Austin Hays hits a walkoff home run to break losing streak with 7-5 win (sim)

[Tony-OH]

https://www.orioleshangout.com/2020/04/26/austin-hays-walkoff-homer/

Well this was exciting at least.

[Can_of_corn]

So far Hays has been the only player worth watching.  He's having a very nice "rookie" season.  Too early to anoint him the O's All-star selection?

[tntoriole]

2 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

So far Hays has been the only player worth watching.  He's having a very nice "rookie" season.  Too early to anoint him the O's All-star selection?

Position player absolutely Hays has been the best.  Castro has quietly been doing well with 2 scoreless in this game for the win and ERA now of 0.71. 

[Tony-OH]

2 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

So far Hays has been the only player worth watching.  He's having a very nice "rookie" season.  Too early to anoint him the O's All-star selection?

If it's anyone else I would be shocked unless he goes into a huge regression. Guess Givens or even Castro or Harvey could potentially slip in as relievers. They have all been great.

[Can_of_corn]

12 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

If it's anyone else I would be shocked unless he goes into a huge regression. Guess Givens or even Castro or Harvey could potentially slip in as relievers. They have all been great.

True, it is easy to slip a reliever onto the team as the charity pick.

[Tony-OH]

15 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

True, it is easy to slip a reliever onto the team as the charity pick.

I'll go out on a limb and say it won't be Means this year. Or any starter!

[ChosenOne21]

I wonder if OOTP doesn't believe in Means's low HR/FB%. He had one of the lowest in the league last year, but he also had a pretty great hard hit%, so maybe it wasn't all a fluke. The advanced pitching metrics hate him because of his low strikeout numbers and fly ball tendencies. Do you know if OOTP just looks at the FIPs and xFIPs of the world, or do they take into account things like hard hit% and barrels?

[Tony-OH]

25 minutes ago, ChosenOne21 said:

I wonder if OOTP doesn't believe in Means's low HR/FB%. He had one of the lowest in the league last year, but he also had a pretty great hard hit%, so maybe it wasn't all a fluke. The advanced pitching metrics hate him because of his low strikeout numbers and fly ball tendencies. Do you know if OOTP just looks at the FIPs and xFIPs of the world, or do they take into account things like hard hit% and barrels?

Some good questions and I'm not sure what they take into consideration to come up with their ratings. The ratings are usually pretty decent, but they have misses and not everything is perfect. I'm hoping with all the statcast information out there they will incorporate that into future ratings.

[Moose Milligan]

Hays has turned into a pretty good player in my sim.  I locked him up long term.

[Legend_Of_Joey]

With Holoday on the 26 man roster now and Sisco struggling, is there anyone else in AAA or in the waiver that could take his spot?

[Tony-OH]

35 minutes ago, Legend_Of_Joey said:

With Holoday on the 26 man roster now and Sisco struggling, is there anyone else in AAA or in the waiver that could take his spot?

I'm considering promoting Yusniel Diaz but I'm going to give Sisco a chance at DHing some to see if he can get it going offensively. He's been a little better after a real slow start. Really the big thing is keeping Davis on the roster. I was hoping Mountcastle would be forcing his way to the big leagues but he has struggled outside of hitting a few long home runs. I really don't like the ratings on Mountcastle in the sim. His hit tool is too low.

[Moose Milligan]

5 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

I'm considering promoting Yusniel Diaz but I'm going to give Sisco a chance at DHing some to see if he can get it going offensively. He's been a little better after a real slow start. Really the big thing is keeping Davis on the roster. I was hoping Mountcastle would be forcing his way to the big leagues but he has struggled outside of hitting a few long home runs. I really don't like the ratings on Mountcastle in the sim. His hit tool is too low.

Just cut him man.  Just do it.  

 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

Santander (.914 OPS) and Hays (.853 OPS) are tearing it up on baseball-reference.com's OOTP sim of the season.  

https://www.baseball-reference.com/sim/teams/BAL/2020.shtml

[Frobby]

22 hours ago, Tony-OH said:

https://www.orioleshangout.com/2020/04/26/austin-hays-walkoff-homer/

Well this was exciting at least.

Nick Markakis was available on waivers and you didn’t claim him?    Shame on you!!  

[Tony-OH]

15 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Nick Markakis was available on waivers and you didn’t claim him?    Shame on you!!  

I would have had to pick up his $4.5 million contract and i want to have room to bring up Diaz in a little bit.