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11 hours ago, orioles22 said:

Pitching has been a disappointment for me. I think Lowther will get it together. Baumann should work his back soon, and Bradish could help. I wonder if Wells' stuff just isn't good enough at that level.

Wells may or may not be good enough to succeed in the majors, but I refuse to believe that a guy who threw to a 2.95 ERA in AA and has been continuously successful up until this year, would suddenly be completely out of his depth in AAA.    Between the year-long inactivity and his oblique injury this spring, perhaps he just isn’t throwing that well right now.   I think we just need to be patient with him and see if he rounds into form eventually.    

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I hope you're right. No reason to give up on him this soon, even if it means going to long relief at some point if he continues to struggle. Akin had some success at AAA but it seemed his numbers weren't nearly as good as at Bowie. I think that's one reason to fight the urge to skip AAA.

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5 hours ago, Frobby said:

Wells may or may not be good enough to succeed in the majors, but I refuse to believe that a guy who threw to a 2.95 ERA in AA and has been continuously successful up until this year, would suddenly be completely out of his depth in AAA.    Between the year-long inactivity and his oblique injury this spring, perhaps he just isn’t throwing that well right now.   I think we just need to be patient with him and see if he rounds into form eventually.    

I'm kind of like this for the whole team. Makes me wonder if there's some other issue with coaching or something. Just pure speculation, but Wells and Lowther should be doing very well. I assume more on the team are underperforming if they're 3-14, or whatever they are now. If there's a team wide performance problem, what affects that?

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