I agree with you that his voice is audible to everyone ( mostly) on this forum . The only little detail is that I happen to be deaf . That’s why my settings have closed captioning on and I depend on reading , not voices
Philip , I get your point about Seattle not trading ANY pitching due to weak pitching in their farm system . They can’t match or fit our pitching needs , etc . All that I understand .
My question pertains only about Seattle , not the Orioles . Say you’re the GM of Seattle, how or what would you do to upgrade your offensive bats ? What trade assets do you have to offer to other teams ?
Or not promote him, which they probably wont. He has a lot do . needs to to get bigger and stronger, and improve his defense. dont see how he fits with this team right now. Even if you had injuries to Mateo and Urias, would not be surprised if Norby was in front of him. I dont think messing with his plate discipline changes any of this. JH is hopefully next year.`
i dont think they should trade him, but there is alternatives at 1B if Mayo came up and didn't pan out from the get go. OHearn, Urias and Santander even, not ideal but would be a decent fail safe. Again he wont be dealt anyways so no point of going further with it.
I agree with this but mostly because the strike zone is different in the minors. They can get used to the robo-umps and then get very frustrated up at the majors when the human errors occur.
Smoltz is generally a putz, but you summarized all the things he said after the “baby” comment. By “baby” I think he means treating every pitcher as an FI machine that can only go two times through the order in one direction at max effort. He wants more mediocre dudes that are naturally gifted to eat innings.
I think people forget how much we have had guys struggle when they first came up. Maybe you could trade Mounty in the offseason, but not in the middle of a pennant race.
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