Hunter Harvey headlines 1st spring cuts, but no surprises

[Tony-OH]

http://www.orioleshangout.com/2019/03/03/no-surprises-in-1st-round-of-spring-cuts/

[Moose Milligan]

Thanks for the writeup and the synopsis...synopsises.  Synopsi?

I think Harvey has been one of the more pleasant surprises so far.  Yes, he's healthy but the velocity is there, too.

In the pic Tony included, he looks like he's filled out a bit more, too.  Still skinny, but there looks to be some more weight there.

[milbest77]

I thought you meant that Jim Hunter headlined 1st spring cuts. Rats

[HowAboutThat]

Every time I read about Lee doing badly, I think about the very successful year Andrew Triggs had with Oakland after we dumped him so we could keep Lee. Triggs has been pretty injury prone since that year, but even if he never gets back, He did more than Lee ever will

[waroriole]

Poor wildcard, Yaz is gone already 

[Ripken]

28 minutes ago, waroriole said:

Poor wildcard, Yaz is gone already 

There's nothing there.

[Moose Milligan]

A haiku for @wildcard

 

wildcard dreams of Yaz

shades of grandfather he's not

broken hearts in spring

[luismatos4prez]

11 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

A haiku for @wildcard

 

wildcard dreams of Yaz

shades of grandfather he's not

broken hearts in spring

In my accent wildcard has 3 syllables. 

[Moose Milligan]

Just now, luismatos4prez said:

In my accent wildcard has 3 syllables. 

Dunno, I count two.  

[SteveA]

Dubroff reports that Kremer was also reassigned to minor league camp.

[Tony-OH]

1 hour ago, SteveA said:

Dubroff reports that Kremer was also reassigned to minor league camp.

Yeah, the initial reports did not include him. I updated him as well now.

[PaulFolk]

On 3/3/2019 at 7:00 PM, Philip said:

Every time I read about Lee doing badly, I think about the very successful year Andrew Triggs had with Oakland after we dumped him so we could keep Lee. Triggs has been pretty injury prone since that year, but even if he never gets back, He did more than Lee ever will

Triggs has a career 0.5 WAR and hasn't amounted to much. I don't think it was really some huge mistake in the grand scheme of things.

[HowAboutThat]

30 minutes ago, PaulFolk said:

Triggs has a career 0.5 WAR and hasn't amounted to much. I don't think it was really some huge mistake in the grand scheme of things.

What’s Lee’s career WAR?

Ive never said Triggs was the second coming, but his problems have mostly been injury-related, and his good year would have been valuable for us, and remains superior to anything Lee has done, or promised to do at the time Triggs was let go. It’s moot now, because the guys who made the decision are gone, but still rankles.

[HowAboutThat]

2 hours ago, PaulFolk said:

Triggs has a career 0.5 WAR and hasn't amounted to much. I don't think it was really some huge mistake in the grand scheme of things.

Let me clarify that my issue isn’t with that move by itself, but with the overall handling of pitching in general during the previous regime. Fortunately the old regime has gone into that dark night, so it’s moot.

having said that, it is questionable to complain about the departed player having only .5 WAR when the one kept in preference has none at all.