Tracking Ex Oriole Thread

[bobmc]

5 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Dylan Bundy has always been an up and down pitcher, but perhaps this explains his poor start last night? 

 

He seemed to be sweating a lot but did tough it out into the 6th.  Thanks!

[Tony-OH]

22 hours ago, bobmc said:

He seemed to be sweating a lot but did tough it out into the 6th.  Thanks!

Bundy always sweated a ton though.

[Can_of_corn]

I saw Nelson Cruz's name come up yesterday and I just checked his stats.

Looks like his incredibly unlikely run of late career dominance is in jeopardy.

I hear a 35 OPS+ isn't what you want out of your DH.

Of course his struggles really started last year and it isn't uncommon to see a steep decline at his age.

[SteveA]

4 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

I saw Nelson Cruz's name come up yesterday and I just checked his stats.

Looks like his incredibly unlikely run of late career dominance is in jeopardy.

I hear a 35 OPS+ isn't what you want out of your DH.

Of course his struggles really started last year and it isn't uncommon to see a steep decline at his age.

Actually it IS uncommon to see a steep decline at his age.   Because most guys his age have previously retired, so it's uncommon to see them playing at all.   There's probably not enough data on 42 year old players to have a sample size worth drawing conclusions from!

Julio Franco missed his age 41 season, put up a 109 OPS+ in his age 42 season, dropped to 94 at age 43, then had  113, 111, and 107 ages 44-45-46.   

[Can_of_corn]

4 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Actually it IS uncommon to see a steep decline at his age.   Because most guys his age have previously retired, so it's uncommon to see them playing at all.   There's probably not enough data on 42 year old players to have a sample size worth drawing conclusions from!

Julio Franco missed his age 41 season, put up a 109 OPS+ in his age 42 season, dropped to 94 at age 43, then had  113, 111, and 107 ages 44-45-46.   

I was being more general but you are correct.

[Natty]

Looks like Machado is off to a great start. Leads MLB in BA, Hits, Runs.

[NashLumber]

On 5/5/2022 at 5:25 PM, bobmc said:

He seemed to be sweating a lot but did tough it out into the 6th.  Thanks!

He's had his struggles, but always seems to bulldog it out ... almost. 

I wonder if he felt as bad as he did here. 

 

 

[SteveA]

Gerardo Parra retires.   He had a minor league contract with the Nats, where he is a hero from their World Series run, in spring training, but didn't make the team and opted out.   And now has decided to call it a career.

We gave up Zach Davies to get him at the deadline in 2015 and he put up a .624 OPS for us after having an .886 OPS for Milwaukee in the first half of that season.    We got pretty much the worst half season of his entire career, other than perhaps a 100 AB stretch with San Fran in 2019.

[Can_of_corn]

2 hours ago, SteveA said:

Gerardo Parra retires.   He had a minor league contract with the Nats, where he is a hero from their World Series run, in spring training, but didn't make the team and opted out.   And now has decided to call it a career.

We gave up Zach Davies to get him at the deadline in 2015 and he put up a .624 OPS for us after having an .886 OPS for Milwaukee in the first half of that season.    We got pretty much the worst half season of his entire career, other than perhaps a 100 AB stretch with San Fran in 2019.

I remember him having an unsustainable BABIP at the time of the trade.

[Frobby]

50 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I remember him having an unsustainable BABIP at the time of the trade.

Yes, we all knew he’d been overperforming.  What we didn’t know is that he’d put up an OPS about 120 points below his career average while with us.   We basically had terrible underperformance with every corner OF we tried that year.   

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

Yes, we all knew he’d been overperforming.  What we didn’t know is that he’d put up an OPS about 120 points below his career average while with us.   We basically had terrible underperformance with every corner OF we tried that year.   

I warned folks at the time that Parra might not be any better than Snider was.  I wasn't expecting him to be a huge step back.

Honestly Snider was serviceable out there.  An OPS+ of 81 isn't what you want to see but the glove was decent.

[Can_of_corn]

Some good news.

 

[Frobby]

10 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

Some good news.

 

That’s pretty cool.  The guy made over $20 mm playing baseball and still found it worthwhile to complete his college degree.   I wonder what direction he’ll take now.   

[SilverRocket]

I know Nestor Cortes was the worst Oriole pitcher we've seen in a long line of terrible Orioles pitchers, but could we have kept him somehow and lost 117 instead of 115 that year?

[JimGinSP]

Cesar Valdez returns to the show with the Angels.  Has been starting in AAA Salt Lake this year with good results.  
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/05/angels-select-cesar-valdez.html

Wow, that DFA came quick…..

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/05/angels-designate-cesar-valdez-outright-aaron-whitefield.html