Voth claimed, Sedlocked DFA’ed, Owings back

[NelsonCruuuuuz]

2 hours ago, Sports Guy said:

Diplan, Lakins, Lowther, Nevin, Owings, Sulser and Reyes…those guys are all players I would have cut before Sedlock and likely others too.

Just doesn’t make sense.  Is this really a “I didn’t bring you into the organization” tie breaker decision?  
 

Like how can you keep Diplan over Sedlock?

Thought the same thing. Lakins, Diplan and Lowther in particular.

[clapdiddy]

I honestly don't care that they DFA'd Sedlock.   Voth looks like a guy who will be here for a couple of weeks, then released.

[interloper]

Sedlock wasn't even on the 40-man before his emergency appearance, and now he's not on the 40-man again. He's not a 40-man caliber guy. He's a guy who should slip through waivers and you do this all over again should the need arise. 

[Tony-OH]

Sedlock has a nice changeup. That's it. Everything else is really bad. 

All of his pitches have below average movement on them and his fastball is in the low 90s. I'm happy for him that he got his chance to pitch in the majors. He'll make it through waivers no problem and I doubt he'll be back.

[Aristotelian]

https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/1534253589975248897?s=20&t=EbddkQrdsuJVF1MT3WBS4A

 

 

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Aristotelian said:

https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/1534253589975248897?s=20&t=EbddkQrdsuJVF1MT3WBS4A

 

 

I had mentioned his overusage when he was drafted.

Additionally he hadn't had a starter's workload previously in college.

[Mooreisbetter27]

Sedlock cleared waivers and was assigned to Norfolk.  

[NelsonCruuuuuz]

Taylor homered off his old teammate 

[Roll Tide]

On 6/7/2022 at 7:31 PM, amdcpus said:

Not even comparable. Ripken was 20 when he came up, Rutschman 24.5. Isn't the whole point of drafting a college player that they are supposed to be much more refined?

You are jumping the gun bro

[Tony-OH]

I looked at Voth a little closer in statcast after watching him his debut.

His fastball has a little above average vertical movement and his curveball actually has plus movement on both horizontal and vertical movements.

The biggest change I see is that he was throwing his cutter much more, but he leaves that pitch way too often on the middle of the plate.

He was throwing it as much as his curveball but with the Orioles in his debut, he threw just two, one of which was a crappy 91 MPH one in the middle of the plate crushed for the home run.

So it appears the Orioles will convert him to a fastball curveball guy and see if that plays over an inning or two. 

He definitely needs to shelf that cutter though even though he's struggled to keep his curveball out of the middle of the plate this year as well.

If he becomes a fastball, curveball guy only, we'll see if he can regain some kind of success and effectiveness. Saying that, his movement averages slightly above average on those two pitches, so he's definitely only a middle guy or guy you bring in when down to eat a few innings at best.