Sept 17 -- Suarez vs Cy Snell.

[casadeozo]

1 minute ago, terpoh said:

If Skubal for Mayo was ever on the table in July and we turned that down... 

lol it wasn’t 

[SteveA]

Geez just checked the score and stats.  I'm at a concert between the opening act and the headliner.   Glad as hell I'm not able to watch this exercise in futility.  A salute to those of you who are still in front of the TV.

[O's84]

At least Akin is soaking up some innings.  Hopefully we can save the pen for the other 2 games of the series.

[Tony-OH]

Just now, Surhoffan17 said:

We have hitting coaches? When did that happen. They appear good at writing stuff down.

When you hire a guy who was a highschool teacher-coach with one year experience in professional baseball as a coach, and another with what, three years as a minor league hitting coach, you don't exactly have guys with a lot of experience with helping guys get out of slumps.

The Orioles have gone to the technocoach without offsetting that with actual professional hitting coaches with real experience.

[Jagwar]

2 minutes ago, Billy F-Face3 said:

Just think, we could have had Blake Snell and be winning, if we were weren't so cheap.

Who exactly do you think SF was asking in return for him?

[HardlyRocked]

5 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

The fact that Mayo has made ZERO adjustments has me concerned. He constantly pulls off the ball and looks to be trying pull every pitch over the left field fence. He has zero chance of hitting offspeed or right hand breaking balls. 

What are the hitting coaches working with him on? Are they working with him?  

That is the exact same thing that Holliday did when called up, and is still doing.  Just from the opposite side of the plate.   It is obviously something the Orioles are teaching. 

[Billy F-Face3]

Thinking about how Irvin got claimed off waivers, while I'm seeing Burch Smith warming up, I am extremely disappointed with how this team has been run since the middle of the summer approaching the trade deadline.  Rogers is still one of the dumbest trades I've ever seen. And that's among a flurry of dumb decisions. It's like Elias has a secret Borderline Personality Disorder all of a sudden, because that isn't the stability we had grown to appreciate in the previous couple of seasons.

Also, the no drafting pitchers and only drafting bats thing is a failure.

[royalstillman]

1 minute ago, Jagwar said:

Who exactly do you think SF was asking in return for him?

He was a free agent before that.

[Billy F-Face3]

1 minute ago, Jagwar said:

Who exactly do you think SF was asking in return for him?

He was a free agent...

[brooks1083]

Are we missing Westburg that badly? It seems like it was around the time he went out there it went south badly. I know there was already a little slump going into the ASB but to be fair, June was a pretty tough schedule without much time off.

[LA2]

18 minutes ago, Jagwar said:

Significantly?

Jun 17-12

Jul 12-13

Aug 13-15

Sep6-7

31-35 in July/Aug/Sept = .470, which would be last place in AL East, only better than the season record so far of the historically bad White Sox in the Central, and of the A's and Angels in the West (behind Texas).

[O's84]

Just now, royalstillman said:

He was a free agent before that.

But JA was the owner then unfortunately. 

[Jagwar]

2 minutes ago, Billy F-Face3 said:

He was a free agent...

And... at that point the O's were big spenders?

[Tony-OH]

I'm thinking this guy should be getting his resume updated for indeed.

[terpoh]

nice job Slater. LHP killer!