Corbin Burnes 2024

[Three Run Homer]

10 hours ago, Billy F-Face3 said:

Thanks for the share. I love this statement. But Burnes will have something to say about it too and he's been pretty consistent + transparent in expressing his intent/desire to test free agency.

Hopefully he will have so much fun winning this season that he'll want to stay.   From a distance at least it looks like the O's have a good clubhouse vibe.  

[sportsfan8703]

Happy Corbin Burnes Day. Don’t be too down. 

[Just Regular]

Relieved he got his turn in.

Brandon Hyde, please don't pitch Cole Irvin in Fenway Park.

[sportsfan8703]

Burnes is a horse. With our young bats, he really makes the most sense to extend. 

Edited April 4 by sportsfan8703

[interloper]

Only 3 Ks is a bit weird, but he looked fine considering the delay and weather. And the Royals are once again a pesky pain in the ass team to face. Really, really glad we got the series win before hitting the road. 

[OriolesMagic83]

10 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Burnes is a horse. With our young bats, he really makes the most to extend. 

Might be able to extend Holliday and Grayson for the same amount.

[Pickles]

1 hour ago, interloper said:

Only 3 Ks is a bit weird, but he looked fine considering the delay and weather. And the Royals are once again a pesky pain in the ass team to face. Really, really glad we got the series win before hitting the road. 

The Royals look to be much improved this year.

[Mooreisbetter27]

Just now, Pickles said:

The Royals look to be much improved this year.

Sometimes you have to give the other team credit.  They fouled off a lot of pretty good pitches and spit on some pretty good pitches.  

[Malike]

The Royals are going to be good this year. We were a 100-loss team that was a joke and suddenly won 83 games. The Royals have a lot of talent and I think we see that kind of jump from them this year.

Burnes battled when it mattered and the Royals seem to make a lot of contact in general.

[Pickles]

1 hour ago, Mooreisbetter27 said:

Sometimes you have to give the other team credit.  They fouled off a lot of pretty good pitches and spit on some pretty good pitches.  

I was impressed with them overall.

They sure don't look like a losing team to me.

[TommyPickles]

31 minutes ago, Malike said:

The Royals are going to be good this year. We were a 100-loss team that was a joke and suddenly won 83 games. The Royals have a lot of talent and I think we see that kind of jump from them this year.

Burnes battled when it mattered and the Royals seem to make a lot of contact in general.

Yea they're a fun team. Lots of speed and good mix of vets and promising young guys.

[Tony-OH]

Burnes was exactly what we had hoped for in ace last night. He's the guy when he didn't have his A-stuff or A-command, kept his team in the game when they weren't hitting ball at all. Gave them 5 2/3 innings and left the game down only 2-0.

That is exactly what "aces" do when they don't have their best stuff/command. I was impressed with how he battled and how he made pitches when he needed to.

[LTO's]

Swing and Misses:

Burnes - 13

Ragans - 13

 

[byrdz]

3 hours ago, interloper said:

And the Royals are once again a pesky pain in the ass team to face.

Aren’t they? They always seem to have speedsters on half the team. 

[Say O!]

Burnes has that *dawg* in him.  It was fun to watch him battle.  Excited for the next “Corbin Burnes day.”

Despite yesterday’s low strikeouts, his stuff was solid in terms of movement/spin and still got 13 swings & misses (btw more than his debut vs Angels of 12 and same number as Ragan’s last night)

But I thought he/McCann were getting too predictable in terms of pitch locations, and not as varied in quadrants.  Against, KC it seemed nearly everything to righties was low/away whereas against LAA he went up in the zone more with cutter and didnt try to spike the curveball below the zone all the time.  Here are the baseball-savant illustrators from these two games.