Shortstop playing time watch

[jabba72]

What are the odds any of these three can beat out Mateo for SS? Not extremely high unless they show they have better hands and bat. Then they could take SS away from him. Mateo probably has better range then all of them.  

[seak05]

1 hour ago, jabba72 said:

What are the odds any of these three can beat out Mateo for SS? Not extremely high unless they show they have better hands and bat. Then they could take SS away from him. Mateo probably has better range then all of them.  

In SSS data (last year and this with the Orioles), Mateo seems to move well towards the thirdbase line, but struggle on balls coming in. He was -OAA coming in on balls both last year and this year, this year he is neutral for the year on OAA, due to adding value going towards 3B

[LookinUp]

19 hours ago, glenn__davis said:

Anyone heard anything at all about Servideo?

Rehabbing in extended spring training per this article, which also has updates on AR, DL Hall and Kjerstad.

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/checking-on-orioles-extended-spring-training

[Frobby]

33 minutes ago, LookinUp said:

Rehabbing in extended spring training per this article, which also has updates on AR, DL Hall and Kjerstad.

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/checking-on-orioles-extended-spring-training

Well, all happy talk from Matt Packer.   I guess that beats hearing that someone had a setback, though it does seem that Rutschman’s rehab is going slowly and it’s hard to tell what’s going on with Servideo.   

[LookinUp]

Just now, Frobby said:

Well, all happy talk from Matt Packer.   I guess that beats hearing that someone had a setback, though it does seem that Rutschman’s rehab is going slowly and it’s hard to tell what’s going on with Servideo.   

Oh, no doubt they're doing the bare minimum re: information and any plans for these players.

[glenn__davis]

So the update is that all are progressing. Excellent, haha.

[Aristotelian]

On 4/20/2022 at 4:27 PM, jabba72 said:

What are the odds any of these three can beat out Mateo for SS? Not extremely high unless they show they have better hands and bat. Then they could take SS away from him. Mateo probably has better range then all of them.  

I don't know which one eventually wins out but the odds of Mateo being our SS 2-3 years from now seems very low to me. 

[Frobby]

54 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

I don't know which one eventually wins out but the odds of Mateo being our SS 2-3 years from now seems very low to me. 

I agree.

[seak05]

Thought this was an interesting article from Roch on the SS rotation at Bowie + Hall, and how the Orioles development team guides it with the manager

 

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/moore-manages-to-move-around-his-shortstops-at-bowie

[jabba72]

1 hour ago, seak05 said:

Thought this was an interesting article from Roch on the SS rotation at Bowie + Hall, and how the Orioles development team guides it with the manager

 

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/moore-manages-to-move-around-his-shortstops-at-bowie

They basically want Ortiz, Westburg and Henderson to get two starts at SS per week. Interesting that they haven't yet determined who the best SS is yet. 

[Frobby]

8 minutes ago, jabba72 said:

They basically want Ortiz, Westburg and Henderson to get two starts at SS per week. Interesting that they haven't yet determined who the best SS is yet. 

Oh, I think they know who’s best defensively.  It’s Ortiz. They just don’t know whose bat will play.   And they’re hoping that Westburg and Henderson could be at least decent there if Ortiz doesn’t hit well enough to stick.  

[seak05]

22 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Oh, I think they know who’s best defensively.  It’s Ortiz. They just don’t know whose bat will play.   And they’re hoping that Westburg and Henderson could be at least decent there if Ortiz doesn’t hit well enough to stick.  

 

33 minutes ago, jabba72 said:

They basically want Ortiz, Westburg and Henderson to get two starts at SS per week. Interesting that they haven't yet determined who the best SS is yet. 

yeah, I think they know basically what they have defensively in Westburg and Ortiz, Ortiz is the better defender, but Westburg is playable there (but probably below avg at the ML level). Henderson is the wildcard, I think he has the arm strength but there are questions about his range long term, and he had a lot of errors last year. 

[Just Regular]

Baysox Week3 outcomes:

Gunnar: 3B-3B-3B-SS-SS-3B     (three days in a row at 3B I believe first time anyone has done that so far)

Westburg: SS-SS-off-3B-3B-2B

Ortiz: off-2B-SS-2B-2B-SS

Adam Hall flexed in from the outfield grass a little bit.   Maybe he joins Vavra and Jahmai as a candidate for that Chris Taylor-Enrique Hernandez type job.

[Frobby]

So, on the year so far:

Ortiz 8 games at 2B and 5 at SS

Westburg 4 games at 2B, 5 at 3B, 4 at SS

Henderson 9 games at 3B, 5 at SS

Henderson has 2 errors at SS, Ortiz 1, Westburg 0.   None of them have made an error at their other positions yet.  

[interloper]

On 4/23/2022 at 12:36 PM, seak05 said:

Thought this was an interesting article from Roch on the SS rotation at Bowie + Hall, and how the Orioles development team guides it with the manager

 

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/moore-manages-to-move-around-his-shortstops-at-bowie

Yeah this sheds some light. They want them to play back-to-back games at SS, but basically no one is playing 3 in a row ever.