Ryan Mountcastle 2023

[LA2]

4 hours ago, Gurgi said:

I had my head smashed into the curb during a bar fight twenty years ago.  It game me vertigo very badly every time i leaned my head back and looked up my head would start spinning until I changed the position.  I couldnt lay my head flat on a pillow or my head would spin.  Did all the checks with the hospital machines they found nothing wrong.   Had the problem for six months straight before it eased off....but it continued for the next three years.  But it also will come back every once in a while even today when My head rest on a pillow the wrong way.  The spinning comes back.  

I wish Mountcastle all the best.  It really does suck having vertigo.

Thank you for the personal testimony. I'm glad you eventually made it through OK. Minor disagreements or misunderstandings have a way of escalating disastrously in a bar.

[rm5678]

Roch mentioned in his latest blog post that Mountcastle will be playing tonight & tomorrow in  Norfolk. But I see he's not in the starting lineup, so he must have been a late scratch. That might not be a good sign.

[Fiver6565]

Yeah he was a late scratch per the game announcer. Didn’t say why though. 

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, Fiver6565 said:

Yeah he was a late scratch per the game announcer. Didn’t say why though. 

Probably the centerpiece in a trade for that TOR starter.

[Jammer7]

I have had some vertigo symptoms in the past. For me, it wasn’t an issue of being ill or not, but degrees of it. Some days are better than others, and I was able to function somewhat. I hope he is able to overcome this fairly soon, but I am not very optimistic of a quick return, based on my own experiences. 

[Can_of_corn]

No word from the team on his absence?

 

[Going Underground]

6 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

No word from the team on his absence?

 

No ,they are more worried about showing this Keegan Akin game four times this week. 

 

 

[Going Underground]

10 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

No word from the team on his absence?

 

Don't ask why. 16 games over .500 Let's not flush them down the drain.

 

[Going Underground]

Mountcastle went 4 for 5 on Saturday night 

[Can_of_corn]

4 hours ago, Going Underground said:

Mountcastle went 4 for 5 on Saturday night 

He did but my intense scrutiny of the boxscore shows they were all singles.

Is he barreling the ball and driving it?

 

 

[Bahama O's Fan]

What is Mountcastle's numbers since coming back, being platooned and mostly hitting against lefties?

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[webbrick2010]

He give the O's a HR bat, something they definitely need more of

[btdart20]

They are clearly limiting his PAs against RHP.  11 PAs vs. RHP and 14 PAs vs. LHP.  He has started 3 times against RHP and 3 times against LHP.  Of the 4 games he has pinch-hit in, 1 was a LHP SP and 3 were RHP SP.  It could be a pitcher type (slider heavy, FB/CH, etc.) that they are probably also layering into the sit/start decision too.  

I like the way Mountcastle and O'Hearn's splits complement each other.  It allows us to start strong and have a strong matchup bench option as well.

[Frobby]

I think Mountcastle is swinging a little better since his return than he was in the several weeks before he went on the IL.   However, he’s just as impatient as ever.  He hasn’t drawn a walk in the 25 PA since he returned and I’ve seen him swinging at the first pitch and/or swinging at pitches outside the zone a ton.  I’m fine with this platoon situation for now, but I don’t think Mountcastle is a long-term piece for this team.

On another note, was anyone surprised that Mountcastle’s homer was measured as longer (451 feet) than the one Gunnar hit on Sunday (446 feet)?