Orioles Thump Red Sox 11 - 5

[weams]

https://www.orioleshangout.com/2020/02/23/orioles-win-home-opener-11-5/

 

 

[REDMAN]

Nothing to get excited about, they were playing a AA team. 

[DrungoHazewood]

12 minutes ago, REDMAN said:

Nothing to get excited about, they were playing a AA team. 

Yea, the only spring numbers we should pay attention to are the bad ones.

[weams]

I was a fun great day in the sun with an Oriole-like team succeeding and an invading army of Red Sox nation staring bewildered at the whole event. 

[interloper]

Fun one. A little more up your alley, @Frobby? I still enjoyed every boring, mundane, scrub-laden second of the first game against the Braves. I'm starved for anything. I want to see all the scrubs. Let me soak up the futile at bats of Malquin Canelo. It's all good, it's all delicious. All of it. 

[Tx Oriole]

5 hours ago, REDMAN said:

Nothing to get excited about, they were playing a AA team. 

What’s the difference? O’s are too. 

[Camden_yardbird]

10 hours ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Yea, the only spring numbers we should pay attention to are the bad ones.

For fantasy mostly, but also as a fan, the only spring number you should care about are the ones that change a players utilization.

For instance, 10 spring Homer's dont matter if the guys is still going back to AAA.  But if he all of a sudden becomes tour starting LF...

[DrungoHazewood]

14 hours ago, Camden_yardbird said:

For fantasy mostly, but also as a fan, the only spring number you should care about are the ones that change a players utilization.

For instance, 10 spring Homer's dont matter if the guys is still going back to AAA.  But if he all of a sudden becomes tour starting LF...

There is some weak correlation between a massive spike in spring power and carry-over into the season.  So if you have a guy who hit four homers in 500 PAs last year, but hits 11 homers in the spring that's something you might pay attention to.

[Woody Held]

Power in Florida is so overrated.  Most games you have a steady 10 to 15 mph wind blowing .  When it is going out fly balls carry out