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...
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...
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...
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...
