The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

The problem with Volpe was that he had too good a spring training for the Yankees to be able to justify sending him down. Had he just been OK, they could have justified the demotion to Triple-A and said he just needed more time.

Volpe has talent and tools, but at times he looks lost at the plate. He would have benefited from starting at Triple-A, but the Yankees wanted to avoid a riot from their fans.

 

I know this question was in response to a mix-up of Volpe and Henderson, but yeah, Henderson was arguably the best prospect in the game.

 

Henderson had some defensive struggles upon his recall last season, mostly because the Orioles were moving him all over the infield. Then he struggled a bit with the bat to start this year. He's 21, it'll happen. He's not going to sustain his current June pace (.483, 1.035 SLG, 5 HR, 11 RBI), but he's a lot closer to that player than the one who hit .189 with a .311 SLG in April.

Fun time to be a Baltimore fan. Still have the No. 1 farm system in baseball. The guy I'm watching is Grayson Rodriguez, who showed flashes but seemed overwhelmed at times during his first stint in the bigs this year. I don't think the Orioles recall him until they're sure he's gotten things completely turned around in Norfolk because another tough major league stint would be really damaging to his confidence.

 

I wonder if Bieber isn’t a fit in Baltimore. They have the prospects Cleveland would want and he’d give the O’s a playoff-ready starter to plug into that rotation. They’d also have control over him next season.

 

I think Baltimore's gotten to where it is by resisting the urge to dump its prospects. They just might go the course and count on who's coming soon.

And although they didn't start the season great, a short-series rotation of Gibson-Wells-Kremer doesn't look too bad right now.

 

That'd require the Orioles to pay Bieber. Baltimore hasn't shown any inclination of following Houston's path by starting to pay for dudes once they emerged from tank city.

 

This is very true.

 

St. Louis was one strike away from a win it really needed when Little Yaz launched a Gallegos fastball 420 feet to tie the game 5-5. It's now 8-5 in the top of the 10th, and it's got to be killing Marmol. Wasted a rare quality start from Jordan Montgomery, too.

 

If this season doesn't change the way the Cardinals do business, nothing will. Their constitutional aversion to paying for pitching has been a problem for years — Scherzer wanted to be there when he left the Tigers (?) — and it's made the franchise a shell of its former self. Continuing to sign middling starters has not worked out. Doing that will never work out.

 

The most ESPN of ESPN stats from Facebook. How many teams have been under .200 with at least 25 games played? The 1962 Mets? 1988 Orioles?

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The Oakland Athletics are the first MLB team since 1895 to win seven straight after entering the streak with a sub-.200 win pct (min. 25 games played)

 

Early, but Baltimore has nothing off Jose Berrios through six.

EDIT: Rutschman busts it up in the seventh, but Jays still up 1-0.