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5 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Honestly, what's the point in saving Cowser's rookie status?

The performance bar for winning RoY has become very high and does a player like Cowser have a realistic chance in this day and age?

Moreover, they didn’t seem so concerned when they called him up before. 

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It should tell him he's not a first baseman.

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It should be noted that just because Heston is on the way to Baltimore doesn’t mean that he will be called up.  They might have in Baltimore just in case things look bad on an MRI for Mounty 

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Yes I made a typo, which I corrected my next comment below.

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38 minutes ago, Orioles Jim said:

 

I have a theory on who's getting demoted

 

I was wondering if maybe they could feel better about the status of the bullpen now after Gibson gave them a good start last night. If so they could be willing to get Irvin back up here so they have a true long man, even though he may still be unavailable for another day or two. Mountcastle to the IL and recall Irvin, Vespi down for Kjerstad. 

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13 minutes ago, RVAOsFan said:

 

I don't think Kjerstad will get much playing time but I hope they give him a start this weekend and see if maybe they can get lucky and catch lightning in a bottle.  Rookie or not if Kjerstad started his pro career on a heater that would be huge for us right now.

We got a nice jolt from Trey Mancini in 2016.  He was called up on Sept. 20 and hit 3 homers in the 5 games he played.  

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3 minutes ago, Brian88 said:

I was wondering if maybe they could feel better about the status of the bullpen now after Gibson gave them a good start last night. If so they could be willing to get Irvin back up here so they have a true long man, even though he may still be unavailable for another day or two. Mountcastle to the IL and recall Irvin, Vespi down for Kjerstad. 

Now that he’s been sent down, Irvin can’t return for 15 days unless he’s replacing an injured player.  

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8 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Honestly, what's the point in saving Cowser's rookie status?

The performance bar for winning RoY has become very high and does a player like Cowser have a realistic chance in this day and age?

As for #2, how does that scan with him not promoting Adley and Mountcastle when they were finishing the year at AAA?

I am not going to make an argument one way or another for why they should try and retain Cowsers rookie status for next year but I have a hard time believing if he is eligible he won't be mentioned as a preseason contender for the award.

As for #2, the window to compete wasn't viewed as open yet so those guys probably got held down longer to preserve service time.

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10 minutes ago, baltfan said:

No chance he cares about Cowser’s status enough to call up someone who he believes is inferior for the most important games of the years

Yea, this is a good point.  Maybe he views them as equal and Kjerstad has more tools that he is looking for on the current roster construction.

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51 minutes ago, Brian88 said:

I was wondering if maybe they could feel better about the status of the bullpen now after Gibson gave them a good start last night. If so they could be willing to get Irvin back up here so they have a true long man, even though he may still be unavailable for another day or two. Mountcastle to the IL and recall Irvin, Vespi down for Kjerstad. 

Someone has to get DFA'd for Kjerstad unless Mounty is a 60-day IL. I could see Vespi getting the whole ass DFA. But hopefully it will be someone like Krehbiel. 

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43 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Unless we're getting blown out or we find ourselves up a bunch of runs, I don't think it's gonna happen.

But that's not going to stop people from crying about it anyway.

Until he goes down 0-2 in the count in his first at bat, the shine comes off, clearly can't handle MLB pitching, and he needs to be traded for anybody that'll take him.

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