Iglesias to IL, Urias promoted

[NCRaven]

45 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Obviously he isn't ready.

#May2021

Green font, wink, wink, damnit!  

[Can_of_corn]

8 minutes ago, NCRaven said:

Green font, wink, wink, damnit!  

I'm not sure I was kidding.

 

[HowAboutThat]

14 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Are we sure Urias can't hit a lick?  His career pro OPS is .833, although most of that is in Mexico, with some stints in the PCL. Last year he OPS'd .793 in AAA, but being the PCL that was 12th on the team (min 100 PAs) or 19th (min 50 PAs).  Was the best hitter on the Diablos Rojos del Mexico in 2017 at 23, OPSing over 1.000.  But Mexico City is at 7300' altitude...

It's hard to tell when you're in weird contexts.  It's like trying to draft that guy from University of New Mexico where they score 23 runs a game.

 If there is a negative to having excellent analysts in an organization, it is that pleasant surprises are few. A good organization Chooses well, and when they decide that a guy is not good, they are probably correct. There are exceptions to every rule, of course, but in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, I’m going to assume that this guy doesn’t hit or defend as well as the guys ahead of him on the chart, because if he did he would be here and they would be down.

[MurphDogg]

2 hours ago, wildcard said:

Urias is probably the 3rd SS behind Velazquez and Valaika.  He has been mostly a 2B for the last few years.

He was probably called up because Velazquez is going to share CF with Mullins.  

Velazquez can't share CF with Mullins if he is already sharing LF with Smith. We need a righthanded outfielder, one that hit .349 with a .597 slugging percentage against lefties in AAA would be ideal.

[bpilktree]

Could the GM know something we don’t about service time.  This week so far Mize Skubal came up with Tigers today.  The Braves are calling up Christian Pache as well.  That is 3 top 100 guys just today.  Maybe just looking into it to much with why delay on Mountcastle but bit odd three guys in one day.

 

[25 Nuggets]

1 hour ago, Can_of_corn said:

I'm not sure I was kidding.

 

I don't think he's part of the Orioles future anymore.

#Mountcastleisabust

[makoman]

20 minutes ago, bpilktree said:

Could the GM know something we don’t about service time.  This week so far Mize Skubal came up with Tigers today.  The Braves are calling up Christian Pache as well.  That is 3 top 100 guys just today.  Maybe just looking into it to much with why delay on Mountcastle but bit odd three guys in one day.

 

There’s not really anything extra to know, the only service time thing at issue right now is super 2 status, and that depends on where you rank on the service time list years in the future. It’s pretty hard to predict in the present, other than know where you are historically. We are right around the normal historical cut off, but this year (and maybe next year) will likely be weird and cause things to differ from the historical norms. Not to mention we don’t know if the new CBA will even include this. 

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, makoman said:

There’s not really anything extra to know, the only service time thing at issue right now is super 2 status, and that depends on where you rank on the service time list years in the future. It’s pretty hard to predict in the present, other than know where you are historically. We are right around the normal historical cut off, but this year (and maybe next year) will likely be weird and cause things to differ from the historical norms. Not to mention we don’t know if the new CBA will even include this. 

We can infer by the moves being made by other teams that they think the cutoff date has been reached.

[makoman]

Just now, Can_of_corn said:

We can infer by the moves being made by other teams that they think the cutoff date has been reached.

That’s fair and likely so. We can also infer that the O’s, whether it’s Elias or ownership, are conservative re: service time issues. 

[DrungoHazewood]

12 hours ago, 25 Nuggets said:

I don't think he's part of the Orioles future anymore.

#Mountcastleisabust

Now's the perfect time to trade him for a nugget for the stretch run!  Like Jason Grimsley.

[sportsfan8703]

CF - Mason Williams

LF - Mountcastle 

SS - Velasquez 

Why not?

[DrungoHazewood]

16 hours ago, Philip said:

 If there is a negative to having excellent analysts in an organization, it is that pleasant surprises are few. A good organization Chooses well, and when they decide that a guy is not good, they are probably correct. There are exceptions to every rule, of course, but in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, I’m going to assume that this guy doesn’t hit or defend as well as the guys ahead of him on the chart, because if he did he would be here and they would be down.

Yea, the going-in assumption (i.e. prior) has to be that he's just not that good or he'd already be here.  But it's at least a tiny bit intriguing that he was the best hitter on his roughly AA-caliber Mexico City Red Devils team at 23.