Jordan Lyles agrees to 1-year deal with O's

[Natty]

https://www.mlb.com/news/jordan-lyles-free-agent-signing

[NelsonCruuuuuz]

Awful signing. The Carson Wentz’s of transactions.

Edited March 12, 2022 by NelsonCruuuuuz

[Frobby]

1 minute ago, NelsonCruuuuuz said:

Awful signing. The Carson Wentz’s of transactions.

Wantz is making how much?   

[waroriole]

It’s kind of getting lost on here how bad our pitching is going to be again. It’s hard to find 13 pitchers on our 40 man who should be at the ML level. Maybe 3 (Means, Wells, Sulser) that are better than league average and two are in the pen. Other than Grayson, there’s nobody else in the minors that should be a positive contributor this year. 

[NelsonCruuuuuz]

3 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Wantz is making how much?   

38 millionhttps://www.si.com/nfl/colts/news/colts-commanders-carson-wentz-trade-compensation

 

so many better options plus couldn’t have had him for 1/3 if the price with no picks. Just an epic head-scratcher.  Riveria good coach but his qb assessment abilities are poor, clearly.

[waroriole]

5 minutes ago, NelsonCruuuuuz said:

Awful signing. The Carson Wentz’s of transactions.

It’s way better than anyone we have that won’t be on the roster. He’s easily in the top half of our ML pitchers. There needs to be more pitching signings. Not complaining about the ones we got. 

[Frobby]

1 minute ago, NelsonCruuuuuz said:

38 millionhttps://www.si.com/nfl/colts/news/colts-commanders-carson-wentz-trade-compensation

 

so many better options plus couldn’t have had him for 1/3 if the price with no picks. Just an epic head-scratcher.  Riveria good coach but his qb assessment abilities are poor, clearly.

My point is, the Lyles move is very minor compared to the Wentz trade.   

[Natty]

Must have been stiff competition to try and sign the pitcher who led the league in ERs and HRs. 

We got our guy.

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, Natty said:

Must have been stiff competition to try and sign the pitcher who led the league in ERs and HRs. 

We got our guy.

They have a reputation to maintain. 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

2 minutes ago, Natty said:

Must have been stiff competition to try and sign the pitcher who led the league in ERs and HRs. 

We got our guy.

[Tony-OH]

34 minutes ago, NelsonCruuuuuz said:

Awful signing. The Carson Wentz’s of transactions.

Even if you don't like him, it's only a 1-year deal. Considering that the rotation was Means and everyone else, I don't think it's a terrible signing.

His stuff is not that bad when you look at the movement of his four seamer, curveball and slider. He just makes too many mistakes in the middle of the plate.

Either way, if he can eat 180 innings and provide an ERA around 5.00, he'll be useful.

[orioles119]

Did everyone forget that this deal was agreed to prior to the lockout?  Ya'll acting like it just happened.

[eddie83]

 

[DrinkinWithFermi]

I still can't believe Jordan Lyles got a $7 million guarantee after... well, his entire career, really.

[wildcard]

Hope everyone realizes that the team with the best ERA in the AL last  season had three starters with ERAs over 5.00.  Yarbrough,  Wacha and Fleming.   And Tampa led the AL with 100 wins.

And  no Tampa pitcher  pitched over 155 innings.  

The O's one two punch of Grayson and Means will probably be better than any starter Tampa had last season.

The O's need more pitching depth but Lyles does not project to hurt the O's staff.  He projects to help it.