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5 minutes ago, Philip said:

Isn’t Stewart bad?

He was good last year with the Orioles. He has been great with Norfolk this year, .303/.413/.558. He is exactly the type of player that should be up now so the Orioles can figure out what they have with him. He walks a lot and hits for enough power that he could be a reasonable corner outfielder / DH piece.

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10 minutes ago, LA2 said:

There are some OH'ers here who would say it is Smith and/or Broxton who are doing the blocking. Speaking of which, was there anything like a conclusion about Santander's ability to play CF?

Of course you can make that argument. Even with Smith gone you still have Santander in one corner OF spot and Mancini in the other. 

He really has not had enough action to make any judgments. 

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2 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

He was good last year with the Orioles. He has been great with Norfolk this year, .303/.413/.558. He is exactly the type of player that should be up now so the Orioles can figure out what they have with him. He walks a lot and hits for enough power that he could be a reasonable corner outfielder / DH piece.

Exactly. This is the kind of season to find out about him. 

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15 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

Of course you can make that argument. Even with Smith gone you still have Santander in one corner OF spot and Mancini in the other. 

He really has not had enough action to make any judgments. 

But if Santander can hold down CF then releasing Broxton is an option. That's why I asked. Then you have Mancini, Santander, Stewart, and Smith/Broxton in the OF, Wilkerson at second (if Villar leaves), and that guy at first with Nunez/Sisco at DH.

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4 hours ago, LA2 said:

But if Santander can hold down CF then releasing Broxton is an option. That's why I asked. Then you have Mancini, Santander, Stewart, and Smith/Broxton in the OF, Wilkerson at second (if Villar leaves), and that guy at first with Nunez/Sisco at DH.

I doubt the Orioles think Santander is any solution in CF. Of course on this team it doesn’t really matter.  Broxton and Smith could be dropped now. 

Once trade deadline passes we will see more changes. I guess Elias wants to see how things play out the next 16 days before he makes all his changes.  

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At this point we should not be heading into the offseason without having questions answered about Santander and Stewart. I liked the Smith pickup, but I don’t think we should let him block us from getting a look an extended look at Stewart.

What are we going to be, a team that had three straight 110 loss seasons, and couldn’t find ABs for their own first round draft pick?

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1 minute ago, mdbdotcom said:

Not at all. I'm hoping that's their rationale for not making the move now. I hope to see Stewart up in a week or two.

Why wait for a "groove". Does a "groove" mean anything?  He was in a "groove" earlier  this year and struggled.  Last year he wasn't in a "groove" when called up and did great.

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13 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Why wait for a "groove". Does a "groove" mean anything?  He was in a "groove" earlier  this year and struggled.  Last year he wasn't in a "groove" when called up and did great.

Beats me. I'd like to think of Groove as the second coming of Don Baylor.  We could use that.

Time for another cup of coffee.

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2 hours ago, mdbdotcom said:

I'm hoping they're just waiting for Stewart to get back into a groove before bringing him up.

Since our management is so metrics oriented, rest assured they must have a precise mathematical definition of what does and does not constitute "a groove", and historical numbers backing up the benefit of not bringing a player up before he has met the Groove Criteria.

Trust the process.

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9 hours ago, LA2 said:

But if Santander can hold down CF then releasing Broxton is an option. That's why I asked. Then you have Mancini, Santander, Stewart, and Smith/Broxton in the OF, Wilkerson at second (if Villar leaves), and that guy at first with Nunez/Sisco at DH.

Time to cut Broxton and Smith and replace with Stewart and Mason Williams.  Williams would probably be the best defensive CF option.  

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