Corbin Burnes 2024

[IPlayGM]

19 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

The guy K’d 5 and BB’d 3 against a weak, non-contending offense, coming off a game vs the worst team in the league allowing 3 R on 7 H & 2 BB over 6 IP, and we’re now ready to open up the checkbooks for a blockbuster deal?

I know what you’re saying, it does feel like he has somewhat underperformed so far this year…….…

 ………and his ERA is 2.35, and no more than 3ER in any game, and you have a chance to win every game he pitches. This is an ACE in 2024, so yeah, peeps are ready to pay the man his money. A 5 year period where you can go Burnes, Bradish, GRod in the playoffs would be pretty sweet.

[Frobby]

5 hours ago, Hallas said:

I think Burnes gets 5 days rest because of the off day tomorrow so it seems like a good spot to push him a little.  He only threw 107, so its not like we went Dusty Baker on him.

 

I mentioned that I think Hyde has to manage our starters a little less delicately with our bullpen sucking.  It looks Hyde is inclined to agree with this.

He got the right opportunity. 88 pitches going into the 7th.  Gotta stick with your starter there if he’s throwing well.  Last year Burnes threw 107 or more 5 times, and 100+ pitches 11 times.  He threw 88 or fewer 4 times.   

[Just Regular]

The game state also helped Burnes get the 88-107 rope...I believe a closer score would have been more aggressively bullpened.

As we start the 30 games in 31 days (I'm mentally reclassifying May 31st as June 0th for the quirk), the bats can provide the staff a little help by providing some cruise control scenarios.

[Rbiggs2525]

Does anyone think it’s possible that Corbin Burnes selected McCann to be his catcher? Last 2 games have been against RHP and McCann has started. 

[DirtyBird]

9 minutes ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

Does anyone think it’s possible that Corbin Burnes selected McCann to be his catcher? Last 2 games have been against RHP and McCann has started. 

Yes. 

[Malike]

11 minutes ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

Does anyone think it’s possible that Corbin Burnes selected McCann to be his catcher? Last 2 games have been against RHP and McCann has started. 

Yes, likely for his defense.

[interloper]

Loved him going 7 and 100+. It's nice to have a guy Hyde feels comfortable doing that with. 

Burnes is starting to look more dominant now. 2.35 ERA and most of his numbers are trending better than 2023 with exception of the K-rate. 

Edited May 30 by interloper

[spleen1015]

He was pretty adamant that he was going to pursue FA after going through arb before 2023. He was on Foul Territory a day or 2 after he was traded to the O's and he wasn't as adamant. He did say as of that moment he still wanted to be a FA, but he said things could change.

Here's a clip that starts with AJ asking him about it.

 

[Allan Bryant]

14 minutes ago, spleen1015 said:

He was pretty adamant that he was going to pursue FA after going through arb before 2023. He was on Foul Territory a day or 2 after he was traded to the O's and he wasn't as adamant. He did say as of that moment he still wanted to be a FA, but he said things could change.

Here's a clip that starts with AJ asking him about it.

 

They really need to sell him on about staying with us , the teammates, the fans, the community, etc.  If Mr Ruby succeeds signing Burnes ?  That would be a statement to the rest of baseball world 

[Malike]

1 minute ago, Allan Bryant said:

They really need to sell him on about staying with us , the teammates, the fans, the community, etc.  If Mr Ruby succeeds signing Burnes ?  That would be a statement to the rest of baseball world 

Not if it costs us being able to sign Gunnar.

[G54377]

Yea I'd start with a Gunnar extension as priority #1, although you may need to get Adley first in the formality of it. We don't know what the payroll plan is. Would love it to dish out a Burnes extension but there's really no way to know if that would change the outlook for other money spent. It's not my money though, go ahead and throw that bag out there.

[Allan Bryant]

3 hours ago, Malike said:

Not if it costs us being able to sign Gunnar.

You have a good point there.  If they feel/believe they can’t afford both of them onto team payroll, then they might as well prepare the Qualified Offer paperwork . Then recoup the compensation draft pick next year 

[oriolediehard]

10 hours ago, IPlayGM said:

I know what you’re saying, it does feel like he has somewhat underperformed so far this year…….…

 ………and his ERA is 2.35, and no more than 3ER in any game, and you have a chance to win every game he pitches. This is an ACE in 2024, so yeah, peeps are ready to pay the man his money. A 5 year period where you can go Burnes, Bradish, GRod in the playoffs would be pretty sweet.

I hope our new owner is willing to spend what's necessary to keep us a contender long term. Including signing Burnes.

[dystopia]

10 hours ago, IPlayGM said:

I know what you’re saying, it does feel like he has somewhat underperformed so far this year…….…

 ………and his ERA is 2.35, and no more than 3ER in any game, and you have a chance to win every game he pitches. This is an ACE in 2024, so yeah, peeps are ready to pay the man his money. A 5 year period where you can go Burnes, Bradish, GRod in the playoffs would be pretty sweet.

I guess people just expected 7-9 innings, 1-2 runs from him every start or something. His ERA is a full run lower than last year's, his FIP is 0.80 lower (for those who give a **** about that awful stat), his walk rate is lower, and his HR rate is lower. So he's actually overperformed if anything. People just had unrealistic expectations, but so far Burnes has pretty much met them for everyone not named DirtyBird.

[Frobby]

5 minutes ago, dystopia said:

I guess people just expected 7-9 innings, 1-2 runs from him every start or something. His ERA is a full run lower than last year's, his FIP is 0.80 lower (for those who give a **** about that awful stat), his walk rate is lower, and his HR rate is lower. So he's actually overperformed if anything. People just had unrealistic expectations, but so far Burnes has pretty much met them for everyone not named DirtyBird.

I’d say Burnes has been more consistent but less spectacular at his best than I expected.  He literally hasn’t had a truly bad day, has never had an early exit, and he’s been very good the vast majority of the time.  He’s literally given his team a chance to win every time he’s taken the ball.  But he hasn’t gotten past 6 innings as often as I might have expected, and he hasn’t had many outings that have blown me away.  

On balance, though, we’ve gotten everything we paid for and more.