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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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1 hour ago, Tony-OH said:

He has one home run in 73 PAs with the Orioles, and that one was a barely over the wall Coors Stadium home run. I'm not sure why anyone would think the Orioles can fix anyone at the major league level. What person came here and became a much better hitter? 

Just because he had a nice game Friday night and hit a homer yesterday does not change the fact that he's a slow, right-handed DH with limited game power. He has a very empty .723 OPS. He's been worth -0.1 FWAR with the Orioles and has a 88 OPS+.

If the Orioles want to use him as a Benny Ayala type pinch hitter against lefties, cool, but he should not be starting for a contending team and if he's DHing in the playoffs, something has gone wrong.

To part of the first point, he hit that ball 440+. That‘s an 30/30 no-doubter.

And to the last point, which I think is salient here, something HAS gone wrong. Terribly wrong. They’re currently down 3 infield starters from the opening day roster, and they’re also without the top backup IF. The “next backup” IF is now in Miami, and the two kids who were supposed to come up and grab those spots and take the league by storm have been pathetic. It’s not just something wrong — it’s bordering on everything wrong. 

As for the stuff in the middle, I think a lot of folks see Eloy as something akin to Jesus Aguilar. I can sort of see the comparison, but the difference is that Eloy is still only 27 years old. About 18 months ago, he was considered one of the top 100 players in baseball (per ESPN’s baseball staff rankings). Which makes sense, because he was coming off a season with a 141 OPS+ and had posted a career 123 OPS+ through age 25. And because he had serious pedigree as a former top 5 prospect in the game.

He’s always had elite exit velos, and he still does. I have no idea why he was pounding the ball into the ground for such a long time with CWS, but I also know two things: (1) the White Sox are maybe the worst run team in sports and (2) it’s already happening less with us. He was still doing it right out of the gate when he got here, with a 65.0% GB rate in his first 2+ weeks here. But since then, that number is down to a very reasonable 38.9%.

If they can really remedy that launch angle issue, I think he returns to being a very good hitter. Hits the ball extremely hard, very reasonable K rates, the gift of squaring a lot of balls up despite high bat speeds. He doesn’t give you anything else aside from hitting — but that’s a pretty big thing to provide.

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If I remember right, Eloy also had a HR taken away by Coors that would have been out of the majority of parks. Reminds me of some of the guys we used to carry on the Buck-Dan teams who could hit just enough to be interesting but had zero other baseball skills. I'm glad we have mostly gotten away from those guys but there might be room on the expanded roster for one lefty mashing Geronimo Berroa type who could get a big hit for us when needed.

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On 8/31/2024 at 1:00 PM, 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?

If I recall correctly, there was an injury that justified him being called up. Then when he sucked so badly, it justified sending him back down. I would think if he was great, then who cares about the rookie status but he wasn’t. 

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26 minutes ago, Il BuonO said:

“He's been working really hard behind the scenes at third base, so I'm excited to see him come back,” first-base coach Anthony Sanders said. 
 

Good to know he’s been working on his defense. 

Was he not working hard behind the scenes before?  

Rhetorical question as I know its just coach speak.  

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