holliday...it would be so nice (a 2024 orioles)

I was just looking at that AAA lineup and it’s basically the 1927 Yankees. I figure by mid summer they are going to have to deal someone from that backlog for pitching.

Norfolk Tides game free to watch on mlb.tv right now

Norfolk up 10-2 in the first inning

The thing about this team is there are a lot of games Burnes and Rodriguez aren't pitching

I will relax a little bit once Bradish and Means are back

PS the Tides won that game 11-10 in extras after being up 10-0!

I miss Bautista

UGHHHHHHH

bats gotta wake the fuck up, though.

I miss Bautista

I was just talking to my son about this last night. When he came out to close a game last season, there was a high level of confidence that he was going to get it done. The O's really lack that this year, and it may be a difference maker in too many close games.

Baumann was an embarrassment on Saturday.

bradish is starting his rehab assignment. means has looked...meh.

Means may in retrospect be the defining pitcher of the Spidertack Era

Thread namesake getting called up!

i try not to complain about bad calls too much but this is pretty egregious, like at least 3 runs are down to this umpire in the last inning.

Curious as to when all this generational-player hysteria began. I remember a lot of hype for David Clyde's first start in 1973--cover of Sports Illustrated--because he came out of high school. (Hype then not being what hype is today.) After that, I really don't remember anybody until Griffey Jr. came along.

And the SI cover came after his first start, not before.

I feel like there might have been extra hype when the baseball card market started to take off, I just remember everybody getting kinda hyped the same year Griffey was coming up about other guys like Gregg jefferies, Steve Avery, Ty Griffin (lol), etc. Before griffey, there was definitely hype around Bo Jackson but that obviously was of a different nature entirely. Post-griffey, you had other guys but they were a bit less hyped, they had to start to prove themselves in the majors before people fully committed to it. Even someone like Frank Thomas who in retrospect was definitely a can't miss kind of guy.

But I do feel like once you hit 1989, every several years you started to see one or two guys everyone would start to flip out over. Now it's multiple guys per year.

Yeah, of course--rookie-card mania, timed perfectly with Upper Deck's launch and Griffey's arrival.

You can't forget Todd Van poppel or Brien Taylor, I mean the donruss rated rookie cards are probably a good place to look for guys you forgot existed 2 years after their hype was at its peak.

You could have made a fortune on the baseball card stock market investing in and then 3 months later selling off all your jefferies cards.

To state the obvious, it really does put a lot of pressure on someone. Mike Schmidt hit .200 for two seasons without, I'm guessing, drawing a lot of attention. Robin Yount was pretty ordinary for three or four seasons. (As someone who's all over Vlad all the time, I'm being hypocritical.)

I see a parallel between that and the pressure for new-release films to make huge amounts of money immediately.

In more recent times, Joe Mauer was touted as THE REAL DEAL (USA Today HS-POY for both football and baseball but NOT for basketball), iirc he only struck out in one AB in his 4 year HS career, was drafted straight out of HS as #1 pick 2001 and is heading to Cooperstown.

Mauer averaged more than 20 points a game as a point guard for Cretin-Derham Hall.[9] He was also named to the All-State team during his final two years on Cretin-Derham's basketball team.[12]

What an utter disappointment... sheesh.

I honestly think Matt Wieters mania was bigger, at least in Orioles world, than the pre-debut hype around Holliday, Grayson Rodriguez, or Gunnar, with only Rutschman maybe comparable

i was working for milb dot com when wieters came up and it was (insofar as anything involving minor league baseball can be) huge

in my memory, only harper was a bigger deal

could have been you, joey bart

Orioles thread, I know--last mention I'll make of this. I vaguely recall that Bob Horner arrived with a lot of fanfare too:

Horner was drafted by Atlanta with the first overall pick in the 1978 amateur draft, and he made his Major League Baseball debut the same year. He is one of only a handful of players to go directly from college to the starting lineup in the majors without spending a day in the minor leagues. In his first game, he belted a home run off future Hall of Fame pitcher Bert Blyleven of the Pirates.

I went to tuesday and wednesday's sox/orioles games, and yesterday I was seated next to a big orioles fan who flew from baltimore on a moment's notice when he learned jackson holliday had been called up. was pretty cool to be able to see his first game -- hopefully he'll end up being a legend and I can say I was there

This is making the rounds today--check the date.

Matt Holliday's son: Future All-Star.

— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) November 14, 2013

there are some great videos from when he's really little hanging out w/ his dad pregame...nice swing, bat flips...it's a trip.

all the talk about holliday and what a series cowser has had.

113.6 mph EV - hardest hit ball by an Oriole this year

438 feet - furthest hit ball by an Oriole this year pic.twitter.com/oJ9rnGqJCx

— Locked On Orioles (@LockedOnOrioles) April 12, 2024

How about for a Norfolk Tidesman?

lol...mayo's up there

I like that Tony Kemp tweet that's circulating:

In the fall of 2010, our college had a series against the Longhorns for a 3 game set. Our hitting coach at the time was Josh Holliday and his brother, Matt, brought his kid to our early practice. I remember watching his son @J_Holliday7 with a sweet lefty swing. Go get em’ kid!

— Tony Kemp (@tonykemp) April 10, 2024

Seems like a guy you'd want on your team.

(They had to release Kemp to make room for Holliday.)

kemp is a fantastic guy

Well finally.

Amazing catch:

https://www.mlb.com/news/cedric-mullins-lays-out-for-incredible-diving-catch

(Not worth anything on my fantasy team, unfortunately.)

saw some comment about Henderson's high school and looked it up - I guess the movement to rename certain institutions hasn't caught on everywhere...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Morgan_Academy

today i learned about the dong bong

When I was a teen, we used to do those separately. 2nd screen culture has gone too far

Holliday still struggling. Read that his 1-30 start is the worst through 9 games since Gary Disarcina in 1990. (Lifetime Angel...hmmmm, I can make use of that information.)

As truly dreadful as his .033/.094/.033 (.127 OPS) is... it's really the 2BB:16K that's more concerning (should note it was 1BB:15K before yesterday).

He was 138BB:138K for his MiLB career (12BB:8K this year).

Albert Suarez, huh. No MLB appearances since 2017 and 11 scoreless innings in two starts.

definitely curious to see if opposing hitters catch up to suarez. his stuff looks legit to my untrained eyes.

Suarez is surely the Jim Traber of 2024 but I'm enjoying this for as long as it lasts

A name that hadn't crossed my mind in ~40 years.

well, shit...

We have made the following roster moves: pic.twitter.com/gatOuLknN9

— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) April 26, 2024

Fucking Kimbrel!!!!!

well, not great.

Offense bailing him out big time

Maybe not

The no-sweep streak goes on!

just tuned into the orioles game and they had a shot of the new owner walking up and down the aisles in the stands giving out merch from the team store...new era hats, things of that nature. i also blinked and they'd scored a couple more runs.