Vance Honeycutt

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

lol.  My god your arguments are awful. 
 

 

If you whoosh on an analogy a fourth grader would have recognized don't blame the messenger.

[OriolesUpAndDowns]

Any trends in his K's?  Swinging through pitches in the zone? Out of the zone?  Striking out looking?

[RZNJ]

2 hours ago, OriolesUpAndDowns said:

Any trends in his K's?  Swinging through pitches in the zone? Out of the zone?  Striking out looking?

Not sure.  3 more K’s tonight in 4 PA.   Getting ugly.    He can’t be this bad.      He’s got thru Sunday to turn this from abysmal to just bad.    

[glenn__davis]

I'm pretty bearish on him.  I don't think their track record with these types of guys is as good as they think it is.

But what he does in these few weeks is pretty irrelevant IMO.  Just get some reps, then work on things in the offseason.

[RZNJ]

7 minutes ago, glenn__davis said:

I'm pretty bearish on him.  I don't think their track record with these types of guys is as good as they think it is.

But what he does in these few weeks is pretty irrelevant IMO.  Just get some reps, then work on things in the offseason.

I don’t think it’s defining but I definitely think it’s relevant.

[glenn__davis]

4 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

I don’t think it’s defining but I definitely think it’s relevant.

That's fine if you do.  Since they moved the draft back these debut years in the same draft just don't mean much to me.  There's barely time to get back into rhythm.

Like I said I'm not really trying to defend him because I didn't love the pick.  But his performance in a few weeks of games means very little to me.

[Moose Milligan]

Waiting to see what he looks like next year before making any proclamations. 

[Sports Guy]

6 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Waiting to see what he looks like next year before making any proclamations. 

It makes more sense to freak out now I think.

[RZNJ]

26 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

It makes more sense to freak out now I think.

Who is freaking out?   No one.

[RZNJ]

Our 1st round pick has struck out 21 times in 48 PA.   At Aberdeen, he’s 0-12 with 8 K’s.   Those are facts.   Your opinion could be that those numbers mean nothing or they are cause for concern but there’s nothing wrong with talking about it.  It’s news.

[OriolesMagic83]

1 hour ago, Sports Guy said:

It makes more sense to freak out now I think.

I try to save my freaking out for game threads.  

[OriolesMagic83]

58 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

Our 1st round pick has struck out 21 times in 48 PA.   At Aberdeen, he’s 0-12 with 8 K’s.   Those are facts.   Your opinion could be that those numbers mean nothing or they are cause for concern but there’s nothing wrong with talking about it.  It’s news.

Time to promote him to Bowie.  It must be the lighting at Aberdeen.

[Rbiggs2525]

1 hour ago, RZNJ said:

Our 1st round pick has struck out 21 times in 48 PA.   At Aberdeen, he’s 0-12 with 8 K’s.   Those are facts.   Your opinion could be that those numbers mean nothing or they are cause for concern but there’s nothing wrong with talking about it.  It’s news.

Would make everyone feel better if he was hitting 300 and striking out under 30% of the time. If he’s doing this through 100 AB next season I’ll start to worry. I think there is something to be said about shutting down for a month after long college season, then starting back up. Not making excuses for the kid.

[Sports Guy]

10 minutes ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

Would make everyone feel better if he was hitting 300 and striking out under 30% of the time. If he’s doing this through 100 AB next season I’ll start to worry. I think there is something to be said about shutting down for a month after long college season, then starting back up. Not making excuses for the kid.

It’s obviously not the start you want to see…but it’s also largely a nothing burger

[doccat]

He can’t make any type of contact at all or even put a ball in play in the low minors.

 

I find that completely alarming for a high profile college junior taken in the first round.  
 

But a large percentage of first rounders don’t ever make it…. Even guys picked at 1-1.