more like a league-average hurler than one with an ERA north of six.

 

[bobmc]

On 8/5/2019 at 5:35 PM, weams said:

If Dan were a Day Trader he could have retired that day. 

LOL and you and D would have jumped aboard that RV a few months sooner.