Adley Rutschman 2023

[sevastras]

And to be clear, I think there is almost zero chance of the team being moved even if they openly expressed a desire to do so, which they have not. 

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, sevastras said:

I own a business right now that I am in negotiations to sell while I am telling the current employees who are hearing rumors, “I am not actively trying to sell the business.”  It is semantics, but I am being honest with my verbiage. 

Sure.

I just think the current plan is to suck as much money out of the team as they can before they have to sell due to the inheritance tax.

[RZNJ]

11 minutes ago, sevastras said:

I own a business right now that I am in negotiations to sell while I am telling the current employees who are hearing rumors, “I am not actively trying to sell the business.”  It is semantics, but I am being honest with my verbiage. 

Eh.  No offense.  It’s ok to lie but that’s what you’re doing to your employees. It’s business. I get it but please don’t try to spin it like you’re being honest with them.

[sevastras]

2 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

Eh.  No offense.  It’s ok to lie but that’s what you’re doing to your employees. It’s business. I get it but please don’t try to spin it like you’re being honest with them.

It wasn’t actively for sale when I received an interested party offering more than current market value and isn’t actively for sale now. If the terms don’t materialize, everything is status quo. 

[RZNJ]

7 minutes ago, sevastras said:

It wasn’t actively for sale when I received an interested party offering more than current market value and isn’t actively for sale now. If the terms don’t materialize, everything is status quo. 

Well, you could tell your employees exactly that but I guess you have a good reason not to.

[interloper]

I wanted to note something I saw in last night's game that showed Adley's leadership qualities. 

Hyde came to get Kremer after he allowed the single with 2 outs. Kremer, who was already pitching with an edge all night, was obviously not pleased about the yank. In the mound huddle while Hyde approached, Kremer nearly walked off the mound before Hyde arrived, but Adley stopped him by putting his glove hand to Kremer's chest and you could clearly see him say "wait, wait". Adley could see Kremer was heated and prevented him from showing up his manager by leaving the mound early. Also, you never know - Hyde could be coming to say a few words and leave Kremer out there. It's rare but it does happen on occasion. 

Either way, a great leadership moment from Adley. He protects his pitcher from doing something he'll regret later, he shows respect to the manager, and he shows intelligence by understanding the manager doesn't always pull the pitcher at the mound. 

Adley is legit. 

Edited April 19, 2023 by interloper

[Just Regular]

How far would a Club go in wooing a franchise player by recreating elements of the Buster Posey life experience?

https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/mlb/diamondbacks/2023/04/20/madison-bumgarner-designated-for-assignment-by-diamondbacks/70134835007/

I would be entertained by trying Bumgarner rather than Cole Irvin as a length pitcher for a couple games when next the need for that kind of guy arises.

From The Athletic podcast guys, I loosely understand Bumgarner isn't friendly to many of these newfangled ideas, and mostly I think its time and the game continuing its undefeated streak.    The impression I also got though is Bumgarner himself doesn't think he's done, no matter what the recent results indicate.

Having had a little taste of Kyle Gibson's end of innings Adley treatment, I admit some curiosity to see what would happen with this particular pitcher.

[Bemorewins]

18 minutes ago, Just Regular said:

How far would a Club go in wooing a franchise player by recreating elements of the Buster Posey life experience?

https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/mlb/diamondbacks/2023/04/20/madison-bumgarner-designated-for-assignment-by-diamondbacks/70134835007/

I would be entertained by trying Bumgarner rather than Cole Irvin as a length pitcher for a couple games when next the need for that kind of guy arises.

From The Athletic podcast guys, I loosely understand Bumgarner isn't friendly to many of these newfangled ideas, and mostly I think its time and the game continuing its undefeated streak.    The impression I also got though is Bumgarner himself doesn't think he's done, no matter what the recent results indicate.

Having had a little taste of Kyle Gibson's end of innings Adley treatment, I admit some curiosity to see what would happen with this particular pitcher.

I hope that we are beyond the need for taking gambles on these type of flyers. 

We don’t need a “has been” at this point, what we need is an “is”… As in a guy who “is” a top pitcher not used to be.

[Sydnor]

Adley was on the Foul Territory Podcast yesterday, and it was mostly just a chat between Adley, Jones, and Erik Kratz. At one point Jones tried to ask Adley if there had been any talks regarding an extension. I’m not sure that Adley totally understood the question because of the way Jones asked it, but he said “no.” The Adley interview started around 32:15.

 

[MurphDogg]

2 hours ago, Bemorewins said:

I hope that we are beyond the need for taking gambles on these type of flyers. 

We don’t need a “has been” at this point, what we need is an “is”… As in a guy who “is” a top pitcher not used to be.

If he wants to go to Norfolk to try to find what he lost then I have no problem with it. There may be a team who would let him do so at the big league level though, but it won't be the Orioles.

[Billy F-Face3]

6 hours ago, Sydnor said:

Adley was on the Foul Territory Podcast yesterday, and it was mostly just a chat between Adley, Jones, and Erik Kratz. At one point Jones tried to ask Adley if there had been any talks regarding an extension. I’m not sure that Adley totally understood the question because of the way Jones asked it, but he said “no.” The Adley interview started around 32:15.

 

I like the way Jones revealed some details about how his own extension talks went back then. Seeing Adam Jones reminds me of how he was my favorite Orioles player during the Buck Showalter era.

[OriolesMagic83]

On 4/18/2023 at 9:55 PM, Chavez Ravine said:

And Chris Davis. Although Peter was competent back then.

Peter was competent to make decisions then, just not baseball decisions.  Whether you have good or bad memories of Peter, I think he would have definitely tried to extend Adley. 

[btdart20]

16 hours ago, Billy F-Face3 said:

I like the way Jones revealed some details about how his own extension talks went back then. Seeing Adam Jones reminds me of how he was my favorite Orioles player during the Buck Showalter era.

Jones was my favorite too.  Only strike against him (actually all three) was the low/away slider...

[maybenxtyr]

13 minutes ago, btdart20 said:

Jones was my favorite too.  Only strike against him (actually all three) was the low/away slider...

I was a big time Jones fan. 

 

Seeing Schoop come to town makes me remember how much I liked him in Baltimore too. They were some fun teams.

[spleen1015]

Adley didn't look comfortable at all while Adam was trying to ask the question and when answering.