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Did he get a bag of honey roasted peanuts?

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Rosters are expanding, not as if calling him up is sending someone else down. Gives him a chance to work with the ML coaches and further acclimate to the majors.  

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Yes, the Westburg injury created an opportunity. It looked like Mayo may have been the best option to help the team if he could hit. He didn't. At that point the extra two weeks of Mayo wasn't worth g

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12 minutes ago, Jim'sKid26 said:

If you are looking at his skillset in an entirely objective manner, he plays primarily at DH in 2024 at the MLB level. Unless you believe he's an adequate defensive 3B at the MLB level, and I would love to hear why you would think that, his defensive value is meaningless this year. You want his bat in the lineup. The O's have guys who can play 3B. I've heard no one describe him as even an adequate 1B at the MiLB level, so that seems like a no go for a team trying to win the division or make the play offs. 

While he hasn't had much opportunity in RF this year (and therefore shouldn't be thrown out there in the middle of a playoff race either), I think his best potential position is RF. It's just going to take most of the off season and spring training in 2025 to get him ready to play there. His arm is very powerful and seems to fit just fine in RF. To me, he's a RF. Is he going to be elite? Probably not. But if he's adequate defensively his bat will win the day. Just my $0.02

Give him all the at bats at DH that Jimenez is currently getting.

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24 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

It's not about anything he did in the two weeks he was down. It's about ROY eligibility. If the rules were different he probably would have stayed.

Again, if it’s about the ROY, then why bring him up early August?

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55 minutes ago, waroriole said:

So if you’re so worried about retaining his ROY status for next year, why call him up on August 2? Why not wait until mid August when he’d still retain it for next year? What if he didn’t suck when called up? Elias was ok with losing the status then?

They brought him up initially because Westburg was out. They were most likely going to send him back down regardless of how he hit in order to retain rookie eligibility. 

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20 minutes ago, Jim'sKid26 said:

As I said, I doubt he's an elite RF. He's way too young and athletic to dismiss entirely, IMO.

Mountcastle is/was a much better athlete and his time in the OF was an abject failure.

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1 minute ago, Jim'sKid26 said:

Mountcastle did not have the arm to play the OF. It had almost nothing to do with his athleticism.

He didn't have the arm for left side of the diamond.  Worse arms survived in the OF.

He was not a smooth enough runner/nimble enough for the OF and he is/was far more so than Mayo.

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1 minute ago, Pickles said:

He didn't have the arm for left side of the diamond.  Worse arms survived in the OF.

He was not a smooth enough runner/nimble enough for the OF and he is/was far more so than Mayo.

I disagree with you. I also know that there is nothing that I can say that will change your mind. Can we agree to disagree?

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They brought Coby up early August because of Westy's injury. They were apparently willing to burn his ROY status for 2025 if he carried his AAA stats to the majors. SSS however he looked over matched. So they decided to send him back down and not burn his ROY eligibility for next year. He is a top prospect. His hitting tool is probably going to always exceed his fielding tool. He's young - he's an Oriole - he's probably going to still struggle - but I'll be rooting like all get out he catches fire and Roy can say I told you so. 

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