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Tuesday September 27: Orioles try to clinch both .500 season and 4th place finish

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I heard NASA nuked an asteroid moon. 

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Fun fact: Ozzie Smith is #1 all time for career defensive WAR. #2 - #5 are Belanger, Brioks, and Cal.

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If the FO wanted Stowers to face more lefties he would.    This is Fenway. I get why he hit a Aguilar. A three run bomb makes it a 2 run game. 

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6 minutes ago, Bahama O's Fan said:

Aguilar? Really?

Aguilar is a veteran hitter. Count on him to take a few pitches, then hit a ball solidly through the IF, to the right side if they pitch him outside, for a couple of badly needed runs. A raw rookie like Stowers might be tempted to overswing, aiming for the wall or the RF corner. 

Oh, wait.

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What we have in middle relief right now is a huge dumpster fire.. it gets masked over when starters can get us to Tate, Perez and Bautista ..but when starters blowup, we have absolutely nobody that can stop the bleeding.  Huge need for next season is much better middle relief. 

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Just now, tntoriole said:

What we have in middle relief right now is a huge dumpster fire.. it gets masked over when starters can get us to Tate, Perez and Bautista ..but when starters blowup, we have absolutely nobody that can stop the bleeding.  Huge need for next season is much better middle relief. 

The doomsayers expected that the pen would wear down and get exposed.

They lasted a lot longer than I thought they would.

I also don't get why they added Reed.

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1 minute ago, tntoriole said:

What we have in middle relief right now is a huge dumpster fire.. it gets masked over when starters can get us to Tate, Perez and Bautista ..but when starters blowup, we have absolutely nobody that can stop the bleeding.  Huge need for next season is much better middle relief. 

Inclined to agree.  There's a big delta between the guys you can trust and the guys you can't.  Krehbiel and Reed are guys that aren't that reliable right now.

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The doomsayers expected that the pen would wear down and get exposed.

They lasted a lot longer than I thought they would.

I also don't get why they added Reed.

He will sent down tomorrow. 
 

I would rather see Gallagher instead of Nevin if Vavra can play defense tomorrow. 
 

I bet they regret not sending out Watkins but probably assumed Bradish would  be better. 

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3 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

If you guys think Hyde is playing Aguilar with no input from the FO I don’t know what to tell you. 

I'm not so sure about that.  We need to give credit when credit is due, this isn't Syd Thrift's front office.  It feels good to say that our FO is pretty smart, I mean I just cheated The Sun paywall courtesy of @Can_of_cornand read an article about this pitching lab the Orioles have set up.  We're firmly in the 21st century when it comes to how baseball is looked at by a FO.

I don't believe they think that Aguilar is head and shoulders a better option over Stowers in all facets.  I think maybe Hyde liked a matchup better for whatever reason.

 

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