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I'm Ready for Mountcastle and Diaz: Mountcastle Up, Diaz Still Waiting

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At this point the only explanation to me is Elias doesn't want to win too many games and not get a top pick. We've passed the service time deadline.  I'd park Davis on the bench and have Mountcas

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If I were Mountcastle I’d be having some “issues” right now. He won the AAA International League MVP. He was the best player in the darn league. He’s 23 and not 20. He’s shown a willingness to try 3-4

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Mountcastle should’ve been 100% been up after the 7 games or whatever. Probably before then.    Diaz should’ve gotten the call once Hays went on the DL and Mullins/Stewart flopped.    I

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Sometimes when people discuss Mountcastle it feels like he's a feral child who had never seen a baseball glove until this year. He played 221 innings in left field last year! Maybe he wasn't Alex Gordon out there, but I don't get the idea that he has to be kept in Area 51 like a top secret research project when the Orioles are getting horrible LF defense at the major league level.

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5 minutes ago, Moshagge3 said:

Sometimes when people discuss Mountcastle it feels like he's a feral child who had never seen a baseball glove until this year. He played 221 innings in left field last year! Maybe he wasn't Alex Gordon out there, but I don't get the idea that he has to be kept in Area 51 like a top secret research project when the Orioles are getting horrible LF defense at the major league level.

Well, we don’t really know how he has performed at LF...however, we do know that he has been pretty brutal at the other positions he has played and it’s not like we are hearing rave reviews about his defense in LF.

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3 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Well, we don’t really know how he has performed at LF...however, we do know that he has been pretty brutal at the other positions he has played and it’s not like we are hearing rave reviews about his defense in LF.

Do we need "rave reviews" when we're currently alternating between Smith's horrible glove and Valaika's horrible bat?

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Well, we don’t really know how he has performed at LF...however, we do know that he has been pretty brutal at the other positions he has played and it’s not like we are hearing rave reviews about his defense in LF.

He's had a lot more time in the outfield than Wilkerson did when they threw him out there in Center.

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Well, we don’t really know how he has performed at LF...however, we do know that he has been pretty brutal at the other positions he has played and it’s not like we are hearing rave reviews about his defense in LF.

And this is the Orioles.  They've played Trey Mancini in the outfield for 2200 innings even though nobody at Notre Dame, Aberdeen, Delmarva, Frederick, Bowie or Norfolk thought he could handle anything but first base for even an inning.  I think it's unlikely that Mountcastle is much worse than Mancini.

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4 minutes ago, Moshagge3 said:

Do we need "rave reviews" when we're currently alternating between Smith's horrible glove and Valaika's horrible bat?

Plus, it's the new baseball.  Outfield is kind of a vestigial position.  They don't really play defense, they're there to watch homers and strikeouts, and guys hitting the occasional ball to the rover in the shift.

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6 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

What is the harm in having players come up and try out at the ML level?  The 40 has chaff that can be cut for him.  No offense to the kids out there playing well but he's not going to hurt the team's playoff chances.

One of the benefits, historically, to being bad is the chance to bring these guys up and see what they can do.

The data you can get from watching him in the majors has to be superior to what you can get playing scrimmages against the same competition for months.

That's what I've always thought, but it hasn't begun to happen in Baltimore.  

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