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

[Can_of_corn]

10 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Sure, he’s a dime a dozen guy but he could have a role on a ML team as long as he is cheap.

 

 

His role should be playing in AAA waiting for someone to get injured.

[Moshagge3]

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.

[Sports Guy]

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.

[Moshagge3]

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?

[Can_of_corn]

5 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.

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

[DrungoHazewood]

4 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.

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.

[DrungoHazewood]

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.

[Sports Guy]

9 minutes ago, Moshagge3 said:

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

Rave reviews was more sarcasm.

I agree the bar isn’t high..but we should still be thriving for more than that anyway.

[survivedc]

3 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

What are we betting?

I’ll wager my respect for Elias

[Ruzious]

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.  

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Ruzious said:

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

Elias is breaking the paradigm.

[Ruzious]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

Elias is breaking the paradigm.

Hey, I'm not sure he has 1 dime; much less 2.

 

 

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Ruzious said:

Hey, I'm not sure he has 1 dime; much less 2.

 

 

[jabba72]

The fact that neither one is able to move out Smith in LF is a little concerning. Maybe neither one is showing much in camp. 

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, jabba72 said:

The fact that neither one is able to move out Smith in LF is a little concerning. Maybe neither one is showing much in camp. 

Or, its got nothing to do with who is showing what at camp.