Friday, September 22: Orioles face Guardians and Shane Bieber (just off the IL)

[allquixotic]

Just now, Chavez Ravine said:

He should be in some secretive Swiss clinic with that tech Bro that wants to live forever.

Or getting the stem cells from the Dominican or wherever, like Bartolo Colon did. He practically grew a new arm.

[Tony-OH]

1 minute ago, Winter said:

im trying to figure out how the Orioles made 47 errors and the box score only says 2

Truth. The game scorers now a days are terrible. Everything is a hit.

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, allquixotic said:

Or getting the stem cells from the Dominican or wherever, like Bartolo Colon did. He practically grew a new arm.

Colon got busted for steroids.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

Just now, baltfan said:

He needs regular work. The problem with him closing is that he can’t necessarily get it. 

If Cano needs to to pitch more often to be effective then pitch him more often and go with closer by committee. He's obviously not handling just being the closer very well and sitting for days at a time.

[ONUOsFan]

Three days ago we won a series on the road against the defending World Series champs after winning the last two games against the Rays. We are still likely to win the division.

Chill.  

[baltfan]

4 minutes ago, Winter said:

This isn't how you want to be playing going into the playoffs. 

Lots of examples of teams struggling going into the playoffs and then winning it all.  It only matters if it causes the team to doubt itself. 

[Malike]

1 minute ago, MDK02 said:

He’s sucked for months now. It’s really nothing new.

He hasn't sucked, he just isn't a strikeout pitcher and has no business closing games.

[SteveA]

2 minutes ago, MDK02 said:

He’s sucked for months now. It’s really nothing new.

Yeah he really sucked in August when he gave up one run the entire month in 13 appearances.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

Just now, Tony-OH said:

Truth. The game scorers now a days are terrible. Everything is a hit.

Game scorers grade on a curve these days when it comes to giving errors to fielders.

[allquixotic]

Just now, Can_of_corn said:

Colon got busted for steroids.

Did they reverse all of his records and accomplishments from the MLB? Did his years of effective pitching not count for the teams he played for? Were his suspensions not barely a blip on the radar compared to how long he played?

I'm not saying that cheating is right. I'm saying that, the way the rules are, cheating is "profitable". Just like when a company breaks the law and is fined something like $25,000 but made millions on the violation.

[Hank Scorpio]

1 minute ago, eddie83 said:

Not why they lost tonight. 

They lost tonight because they were terrible defensively but also the ball was getting hit pretty hard. 

At the same time Irvin sucked tonight for Norfolk. 

Big picture is pretty good…. but I wish I hadn’t watched this disaster this evening. 

[Uli2001]

I was sure Cano would shut them down 1-2-3. Silly me.

[gtman55]

4 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

The Irvin decision continues to look awful.

There's something weird when it come to Irvin. He started the year poorly and we send him down. He comes up and overall had been decent. Yet somebody ... pitching coach... Hyde... Elias... seems to hate this guy. They treat him like crap IMO.

[oriolediehard]

In 2014 we traded for a dominate reliever in Andrew Miller that help get us to the AL Championship game, we didn't do that this year, it looks bad with our tired BP.

[baltfan]

1 minute ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

If Cano needs to to pitch more often to be effective then pitch him more often and go with closer by committee. He's obviously not handling just being the closer very well and sitting for days at a time.

Maybe they need to do that.  Most sinkerballers lose movement if they are too strong.