Did Adam Jones really win the AL Gold Glove in CF last year? Sure doesn't look like the same guy.
ORIOLES
Gold gloves are a joke.
James wrote:
Should have re-signed Joe Saunders!
$6M gets you 2-3 with a 5.25 ERA.
Update: 2-4 with a 6.15 ERA!
7-4 West Coast road trip is sweet. Bang your Rally Monkey.
Shemp wrote:
Did Adam Jones really win the AL Gold Glove in CF last year? Sure doesn't look like the same guy.
I'm okay with him not being as perfect in the field this year if he keeps up the hitting!
Shemp wrote:
7-4 West Coast road trip is sweet. Bang your Rally Monkey.
19 - 13 is a pretty swell record knowing that they have only had 12 home games and 20 road games so far.
vansmack wrote:
But fear not - you've got Anaheim soon, and we're great for starters going deep.
Tillman - 8 IP
Gonzalez - 6 IP (would have gone 7 if he wasn't injured)
Garcia - 6.2 IP (would have gone further if it wasn't his debut, 78 pitches…)
Hammel - 6 IP
Hammel would've gone further if it wasn't for the blown call on Trout at 2B extending the 1st inning too.
Shemp wrote:
Hammel would've gone further if it wasn't for the blown call on Trout at 2B extending the 1st inning too.
I had the pleasure of not watching the Halo's the past 5 days so I can't comment, but I don't doubt it one bit that every pitcher could go into the 7th against this team. And a Halo's stater is lucky to get through 5.
1 game back!!!!
Never thought I'd say this, but can the O's have Mark Reynolds back?
James wrote:
Never thought I'd say this, but can the O's have Mark Reynolds back?
Odd man out. Didn't want to be a DH. Hell of a start though.
James wrote:
Never thought I'd say this, but can the O's have Mark Reynolds back?
Funny. I'm trying to deal him as quickly as I can right now in Fantasy. He'll hit 30 HR's, sure, but do you know what his BA is going to be in the next 4 months to fall from .300 to .230? No thanks and somebody will overpay for him.
At the end of the season you'll be happy you have Machado and Davis for $4 million and not Reynolds for $6 million ruining your clubhouse over playing time. You can always deal for a bat at the trade deadline.
I wasn't suggesting having him take away at bats from Machado or Davis. I want to DH him in place of Reimold. And if he could play second base…
vansmack wrote:James wrote:
Never thought I'd say this, but can the O's have Mark Reynolds back?
Funny. I'm trying to deal him as quickly as I can right now in Fantasy. He'll hit 30 HR's, sure, but do you know what his BA is going to be in the next 4 months to fall from .300 to .230? No thanks and somebody will overpay for him.
At the end of the season you'll be happy you have Machado and Davis for $4 million and not Reynolds for $6 million ruining your clubhouse over playing time. You can always deal for a bat at the trade deadline.
James wrote:
I wasn't suggesting having him take away at bats from Machado or Davis. I want to DH him in place of Reimold. And if he could play second base…
But he would because as Shemp pointed out, he wants to play in the field, yet he's an atrocious fielder. You don't need that in your clubhouse. You needed Thome to teach Reynolds the value of DH, but with the expansion of interleague play, Reynolds knew it would diminish his value.
Second base? He had the most errors of any 3B in 2011 (statistically he was close to the worst fielder in the last 10 years in 2011 at ALL positions), had the worst range amongst 1B last year, and he would never be allowed to go anywhere near the middle infield. But I did get a good laugh out of that.
Oh I wasn't suggesting putting him in the field. Sign him and play him where you want to play him. It's the manager's call what position the player plays, not the players call, right? That's why I played right field in little league.
vansmack wrote:James wrote:
I wasn't suggesting having him take away at bats from Machado or Davis. I want to DH him in place of Reimold. And if he could play second base…
But he would because as Shemp pointed out, he wants to play in the field, yet he's an atrocious fielder. You don't need that in your clubhouse. You needed Thome to teach Reynolds the value of DH, but with the expansion of interleague play, Reynolds knew it would diminish his value.
Second base? He had the most errors of any 3B in 2011 (statistically he was close to the worst fielder in the last 10 years in 2011 at ALL positions), had the worst range amongst 1B last year, and he would never be allowed to go anywhere near the middle infield. But I did get a good laugh out of that.
James wrote:
Oh I wasn't suggesting putting him in the field. Sign him and play him where you want to play him. It's the manager's call what position the player plays, not the players call, right? That's why I played right field in little league.
Actually, that reminds me. His option was declined at $11 million so clearly he wasn't worth the $11 million given that he signed for $6 million elsewhere, and the O's couldn't sign him until May because they non-tendered him, just in case nobody else signed him and they got stuck with the bill.
He clearly would have created problems given his desire to play the field and Showalter didn't want him in the club house causing problems. That's the best way to deal with millionaires.
I was thinking that as well as the O's are doing, they still can ill afford a major injury. And now their best pitcher goes down. Ouch.
I can't stand Mark Reynolds. He will be back hitting around .200 before the season is out. With his usual 200 strike outs and a ton of errors. The guys who replaced him at third and first our doing a lot better than him anyway. Let him botch a bunch of plays in Cleveland we are doing just fine without him.