Valaika claimed again, Kline DFAd

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, atomic said:

Seems like a guy who might get claimed.    If another team had DFA'd him we would probably be picking him up. 

I don’t know.   He has a live arm, but isn’t young, is relatively inexperienced for his age and performed poorly in his brief major league stints.    I was a bit surprised he was our choice to be DFA but hopefully he’ll slip through.    

[MurphDogg]

1 hour ago, Going Underground said:

They also made him do the met and great at the B & O musuem. He went to the University of Virginia and is really smart.Said after baseball would finish his degree in kinesiology..

Yeah, he impressed me at the Q&A at the other event. I have a friend who knew him at UVA and described him as very un-jockish.

[tntoriole]

4 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

Expecting a deluge of posts about how letting a hard thrower with poor control go.

To which I reply:

Note the forlorn look in his eyes.  This must have been taken shortly after the Griffey homer.  Poor Brad just couldn't ever find the strike zone.

Pennington entered and threw two pitches. The first, a wild pitch, allowed a run to score. The second, Griffey's homer, brought three runs to the plate. Oates sent Pennington to the showers and O's fans responded by showering the young Indiana native with boos. 

"I was booing too," said Pennington. "We worked so hard to get the 6-3 lead, those fans have the right to boo."  

The O's demoted Pennington to the minor leagues the following day.

As for Griffey, the 24-year-old center fielder expressed relief after helping his team end its losing streak and compared his 1994 Eutaw Street longball to the exhibition shot that hit the Warehouse the previous season.

Said Griffey: "I hit this one harder." 

[Moose Milligan]

1 minute ago, tntoriole said:

Pennington entered and threw two pitches. The first, a wild pitch, allowed a run to score. The second, Griffey's homer, brought three runs to the plate. Oates sent Pennington to the showers and O's fans responded by showering the young Indiana native with boos. 

"I was booing too," said Pennington. "We worked so hard to get the 6-3 lead, those fans have the right to boo."  

The O's demoted Pennington to the minor leagues the following day.

As for Griffey, the 24-year-old center fielder expressed relief after helping his team end its losing streak and compared his 1994 Eutaw Street longball to the exhibition shot that hit the Warehouse the previous season.

Said Griffey: "I hit this one harder." 

I've yet to see a swing like that one.  From anyone, ever.  Griffey taking Pennington deep was something special.  

[Ripken]

Straightest fastball ever.  I had hopes for him once but have no desire to ever watch him pitch again.

[wildcard]

With a 96 mph fastball and two options left I think he gets claimed.  

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

14 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I've yet to see a swing like that one.  From anyone, ever.  Griffey taking Pennington deep was something special.  

Pennington also had a big ego for a pitcher that was a Mike Wright who could throw a little harder. Pennington mouthed to my friend one night in the bullpen before getting shellacked when he cam into the game. 

[Can_of_corn]

15 minutes ago, wildcard said:

With a 96 mph fastball and two options left I think he get claimed.  

Just get him some pine tar for that spin rate.

[Legend_Of_Joey]

6 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Just get him some line tar for that spin rate.

Is that the same stuff they use for the foul lines?

[Can_of_corn]

6 minutes ago, Legend_Of_Joey said:

Is that the same stuff they use for the foul lines?

Typo.

[Legend_Of_Joey]

5 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Typo.

I figured you were just a cyborg who never makes errors.

[HowAboutThat]

He was a second round pick in 2012. Must’ve been a really weak draft. I hope he got a very good signing bonus.

Maybe Frobby Will tell us about the other second rounders from 2012, so we can element or be grateful for what Kline was able to do with the big team.

meanwhile, Valaika must be really special.

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Philip said:

He was a second round pick in 2012. Must’ve been a really weak draft. I hope he got a very good signing bonus.

Maybe Frobby Will tell us about the other second rounders from 2012, so we can element or be grateful for what Kline was able to do with the big team.

meanwhile, Valaika must be really special.

800k.  No idea what you mean by a weak class.  He went 65th.  

[HowAboutThat]

1 hour ago, Moose Milligan said:

I've yet to see a swing like that one.  From anyone, ever.  Griffey taking Pennington deep was something special.  

To be fair, Griffey did that to a whole lot of pitchers.

[atomic]

13 minutes ago, Philip said:

He was a second round pick in 2012. Must’ve been a really weak draft. I hope he got a very good signing bonus.

Maybe Frobby Will tell us about the other second rounders from 2012, so we can element or be grateful for what Kline was able to do with the big team.

meanwhile, Valaika must be really special.

The whole 2nd round that year has produced a total of 10 WAR to date.  With Alex Wood having 11 WAR.  So he has more than 100 percent of the WAR from that round.  Elias drafted Nolan Fontana at 61 who didn’t play in the big leagues last year and had -0.2 WAR on his career.