Official Orioles Fan Thread

[Mattsurewood]

Originally Posted by excel_b

Just heard this through Baltimore Orioles on X 30 minutes ago:

Tony Kemp is DFA

Can someone please confirm VandyCards is ok...devastating news.

[excel_b]

Originally Posted by Jaypers

JH will be wearing #7.

The video of him getting the news was just tweeted by the O's account.

Got the blessing from the Ripken family - last person who worn #7 was Cal Ripken Sr.

[Ianhatcher]

Unfortunately I'll be out of town this weekend but hopefully can go to one of the Twins games early next week. Would like to have gone to his home debut game.

[SleepyWill]

Is there an Adley page here on BO?

[panthers59]

Trying to pick up a Holliday Debut ticket to go with my Adley. Would like to add a Gunnar as well here soon

[finfangfan]

I will be at the game today to hopefully see an Orioles win and Holliday’s first career hit! Should be a good pitching matchup as well.

[rippev]

Another moonshot from the milkman!

[cardsin47]

Originally Posted by finfangfan

I will be at the game today to hopefully see an Orioles win and Holliday’s first career hit! Should be a good pitching matchup as well.

You got your wish …….

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by cardsin47

You got your wish …….

It was a great game! Like my buddy said, it was almost a must win game at this point. Would have been horrible to have been swept at home. Hopefully Holliday is able to relax now that he got his first hit out of the way.

[finfangfan]

Two weeks from last post and I’m heading back to the game today. I was hoping Holliday would settle in after nabbing his first hit but looks like the minors will be the best for him for now.

Will be fun to see Suarez pitch today. He’s been solid in his first 2 outings and it’s a cool story that he was able to work his way back into the majors after such a long absence.

I love going to games but one bad thing about the Orioles recent success is that you now have to deal with long bathroom and concession lines. It used to be so easy.

[Stifle]

Young solid team. They have built from within almost like the Astros. It took time to become winners but they have arrived.

[teosdesserts]

Kimbrel does it again

[finfangfan]

Yeah… Kimbrel is horrible. Who is next in line? Tate?

[cardsin47]

Originally Posted by Stifle

Young solid team. They have built from within almost like the Astros. It took time to become winners but they have arrived.

As long as our players don’t situationally start banging on trash cans, we should have a contending, scandal free Team for years to come .,,,

[bavariancream]

Originally Posted by finfangfan

Yeah… Kimbrel is horrible. Who is next in line? Tate?

Would guess Cano. Tough back-to-back losses to A's.

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by bavariancream

Would guess Cano. Tough back-to-back losses to A's.

We actually won Saturday’s game and dropped Fri and Sun, but I get what you are saying. We should have swept this series. Kimbrel doesn’t look like he can be relied upon at this point.

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by finfangfan

We actually won Saturday’s game and dropped Fri and Sun, but I get what you are saying. We should have swept this series. Kimbrel doesn’t look like he can be relied upon at this point.

I would have thought the Yankees would have swept the A's too. I hate scrappy little teams who overplay against good teams like the Yankees and orioles.

[panthers59]

Cano hasn't done well in save opportunities so not sure I would trust him

[bavariancream]

Originally Posted by panthers59

Cano hasn't done well in save opportunities so not sure I would trust him

Not sure who the better candidate would be. Good situational middle relievers on the roster, but don't know any ideal closers in that bunch. Povich in AAA, but prob wouldn't want to dump him right into the fire.

[TheFrenzy]

Congratulations!

[panthers59]

Danny C shutting the door on the yanks tonight

[finfangfan]

Which of the young guys gets their contract extended first? I think we need to lockdown Grayson as he looks like he’s a legitimate ace. But will we be able to afford extending him, Gunnar, and Adley? Probably not.

And I can see all of them wanting to test the market when they become eligible.

[Imnottheonly]

Originally Posted by finfangfan

Which of the young guys gets their contract extended first? I think we need to lockdown Grayson as he looks like he’s a legitimate ace. But will we be able to afford extending him, Gunnar, and Adley? Probably not.

And I can see all of them wanting to test the market when they become eligible.

It’s interesting because this isn’t a Bobby Witt situation where one single guy is the hope of the franchise so backing up the truck for 12 years and near 300 million for Gunnar probably ain’t gonna happen, never say never but with the youth the O’s have locking up that much of your payroll when you’re trying to leverage the fact you’ve got a lot of affordable guys under control might be awkward.

As Spencer Strider just showed giving a lot of money to any young pitcher is a massive risk, and with the rate of TJ on the climb it doesn’t seem like the best approach.

That leaves Adley as the most likely candidate and he’s under control until 2027 when he will be 30 so as a catcher that’s his one chance to cash in, unless they do something that maybe buys out his first two years of Free Agency. I could see something like that potentially 6 years/110 mil where your looking to buyout his arb years and 2 prime years but he can reach FA and still have enough tread to sign another fairly big deal.

Time will tell if this is a mid-2010 Cubs situation where you leverage the youth to win a title but can’t manage the contracts and control in a way to sustain it. Or more akin the the current Braves situation where you’re aggressive and able to lock up a lot of your core and then make acquisitions around the edges. Maybe a longer window but alot less flexibility.

[finfangfan]

Maybe Webb can be the new closer? Tonight he looked really sharp!

[teosdesserts]

Originally Posted by finfangfan

Maybe Webb can be the new closer? Tonight he looked really sharp!

I'm a huge fan of using the right guy based on rest and L/R matchups in the 9th rather than having a guy attached to an inning with no statistical reasoning for it myself. He was the right guy for tonight and killed it.