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3 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

I'd prefer Burnes and Adley be prepared to work together in a playoff game this season over having McCann in a playoff game lineup.

Me too. 

And I'd like for enough other righties to be hitting well (Mr. Mayo perhaps...) to make McCann C Adley DH a completely unappealing choice in October. 

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Ah, another year of second guessing the lineup every single day!  

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I don’t know why people keep lumping O’Hearn in on posts like this. The guy had one of the few over .800 OPS on the team last year. He’s not remotely the problem. 

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I heard that he was initially scheduled to be DH, but told Hyde, “if Burnes doesn’t want me to catch him, then I don’t wanna play!”  Then he was seen softly sobbing in a corner of the locker room.   

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1 hour ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

Looks like Burnes very well may have selected McCann as his catcher.

The O's appear to think they will be bringing in a LHP, in which case McCann is usually the starter. You are right though, McCann has been starting the majority of Burnes starts lately.

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1 hour ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

Looks like Burnes very well may have selected McCann as his catcher.

To date, Burnes has a 2.37 ERA when McCann catches him and 2.34 with Adley.   So, I don’t know why Burnes would care, but maybe he does.

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20 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

The O's appear to think they will be bringing in a LHP, in which case McCann is usually the starter. You are right though, McCann has been starting the majority of Burnes starts lately.

I don't think so. Sounds like they plan to use Bowden Francis in bulk relief. Burnes just hates Adley and his meeting at the baseline at the conclusion of each inning.

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1 hour ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

Looks like Burnes very well may have selected McCann as his catcher.

I think they use their best pitcher with their least potent offense to balance out the odds.  

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1 hour ago, Aristotelian said:

The O's appear to think they will be bringing in a LHP, in which case McCann is usually the starter. You are right though, McCann has been starting the majority of Burnes starts lately.

I don't think so.   I've heard the bulk pitcher is Bowden Francis, a righty.

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2 hours ago, Just Regular said:

Four in a row is mostly a quorum but I'll wait for six or seven before fact checking if Eddie Perez drew Braves playoff starts over Javy Lopez for Greg Maddux's sake.

 

I only looked at 1997, but Perez did indeed catch each of Maddux's starts in the playoffs. Not sure why, but in one game, Perez started and Lopez PH for him in the first inning.

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14 minutes ago, SteveA said:

I don't think so.   I've heard the bulk pitcher is Bowden Francis, a righty.

Odd that our lineup would appear to be the RHB stack. Richards is a slight reverse split guy but not severe. He last pitched in relief of Manoah, a LHP no longer on the roster. I would have to guess a lefty will be coming in for Richards. We will see.

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2 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

Odd that our lineup would appear to be the RHB stack. Richards is a slight reverse split guy but not severe. He last pitched in relief of Manoah, a LHP no longer on the roster. I would have to guess a lefty will be coming in for Richards. We will see.

For the sake of accuracy, Manoah is a RHP.

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1 minute ago, Aristotelian said:

Odd that our lineup would appear to be the RHB stack. Richards is a slight reverse split guy but not severe. He last pitched in relief of Manoah, a LHP no longer on the roster. I would have to guess a lefty will be coming in for Richards. We will see.

Probably just due to Burnes hating Adley, Hays hitting 2 HR last night and Mountcastle history in Toronto. 

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