Happy Birthday Adley

[wildcard]

I just hope there are ML games for him to play this season.

[Sports Guy]

23 minutes ago, Just Regular said:

Happy birthday, Sports Kid.

Here's hoping at 24 that Adley will show enough life mastery of the Game of Baseball for us to get to enjoy him in the major leagues.

Lol. Thank you.

let’s hope this is Adley’s last birthday as a minor leaguer.

[Ruzious]

On 2/6/2021 at 8:49 PM, Frobby said:

My point of view: I want to be competitive in 2022.    The best path to that is for Rutschman to get a good dose of major league experience in 2021 so he’s further up the learning curve in 2022.  Ditto for a number of the pitchers.  

Now, like I’ve said multiple times, I still want Rutschman to prove he’s ready.   I’m confident he will, but I want him to show it.   
 

The only way to prove it - is for him to play in the Bigs.  

[Frobby]

40 minutes ago, Ruzious said:

The only way to prove it - is for him to play in the Bigs.  

You realize you’re replying to a year-old post, right?

[webbrick2010]

On 2/5/2021 at 10:35 PM, Just Regular said:

23 years old/young on Saturday, or 23.001 as B-Ref would put it.   Only Bart among these other, mostly awesome, catchers had 2020 in their climb, but here are some debut ages, and where Adley this weekend falls in the group.

19.205 Pudge

20.352 Mauer

21.092 Sal Perez

21.326 Yadi

22.062 Pedro Severino

22.079 Zunino

22.168 Posey

22.190 Chance Sisco

23.001 Adley

23.008 Wieters

23.079 Realmuto

23.207 Grandal   

23.249 Bart

24.036 Hoiles

One of the many things I didn't like about this pick

He may already be past his prime. Look at Manny,  his peak WAR year was his age 22 season

[Ruzious]

2 hours ago, Frobby said:

You realize you’re replying to a year-old post, right?

It's wonderful when people open up old thrads.    

[Just Regular]

9 minutes ago, Ruzious said:

It's wonderful when people open up old thrads.    

I hope Adley birthday wishes stay part of Oriole fandom for 6.9....nay 10.9....baseball seasons!

But then the Branch Rickey year too early better than year too late stuff.

[DrungoHazewood]

1 hour ago, webbrick2010 said:

One of the many things I didn't like about this pick

He may already be past his prime. Look at Manny,  his peak WAR year was his age 22 season

All I really want is Rutschman to play some MLB games so we have some tiny shred of actual, real-life evidence to support or go against your hatred of the Orioles draft.

[Just Regular]

Heck of a trip around the sun for The Franchise.

Here's hoping Age 25 burns just as bright.

[Moose Milligan]

25! Great knees! Has to catch all 162. 

[Frobby]

On 2/7/2022 at 12:11 PM, webbrick2010 said:

One of the many things I didn't like about this pick

He may already be past his prime. Look at Manny,  his peak WAR year was his age 22 season

Funny to look back at this post.   If Adley is past his peak, I’d love to see what his peak looked like!

Edited February 7, 2023 by Frobby

[Can_of_corn]

45 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Funny to look back at this post.   If Adley is past his peak, I’d love to see what his peak looked like!

Also of note, Manny, as a 29 year old, put up a 7.4 fWAR last season, a career high. 

[sevastras]

50 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Funny to look back at this post.   If Adley is past his peak, I’d love to see what his peak looked like!

Manny did just have an MVP caliber season posting over a 7 war but I mean he is obviously toast. 

[sevastras]

4 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Also of note, Manny, as a 29 year old, put up a 7.4 fWAR last season, a career high. 

Beat me to it. 

[ChosenOne21]

webbrick's way off base here, but by oWAR + dWAR Machado's career high was 8.0 in his age 22 season and he had 7.4 last year.