Rodriguez, Tork and Witt make OD rosters

[geschinger]

59 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I want him to win, I think it'd be hilarious.

Not sure hilarious is the word I'd use for a triceps injuiry costing the Orioles a valuable compensatory draft pick

[Just Regular]

Bumping with the book closed.

Both the Tigers and Torkelson played bad, and so Detroit was able to do the course correction where even with the Opening Day placement Torkelson will enter 2023 with service time = 0.137.

Some of why I'm hopeful Cowser, Westburg and Grayson are Opening Day Orioles is the basic "free look".    If a month into the year the Player is very clearly not a Rookie of Year candidate, fair chance they are also playing poorly enough you can send them back without it being too controversial.

Also just more fun to consider the 26-man roster pressures of an improving team if you give those three guys spots.

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, Just Regular said:

Bumping with the book closed.

Both the Tigers and Torkelson played bad, and so Detroit was able to do the course correction where even with the Opening Day placement Torkelson will enter 2023 with service time = 0.137.

Some of why I'm hopeful Cowser, Westburg and Grayson are Opening Day Orioles is the basic "free look".    If a month into the year the Player is very clearly not a Rookie of Year candidate, fair chance they are also playing poorly enough you can send them back without it being too controversial.

Also just more fun to consider the 26-man roster pressures of an improving team if you give those three guys spots.

Cowser is in a different category than Rodriguez and Westburg.  They’ve both had more AAA experience, and performed better in AAA, than Cowser.  I’d be shocked if Cowser were on our OD roster, and not surprised at all if the other two are.

[Just Regular]

It will be interesting to watch it play out.    Cowser hits me as an in-between case for the Club to decide, "Is this guy good enough to challenge for Rookie of the Year?".

I think if a Player factors into a Club's 2023 plans at all, and the Club feels the Player has the stuff to compete for the Top Two, the design of the incentives is to get the guy up.    Adley's injury resulted in us not getting to see how the '22 Orioles would have weighed them in the likeliest case.   I hope as Elias measures Cowser his answers are Yes and Yes.

Certainly Cowser would be an underdog on paper to Gunnar, Jung and Casas at least (and Grayson if he gets the innings!).    But Jung might be worse than Torkelson, Cowser might be better than Kwan, etc.     And of course accelerating him roster wise it would put the same clamp on Stowers/Vavra as Jose Abreu or any veteran bat good enough to start would.

The AAA plate appearances scoreboard for these ready/near-ready Bats going into next year is:

Casas 317, Gunnar 295, Valera 179, Cowser 124, Jung 106, Volpe 99, Mead 85