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My biggest concern is that the guys won't invite Joan Jett into the broadcasting booth to discuss pitching at some point this summer. 

yark14
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My biggest areas of concern: 1. The warehouse windows. 2. A virus infecting Sig's computer. 3. Who is going to buy beer for Jackson after he is called up

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The window to 20/20 hindsight has officially been opened.  This implies that you feel that we have reached the "poor roster management" level already. It's already been established in another thr

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6 minutes ago, One eyed Bird said:

I also have 3 concerns for the season

1- Long relief

2- Short relief

3- Closer

This pen is gone be UGLY

Eh I think Baker Tate and Cano and Coloumbe can be pretty solid in short relief. Kimbrel is who he is. He’ll get the job done in the regular season but it may be scary sometimes. Then some have said Baumann looked good this spring and if so, we can slot him into a higher leverage situation. 

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6 minutes ago, joelala said:

Eh I think Baker Tate and Cano and Coloumbe can be pretty solid in short relief. Kimbrel is who he is. He’ll get the job done in the regular season but it may be scary sometimes. Then some have said Baumann looked good this spring and if so, we can slot him into a higher leverage situation. 

Baker stinks

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14 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

Baker stinks

He’s looked very good this spring. You won’t allow for the possibility that he has a good year? The FO clearly likes him and they’ve done a pretty good job so far in most facets. 

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9 minutes ago, joelala said:

He’s looked very good this spring. You won’t allow for the possibility that he has a good year? The FO clearly likes him and they’ve done a pretty good job so far in most facets. 

Baker was just optioned to start the season.

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Who is this Burns guy we speak of?  And, don't get me started on Hayes.   Or, Ohearn, Kramer and Irwin.

Pet Peeve - seeing players names misspelled.

Side note - I never saw anyone butcher more names while broadcasting games as Brooks Robinson did, but he did it in the most adorable and innocent way, that we had to love it.

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34 minutes ago, Legend_Of_Joey said:

Baker was just optioned to start the season.

I’m sure he’ll see significant major league time this year.  I hope he’ll be better in 2024 than he was last year, especially in handling inherited runners.

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Grayson and Kremer’s velo was definitely down early in spring training, and I haven’t seen them in Statcast games recently. I won’t be too concerned if they come out in their first starts and the velo is close to normal. But they did have much bigger workloads last year than in their prior seasons so that will be a concern that it’s a sign something is not quite right physically if it’s lingering.

We are really relying on those two now down Bradish and Means and can’t afford to have them take a step back from last year.

Beyond that I’m not particularly concerned about any one player, although I think the team really needs another reliever or two to step up to being reliable setup guys with Cano and Coulombe. 

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While I think the Yankees will give him the most money and he'll sign there, I would not be surprised to see the Orioles make a run for Jordan Montgomery once the season starts. Especially if he's willing to do a 1-2 year deal with an opt out similar to Snell, but for less money.

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1 minute ago, Orioles0615 said:

Pitching depth and poor roster management are going to be their undoing if things go wrong 

The window to 20/20 hindsight has officially been opened.  This implies that you feel that we have reached the "poor roster management" level already.

It's already been established in another thread that not having Holliday, Kjerstad and Mayo on the opening day roster will cost us 8 wins in the first 30 games.

This Elias guy doesn't seem to have a clue. 

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I wouldn't be putting too much stock into spring performances.  We see it every year and hear the same complaints from fans, "Player X doesn't look right," "... should be replaced,"  etc.  Then the real games begin and things typically normalize.  This doesn't mean some observations are invalid, but rather that most are soon forgotten. 

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2 hours ago, Sanity Check said:

The window to 20/20 hindsight has officially been opened.  This implies that you feel that we have reached the "poor roster management" level already.

It's already been established in another thread that not having Holliday, Kjerstad and Mayo on the opening day roster will cost us 8 wins in the first 30 games.

This Elias guy doesn't seem to have a clue. 

Don't come crying when Mateo and Nevin or Mckenna is hitting under .200 and Urias is underwhelming again. God forbid you don't drop your pants for dear leader Elias 

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