Tracking Ex Oriole Thread

[Frobby]

1 minute ago, clapdiddy said:

Despite his obvious over-achievement this season thus far, I'd still rather have Flaherty over Vielma, Sardinas, or anyone else we could currently have in the "utility guy" role. 

I can’t really disagree with that.   It’s a pretty lame group, and now that Schoop is out, the original idea of using Valencia at 3B and shifting Beckham around to avoid the need for a real utility guy has been pretty quickly exposed as a bad idea.   

[foxfield]

Count me as thrilled for Flash.  I hope he continues it all year and never looks back. I think the O's made the right call and again happy that Flash got more money than Baltimore offered.  

I tend to think he will come back to earth, but I would also count this as another opportunity to play every day that he has seized on.

Good for him.

[Aglets]

Just imagine what it must feel like to be a Phillies fan right now.  He was in their camp through spring and they just let him get away for nothing!  What an organizational misfire!

Not sure how they'll ever recover now that they've only started the season 10-7.......... *cries*

[atomic]

6 minutes ago, Aglets said:

Just imagine what it must feel like to be a Phillies fan right now.  He was in their camp through spring and they just let him get away for nothing!  What an organizational misfire!

Not sure how they'll ever recover now that they've only started the season 10-7.......... *cries*

Maybe they had someone better.  We have Vielma.  A .498 OPS in AAA.  I have no idea why we didn't sign Flaherty and I have no idea why forum members were against signing him. 

[atomic]

10 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I can’t really disagree with that.   It’s a pretty lame group, and now that Schoop is out, the original idea of using Valencia at 3B and shifting Beckham around to avoid the need for a real utility guy has been pretty quickly exposed as a bad idea.   

Like I said it was over and over again. The problem is Buck didn't realize it was a bad idea to go without a utility infielder.  He was actually bragging about how he could give players days off now that he had all this depth.  Well he had 4 DH's.  I wouldn't call that depth. 

[Aglets]

10 minutes ago, atomic said:

Maybe they had someone better.  We have Vielma.  A .498 OPS in AAA.  I have no idea why we didn't sign Flaherty and I have no idea why forum members were against signing him. 

Their regular 3rd baseman is Maikel Franco.  Currently hitting .220/281/.420 .   I think they'd rather have Flaherty.

Their big FA signing (C. Santana) has a .532 OPS so far.     

 

[PaulFolk]

An early check on last year's Orioles who are now playing elsewhere (Flaherty included):

http://www.baltimorebaseball.com/2018/04/18/ex-os-report-looking-2017-orioles-elsewhere-nowhere-season/

[pastorfan]

1 hour ago, atomic said:

Maybe they had someone better.  We have Vielma.  A .498 OPS in AAA.  I have no idea why we didn't sign Flaherty and I have no idea why forum members were against signing him. 

The issue is not necessarily not resigning Flash, but having absolutely no other depth. Clearly we should have had a lefty bat with a good glove ready in case Beckham stunk.

[Aglets]

16 hours ago, Luke-OH said:

0 HRs, 4 doubles

Hit his first HR of the season yesterday, going 2 for 4 with 4 RBIs.

Another pretty amusing note to me.............the Braves are hitting him 8th in the order.

[Going Underground]

22 minutes ago, pastorfan said:

The issue is not necessarily not resigning Flash, but having absolutely no other depth. Clearly we should have had a lefty bat with a good glove ready in case Beckham stunk.

The Orioles did not resign Markakis. But the replacements of Snyder,Smith, Rasmus and others were below replacement level. Because they were you had to trade Davies to get Parra. Parra was not good here and was gone.

[Can_of_corn]

7 minutes ago, Going Underground said:

The Orioles did not resign Markakis. But the replacements of Snyder,Smith, Rasmus and others were below replacement level. Because they were you had to trade Davies to get Parra. Parra was not good here and was gone.

Snider was actually worth 1 rWAR for the O's.  I said at the time that whomever they brought in to replace him probably wasn't going to be an improvement.

[DrungoHazewood]

3 hours ago, Frobby said:

I had a good discussion with Luke in the ex-Orioles thread in the MLB forum.   Flaherty’s BABIP is crazy high, and his xwOBA (expected wOBA based on quality of contact) is well above his wOBA.    So, there’s a lot of evidence he’s been lucky, and he hasn’t hit for any power, so you can expect his numbers will normalize.    Perhaps he’ll have his best year, but I wouldn’t get too excited about his early performance.

Wait... are you saying he's not going to end the year hitting like Rogers Hornsby after six years of being Kiko Garcia?  You just blew my mind.

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Wait... are you saying he's not going to end the year hitting like Rogers Hornsby after six years of being Kiko Garcia?  You just blew my mind.

Hornsby had more power.

[Emory Eagle]

I haven't looked at any data, but I seem to recall Flaherty's swing was a bit long. They'll figure out soon enough that you can beat him with fastballs up and in.  I believe he is also liable to chase a down and in slider from time to time.  

[jtschrei]

I'm thrilled for Flash. Anyone who thinks our record would be much different if we had Flaherty is wrong. 

Here's the thing about Flash -- very good infielder. Beckham has not impressed me at all at 3B. And now with Schoop down, I do think Flaherty would be playing quite a bit for us. I miss Flaherty's defense. I think this bat will level out and revert to career norms.