Correct about the O’s trying to contend while bringing along position players at the same time.
Too many posters here think that minor league stats immediately translate to major league play. Seldom do. Players at that are promoted to AAA usually move pretty much in tandem with other players that started in the minor leagues with them. But when they hit the majors they’re competing against players that have played at that level for years, and sometimes a decade or more. The game is faster. The tricks competitors routinely deploy are seldom seen at the minor league level.
I loved the O’s in ’22, ’23’ and half of ’24. Their position players had learned to play strong fundamental baseball. But they started rotating veterans to the bench and then off the roster. The young players surely are the future; but the O’s defense, baserunning, and situational hitting began collapsing as the youngsters got more playing time on ’24. This was on display the first few games of this season. And it’ll get worse as Mullins and Mateo are surly gone after the season at the latest; while O’Hearn, Urías, and Mountcastle may not be in their future for much longer.
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Brenden Hyde is a solid ML manager. He’s succeeded being patient yet firm with young players to get them to play winning ML baseball.
Figured the O’s would take a step back in ’25. Fortunately they were not dumb enough to sign a name starting pitcher to an excessive long-term contract, whereby if the man gets injured they may be stuck with a bad contract for years. They did the smart thing and built up the bullpen – which is fine since MLB is now a bullpen
game anyway.
As noted, not all top prospects succeed. The O’s FO knows that from past experience. They were smart to hold onto all their top prospects to find out who will be long-term O’s.
If I had been waiting 12 weeks in a row to have my question answered in chat I would have come up with something better than that question. This one was like waiting in line for six hours to sit on Santa Claus’ lap only to ask him for a new pair of socks for Christmas.
I was wondering if somebody would be kind enough to explain to me what “run value” means and what it’s trying to measure for example “(Bryan Woo) ranked in the top percentile in the league in walk rate. He also was in the 93rd percentile in pitching run value, the 95th percentile in fastball run value and the 94th percentile in xERA.”
I’ve been following baseball for decades yet I have never really encountered this concept at all until the last couple years. It’s also such a generic term that I’m having a hard time even Googling it. Anybody use this ‘run value’ concept ?
Marky Mark, you’ve got the moderator link up.
This is the moderator log in link
A Rod. Really? He is a cheater.
Pads have Marinaccio, Kolek, Cosgrove, Patiño in AAA… all optionable. Maybe they add, but I’d say at the TDL as opposed to “now-ish”
Hopefully, Hoeing, Reynolds, Waldron and Darvish all back in a few weeks as well.
Whatever someone may think of that group, reality is that SD had all 4 penciled into a roster spot.
Great point LT! SD’s BP is strong imo.
Correct about the O’s trying to contend while bringing along position players at the same time.
Too many posters here think that minor league stats immediately translate to major league play. Seldom do. Players at that are promoted to AAA usually move pretty much in tandem with other players that started in the minor leagues with them. But when they hit the majors they’re competing against players that have played at that level for years, and sometimes a decade or more. The game is faster. The tricks competitors routinely deploy are seldom seen at the minor league level.
I loved the O’s in ’22, ’23’ and half of ’24. Their position players had learned to play strong fundamental baseball. But they started rotating veterans to the bench and then off the roster. The young players surely are the future; but the O’s defense, baserunning, and situational hitting began collapsing as the youngsters got more playing time on ’24. This was on display the first few games of this season. And it’ll get worse as Mullins and Mateo are surly gone after the season at the latest; while O’Hearn, Urías, and Mountcastle may not be in their future for much longer.
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Brenden Hyde is a solid ML manager. He’s succeeded being patient yet firm with young players to get them to play winning ML baseball.
Figured the O’s would take a step back in ’25. Fortunately they were not dumb enough to sign a name starting pitcher to an excessive long-term contract, whereby if the man gets injured they may be stuck with a bad contract for years. They did the smart thing and built up the bullpen – which is fine since MLB is now a bullpen
game anyway.
As noted, not all top prospects succeed. The O’s FO knows that from past experience. They were smart to hold onto all their top prospects to find out who will be long-term O’s.
A step back from zero playoff series wins in the past 3 seasons. A step back because the starting pitching is embarrassing.
Mark, even though you said in the chat that you published your staff picks for subscribers, its not there. No staff picks published in last week.
I got it sent to my inbox on March 26th. There was never any posting of the Staff Picks here on the site.
I received the staff picks a week ago.
An email does not equal published.
If I had been waiting 12 weeks in a row to have my question answered in chat I would have come up with something better than that question. This one was like waiting in line for six hours to sit on Santa Claus’ lap only to ask him for a new pair of socks for Christmas.
I was wondering if somebody would be kind enough to explain to me what “run value” means and what it’s trying to measure for example “(Bryan Woo) ranked in the top percentile in the league in walk rate. He also was in the 93rd percentile in pitching run value, the 95th percentile in fastball run value and the 94th percentile in xERA.”
I’ve been following baseball for decades yet I have never really encountered this concept at all until the last couple years. It’s also such a generic term that I’m having a hard time even Googling it. Anybody use this ‘run value’ concept ?
Its a StatCast value.
Reds and Giants: George Foster
By the way Joe Morgan is a Red’s legend.
Mark, glad to see at the end of the chat that, baby, you got a stew going.