Albert Suarez 2024

[Roy Firestone]

4 hours ago, interloper said:

He reminded me a little of Koji out there. Dotting a fastball over and over and rarely squared up. 

I liked Hyde's shout out of the scouting dept in the post game.

Hyde's comment about the  scouts was classy and unselfish.A real organisation man giving praise to his fellow staff members shows great humility and integrity.

[Orioles West]

I had a chance to see him pitch during the spring for my week of visiting Sarasota. Looked decent there too, but I didn’t think much of it, as I didn’t see a lot of room for him on the roster.

It’s a great story (so far) and I’ll just roll with his first start and hope he has a few more quality starts in him. Even if not, it’s a good story for a guy who hadn’t pitched at this level in so long.

[Just Regular]

MLB probables now listing him jumping ahead of Grayson tomorrow, which would answer the question how to get both our top guys into the Yankees series.

https://www.mlb.com/orioles/roster/probable-pitchers

[DirtyBird]

2 minutes ago, Just Regular said:

MLB probables now listing him jumping ahead of Grayson tomorrow, which would answer the question how to get both our top guys into the Yankees series.

https://www.mlb.com/orioles/roster/probable-pitchers

Hyde confirmed this after the game today

[LookinUp]

You have to wonder how long this guy can stick. It would be a very Orioles thing to find this guy out of nowhere and have him be a legitimate number three starter for most of the year.

[Three Run Homer]

He has thrown some legitimately nasty pitches tonight.  His screwball to strike out Trout with a runner in scoring position in the 3rd inning was epic.  Barring injury, I think he's going to stick with the team in some role for the rest of the season.  

[eddie83]

Have to be very happy with that. Looks solid so far. Great timing with no Wells and Bradish and Means still out.  

[Say O!]

44 minutes ago, Three Run Homer said:

He has thrown some legitimately nasty pitches tonight.  His screwball to strike out Trout with a runner in scoring position in the 3rd inning was epic.  Barring injury, I think he's going to stick with the team in some role for the rest of the season.  

Yeah the stuff plays at this level and with swing + miss (he got 16 tonight).  Whether as 5 and dive starter or leverage reliever, Suarez will have key role going forward.

Edited April 23 by Say O!

[Spy Fox]

Suarez has been legitimately impressive. Lots of whiffs. In both games he looked tired late in the outing but then helped save himself with impressive defensive plays. 

[Billy F-Face3]

Solid performance and he's a credit to the Orioles front office. Not only to find him, but to call him up and give him an opportunity even when his statistics in Norfolk were not impressive.

[Rbiggs2525]

Small sample size but very reminiscent of Cano last year and almost the same pitch arsenal. When the team really didn’t have anyone to turn to they stepped up.

[EddeeEddee]

The way he's pitched it will be difficult to move him to the pen when one of Wells, Bradish or Means comes back. 

[PeteCanes]

Regardless what happens moving forward, this dude has stepped up when we needed some quality innings.  

[Moose Milligan]

1 hour ago, PeteCanes said:

Regardless what happens moving forward, this dude has stepped up when we needed some quality innings.  

Exactly right. 
 

Gotta see what happens when the book gets out on him but he’s been absolute nails so far. 

[PeteCanes]

Regardless what happens moving forward, this dude has stepped up when we needed some quality innings.  

47 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Exactly right. 
 

Gotta see what happens when the book gets out on him but he’s been absolute nails so far. 

Even more impressive, basically walked out of a Korean rice paddy and went toe to toe against Pablo Lopez and Detmers no less.  
 

Suarez fan forever based on two starts.  

Edited April 23 by PeteCanes