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

new ownership? new hot shit prospects? new beefs? can adley, gunnar, cedric and the gang improve on 2023? without felix bautista?! we shall see.

good luck. we're all counting on you

great thread title

no doubt, this song will be in my head all season

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCB-SQJLr9E

Sorry--wrong thread x 1000!

Wouldn't blame you if you want to petition to get that removed.

They can improve on 2023 by going deeper in the playoffs. As with last season, pitching is the big concern.

xp stop posting the bad billionaire in the good billionaire thread

They can improve on 2023 by going deeper in the playoffs. As with last season, pitching is the big concern.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, February 1, 2024 9:04 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Exactly. This team played over its head last year and isn't an AL East winner in its current form. But this team plus a #1 starter and one more effective starter is a really different team equipped to make a run.

there's just sooooo much talent on the current 40 man roster and just on the cusp. it's almost silly. hard to imagine they're not in the mix even without a big signing or trade. curious what they do w/ hall and wells (bullpen or rotation?) and how they divvy up high leverage appearances b/w cano, kimbrel and tate...or if tate is able to regin his 2022 form.

Wouldn't last year's Pythagorean luck be offset by a great young team getting another year of experience? When does Bautista return?

!!!!!!!!!

Full trade, sources tell me and @kileymcd :

Baltimore receives: RHP Corbin Burnes

Milwaukee receives: IF Joey Ortiz, LHP D.L. Hall and the 34th pick in the 2024 draft

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) February 2, 2024

uh, giddyup.

...just one day out of life.

When does Bautista return?

Current projections say 2025.

Corbin Burnes, jesus christ. i'll bet money they move to lock him up long term, if these new owners are for real.

Wow. Knew things were changing but didn't know it'd happen this fast.

Kyle Bradish had a 2.83 ERA in 2023

Corbin Burnes had a 2.94 ERA in ’22, 2.43 in ’21 and 2.11 in ’20

the last time the Orioles had 2 qualified SP finish with sub-3.00 ERAs in the same season?

1976: Wayne Garland + Jim Palmer

— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) February 2, 2024

That's an astonishingly good trade.

At first glance seems like a pretty great move for both teams. Ortiz is a legit prospect who is going to struggle to find a place in Baltimore's infield. The Brewers get him and DL Hall, who still has real upside, and the Orioles add the one thing they need most, frontline starting pitching; sure he may leave in free agency but the window is the window and this is what you do when you have a chance to win.

welllllll, shit...

So what we've found out in the last five minutes in summary is...

Bradish - right UCL sprain, open the season on IL
Means - month behind, might miss OD
Henderson - oblique aggravation, likely for OD
Basallo- stress fracture, won't catch till April

original sources: @JakeDRill

— Alex Fast (@AlexFast8) February 15, 2024

Damn

holliday...it would be so nice

see you in September, sweet prince~

He did ok in ST I think. No way he’s in AAA for more than a month or two.
Otoh with such an insane amount of prospects anyone could step up and get promoted ahead of him.

O's are logjam city unless they follow the Reds' path of injuries/PEDs or start trading pieces away.

This is the year to win every game you can, it's gonna be a strong division, it's time to put the best guys on the field and Kolten Wong is not the best guys

my guess is up by memorial day. guys get hurt (and mateo and urias seem sort of prone, anyways), schedule will allow for some roster fandango...

oh...wong's opting out, i think.

...and then they signed tony kemp. masterful troll.

anyways, happy opening day. i can't believe the o's have corbin burnes.

liking what I'm seeing guys

I think these O's might be for real

Corbin Burnes, 10th and 11th Ks.

Thru 6.

Making a Statement. pic.twitter.com/ryPzYib1KQ

— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) March 28, 2024

rodriguez nearly punch for punch w/ burnes today. god, this offense, though...

. . . yeah, this offense

I am already seeing that Craig Kimbrel is not gonna be good for my heart

Unfathomable pick up by the O's. Incredibly funny he gets the win for this game.

They were obviously hoping to plug a Bautista-sized hole.

Tbf, the tying run came as a result of two stolen bases.

Let's actually go O's

Wasn't sure about the bunt move, but cooler heads prevail!

sooooo nice...

This box score from the Norfolk Tides, the Triple-A affiliate of the Orioles, is insane 😲

The team features three @MLBPipeline Top 35 prospects, including No. 1 prospect Jackson Holliday. pic.twitter.com/WVu0KfFtpD

— MLB (@MLB) April 4, 2024

But seriously, what are we gonna do? "Too many players you want to see on the field" is a good problem to have, but -- eventually somebody's got to get traded or released, right? But who? And when?

or hurt

Accidents will happen…

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!

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

That is a surprise. Happened with Delgado and Halladay and no doubt many others who came back fine. Hopefully his confidence not too shaken.

heck, cowser came up before the asb last year, got sent back down in august and that was that until spring training. seems okay, too.

One impressive stat is he somehow scored 5 runs despite only 2 BBs & 2 singles.

...and 1 HBP. I guess you could say he's very productive once he gets on base.

Henderson's HR last night makes him the the youngest player ever to hit 10 before May 1st.

Feel like that's a tricky stat as opening day began around April 22 then over time shifted to the second Saturday in April and now in 2024 we had games played on March 28.

...but still impressive!

Still surprised in that he's 22, and there have been a number of Griffey- and Matthews-type players who were already regulars at 19 or 20 (another: Giancarlo Stanton). I would have thought one of them would have done that.

what happened to grayson rod??

first i had heard about the shoulder inflammation that supposedly put him on the dl was...when they put him on the dl. no idea whether or not it's legit.

also curious to see how bradish is used going forward.

feel like this sort of thing is maybe more common these days, but everyone in the o's starting infield today is a former shortstop.

padres too: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danepstein/2024/02/28/the-san-diego-padres-want-to-build-a-lineup-out-of-shortstops/?sh=1f539d423c64

Feel like the A's did that in the Moneyball era (at least moving SSs to 2B/3B)? I know the A's were also starting 3x CFs in their outfield for a while when CFs were undervalued.

San Pedro de Macoris Orioles

Jays send out a veritable Mendoza-Line infield every day.

This team’s pretty good huh

doomers calling last year unrepeatable get off this wild ride please

i like that there was a matchup between Buck Farmer and Heston Kjerstad tonight - the two poles of extremely white names.

lol. o's need a francis winterbottom or somesuch.

I was one of those doomers who thought last year was our best chance to win, but I thought the rest of the AL East would be better this year than they've been, and I didn't think we were going to change ownership and sign a guy like Burnes.

really can't believe the weekend's pitching performances in cincy.

My doominess is now almost exclusively playoff-Kimbrel-focused

strength, my friend. i wish you strength

i'm not stressing at the moment. ask again around memorial day!

My doominess is now almost exclusively playoff-Kimbrel-focused

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 02:15 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I stand in solidarity with you

Fucking Kimbrel!!!!!

well, not great.

Offense bailing him out big time

Maybe not

The no-sweep streak goes on!