Saturday, November 2, 2024

phillyOs119: Rule 5 Target – Burch Smith – RHP

Burch Smith Background Burch Smith is 27, a bit older than the typical rule 5 draft choice. He had TJS in 2015 and just returned to...

HHP: Frobby breaks down the 10 game winner question

Poster glenn_davis pointed out how few times post-Mussina the Orioles had a pitcher they drafted win 10+ games for them in a season. There have...

Orioles Awarded 33rd Pick in 2018 Draft

33. Yeah. Read here And Here!  

HHP: Outs Above Average – Frobby

Statcast has come out with a defensive metric called “Outs Above Average” based on their Catch Probability evaluation for each fly ball than an...
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Arizona Fall League

Read about it here. Mountcastle stars. AZRon on Yesterday I attended yesterday's game at the Peoria Sports Complex (Spring Training home of the San Diego Padres and...

Trading Davis – Paul Coates

I am fairly certain that Chris Davis is wholly untradeable. There are maybe 4 or 5 contracts in baseball that are worse Price: 18:$30M, 19:$31M,...

AFL NEWS 10/10

phillyOs119 10/10/17 The Salt River Rafters won 4-3. Santander DHed and batted 4th and went 1-4 with a 2B and a K. Mountcastle played 3B and batted 5th,...

Projected Orioles Opening Day Payroll 2018 by AZRon

For those who want to play GM, I am presenting the current projected opening day team payroll for the start of the next season....

What Two Trades Will the Orioles Make This Week?

A game and a half behind in the Wild Card? Over .500?  It's a given. Who will they pick up and will it really...

HHP: Sign Him

by Roy Alan Firestone They say you should never think of contracts after someone does something really bad or really good. I get that. It's a long...

HHP: Oriole MiLB Playoffs Races

by Legend_Of_Joey Norfolk Tide: Yeah, about them...17.5 out, 2 games from being eliminated from playoff contention. They were just as bad last year but held...

HHP: spiritof66 asks “Why is Peter Angelos doing the things he’s doing?

In a lengthy August 9 post in the “Astros GM is going to have a long 2 months” thread, I tried to explain the...

HHP: Spiritof66 Untangles the Legal Succession

MLB's owners clearly have the right to withhold approval of the Angeloses owning the team. I don't know whether they would withhold that approval,...

HHP: Orioles Infielder Development

by gfrank What really encourages me about the Tim Beckham trade, even more so than this nice 4-game stretch, is the fact that the Orioles...
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HHP: hoosiers Calls Out Oriole Needs

I believe the need to re-stock the farm system with good talent supersedes the need to fill the shortstop vacancy today with top 10-15...

HHP: phillyOs119 values the trade

I think we are in agreement that the O's should have sold and sold big at the deadline. In that context, I don't like any...

HHP: jdwilde1 on Hellickson Trade

Per Matt Breen of the Philadelphia Inquirer "They still owe Hellickson roughly $7 million, which they will pay in order to sweeten the return." If...

HHP: Frobby on Value

The player who is most valuable (or maybe better said, the biggest upgrade) over a full season is also the most valuable/biggest upgrade over...

HHP: Spiritof66 Interprets Ruling.

I think it's important to comment on what I believe is an erroneous view of the controlling provision of the MASN agreement, Section 2.J.3....

HHP: Roy Firestone Talks Adam Jones and the Orioles

Kirby Puckett once told me that “baseball is a game in the summer…and a business in the winter” Sometimes the business of baseball can be...

HHP: RZNJ Muses on Minors

Yelin Rodriguez, drafted in the 20th round last year and doesn't turn 19 until November has pitched 6.2 innings with 3 hits, 1 HB,...

HHP: Brenan Hanifee by phillyOs119

By: Luke Siler First time seeing Hanifee pitch. Hanifee is tall, slender, still has room to gain good weight but not so thin that he needs...

HPP: PhillyOs119 on Aberdeen

This was my first time seeing most of the players, so I don't want to jump to any conclusions based on one look. Position Players Chris...
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HHP: Frobby’s Sadness

For me, the saddest part of being a fan is watching players who were huge contributors to your team decline to the point where...

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