August 7: The Orioles announced today that Rodriguez has been placed on the 15-day IL with right lat/teres discomfort, retroactive to August 4. Left-hander Keegan Akin was recalled in a corresponding move. Additionally, outfielder Heston Kjerstad was placed on the IL with a concussion, retroactive to August 1. He was optioned to the minors on that date but this IL placement presumably rescinds that option.
August 6: Orioles right-hander Grayson Rodriguez was scratched from his scheduled start against the Blue Jays due to what the club later announced as “right lat/teres discomfort.” As noted by Matt Weyrich of The Baltimore Sun, Rodriguez began to warm up for his start this evening before appearing to say to pitching coach Drew French, “I don’t feel right.” Rodriguez left the field for the clubhouse after the conversation and was replaced by right-hander Albert Suarez as the game’s starter. Rodriguez is returning to Baltimore to receive further evaluations and have imaging done on his right lat, manager Brandon Hyde told reporters (including Weyrich) following the club’s loss to the Blue Jays this evening.
Details regarding the severity of Rodriguez’s discomfort are minimal, so it’s unclear at this point if the right-hander will require a trip to the IL or when he could next be expected to take the mound. After all, the righty’s discomfort will surely bring to mind his stint on IL due to shoulder inflammation earlier this year that ultimately lasted nearly three weeks. Rodriguez also has a history of lat issues, having dealt with a lat strain as a prospect back in 2022 that ultimately cost him three and a half months.
Regardless of how long Rodriguez ends up missing, the news is a worrying development for the Orioles just one week after the trade deadline as they gear up for a run at their second consecutive AL East crown and another postseason run. Injuries in the starting rotation have been frequent in Baltimore this year. The club lost three starters (Kyle Bradish, John Means, and Tyler Wells) to UCL surgery back in June and has also previously saw right-hander Dean Kremer spend time on the shelf in addition to Rodriguez’s aforementioned shoulder issue early this year. Those injury woes led the Orioles to stock up on starting pitching depth ahead of last week’s trade deadline as they swung deals to bring right-hander Zach Eflin and lefty Trevor Rogers into the fold.
While those additions helped to shore up the club’s shaky back of the rotation, losing Rodriguez for a significant period would be a deeply worrisome outcome as the 24-year-old has emerged as the club’s clear #2 starter behind ace Corbin Burnes. Rodriguez has generally pitched quite well in the sophomore season of his career with a decent 3.86 ERA in 116 2/3 innings of work across 20 starts that’s matched with even better peripheral numbers. He’s struck out 26.5% of batters faced while walking just 7.3%. That’s left him with a strong 3.67 FIP and an even better 3.60 SIERA, the latter of which is good for top 25 among all qualified starters this year and slightly better than Burnes’s own 3.71 figure.
Should Rodriguez end up missing time, it seems likely that the club would turn to Suarez to take over his spot in the rotation on a more permanent basis. The 34-year-old journeyman last appeared in the majors back in 2017 before the Orioles brought him in on a minor league deal and added him to their roster, but he’s done well in a swing role since then, with a 3.75 ERA in 15 starts including his five scoreless innings of work filling in for Rodriguez this evening. Other options to replace Rodriguez in the rotation (or Suarez in a long relief role if he returns to starting) would be youngster Cade Povich, who has struggled to a 6.27 ERA in eight starts in the majors this year, and lefty Cole Irvin, who was recently outrighted off the 40-man roster. Top pitching prospect Chayce McDermott, who made his big league debut in a spot start earlier this year, may have been a possible candidate to help fill in for Rodriguez in the majors but the club announced earlier today that he’s been placed on the minor league IL with a stress reaction in his right scapula earlier today.
Tough break for the O’s. Their pitching is getting pretty thin.
More like poor planning by the O’s ! They haven’t had enough pitching since they became competitive and they constantly just do the bare minimum everytime.
Whiffa, I’m a Yankee fan so I’m not lamenting their poor planning. They seem to have a bright future but I was surprised they didn’t go more “all in”. I still remember the Baby Bombers and how that window closed with no rings.
Really? At the start of the season we had the best rotation the baseball. Your clueless.
No you didn’t. You also left yourselves thin. We’ll see how the year plays out.
It was not the best opening day rotation. Not even top 3.
It wasn’t the top but it was fairly deep. We had 7 guys to start. Means, Bradish, Irvin, G-Rod, Kremer, Wells, Burnes.
With Povich and McDermott as potential guys who could step in. Worse case scenario happened all around but the pitching depth wasn’t horrible. We started last year with far less depth.
Only an idiot would think the O’s didn’t have enough pitching depth to start the year. Four starters going down is enough to kick any team in the guts. Ask the 2023 Rays.
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*you’re
The O’s did not do nearly enough to acquire elite pitching. They had to give up good prospects for that and they refused. The only elite pitcher they got (Burnes) will be gone in 2 months.
We will see how those decisions will turn out for them.
Really 3 starters. Hardly anyone considered Wells a starter. It was in the bullpen where the depth seemed especially thin.
“Difference without a distinction.” Wells had a decent run in the rotation at one point before petering out after far exceeding his historic IPs. If the replacement rotation pitchers throw just 4 innings a start for instance (Povich) then the bullpen depth is going to have even more pressure to perform while being overtaxed. Never in a million years would I have ever thought that Albert Suarez’ surprising contributions being so critical to Baltimore’s hanging in there this year. He is well beyond the projections and his contributions have been massive.
Incorrect. Wells is historically a starter in the minors and was quite successful as a starter in 2023. He’s only spent 1.25 years in a bullpen in his entire career.
Incorrect. Wells was successful as a starter in 2023 for a while. Then he fell apart in the summer and had to be sent to the minors in August for nearly two months. When he returned in late September it was as a reliever.
In the minors before TJ & Rule 5 he was a starter.
And regardless, Mike Elias & Brandon Hyde said multiple times in spring training that Wells was being viewed as a starter. “Still.”
Wells started games even this season in 2024, but I don’t think it’s because he was really viewed as a serious starter anymore. He started games because Bradish and Means were both out and because they hadn’t yet tried Suarez in the rotation. And he only started three games, taking away a 5.87 ERA. I agree with those criticizing the O’s staff for not doing enough to get more pitching, but I think the bullpen was an even more pressing need than the rotation. Having said that, an opening day rotation that includes Tyler Wells and Cole Irvin is fine when you believe Kyle Bradish and John Means would be back soon. And they were back pretty soon but unfortunately didn’t last; but then again neither did Tyler Wells, which wasn’t that surprising. The O’s probably needed another starter to begin the season, but they needed more help in the bullpen considering Wells was in the rotation instead of the bullpen, where he would have been more effective — and all they otherwise did to replace losing Felix Bautista and DL Hall was go and get Craig Kimbrel.
Wells was the best Oriole starter of 2023 pre-ASB. And led baseball in WHIP.
Nothing else you say is valid until you can grasp that core concept that losing Wells is, indeed, losing a starter. And a long-man, and a closer. He could, and has, filled all three roles successfully.
And Wells completely ran out of gas after that after that. His last three starts of July 2023 he gave up 11 runs in 9 innings — 2 of those games he barely made it through 2 innings..
Then he got sent to the minors where he only started three games out of ten total appearances and never made it 4 innings in those three starts. He was a reliever from that point forward in 2023. After he got promoted back to the O’s in September he was only used out of the bullpen.
He was used as a starter in 2024 only because Bradish and Means were hurt at the time. He got hurt after three games and Suarez and Irvin appeared more effective as starters not long after.
Elias and Hyde said he was being considered a starter going into ST 2024.
Nothing you say changes the fact that losing Wells is, indeed, losing a starter.
BS…they had 7 potential starters at one point. You can’t overcome 4 starters going down. Bradish, Means, Wells and now potentially Rodriguez.
Why can’t we have nice things?
you could, but your franchise didn’t want to part with some minor leaguers for some studs to make a serious playoff run.
Thanks for the laugh. they could have traded for Crochet, Skubal, Luis Robert, I’m sure if they gave up enough, some others could’ve been available for the right price. sure you can hold on to everyone but then you’re not going to play them all anyways. and will lose some of these guys to the rule 5 draft. And yes, I know those guys weren’t traded, but they could have been had for the right price. I’d personally rather my team go after studs they can control who are proven for a better chance to win than stand pat and the same thing keeps happening. If you think Efflin is your answer, well, I’ve got some bad news coming for ya in October. you do understand that this is a blog of opinions, correct?
Who did the White Sox trade for giving up a bunch of prospects for known talent? I certainly don’t remember that. I remember them trading away their players for minor leaguers. That hasn’t worked at all, but it’s literally the opposite situation. 1 is buying. 1 is selling. Regardless, my “no clue” opinion still stands. I’d rather my team go for it than not.
So because it back fired on the white Sox that means the Orioles shouldn’t have attempted? Well that’s a loser mentality.
Dodgers have spent last couple years acquiring bigger names at the deadline and got them pretty far in the playoffs if you recall.
Orioles definitely needed pitching and could have gotten Skubal and some high end relievers with their prospects. You look at the padres they went out and addressed their issues in the pen getting Adam and Scott/Hoeing. Cause preller has realized majority of prospects are just that prospects. MLB network did an analysis of prospects traded and about 4% became impact players.
Sometimes the Eflin Rodgers play it safe option isn’t the best approach.
Imagine if the White Sox still had Tatis, Semien and Bassitt. Once prized prospects traded away in attempts to bolster their rotation…
What “studs” were actually available? Because none seemed to change hands at the deadline as far as I can tell.
I guess no one wanted to make a “serious” playoff run this year…
@Joe Kerr Pushing all-in shortens their window years for contention. Just get into playoffs and cross your fingers. The O’s are on their path to the post-season and most likely for the next few years by holding onto their chips.
Yeah your opinions are just rather stupid. IMO
The Orioles have/had an over abundance of infield prospects. More than can play everday. They have a solid offense and can score runs. What they need is pitching. Yes, Holliday is the shiny new object. He is unproven, and is not a pitcher. Boston had the #1 prospect in Moncada. They traded him for Sales, and won a few World Series. Moncada spent a few years on the IL. No one ever knows how prospects will work out. They just traded 6 years of Norby for two years of Rodgers. Is that so different?
The crazier part is they keep holding onto to dudes who are blocked by other dudes.
Sn33, OF Kjerstad, for one, who Elias and Hyde hate, will not play
Kjerstad, Norby, Stowers, Povich, McDermott and all the others who have more value outside Balt coulda gotten you a DYLAN CEASE back in March, before SD got DC.
We all remember on this board ALL the cocky, arrogant, Os fans telling us how Cease sucks, they loved their Kremer and those injured TJ beat up arms like Means and Wells, how Hoarding all these Prospects rather than trading for Cease was best idea – well enjoy Losing with T. Rogers and bullpen bums like Soto.
Cease with Burnes be a perfect 1,2 punch, with Grayson (before injury),
Balts Loss is Padres gain, as SD goes deepe into Oct and Os lose early again with No SPs other than Burnes.
Imagine a GM preferring a bum like Rogers over a SP rock like Cease….ha ha, Elias and the overrated Hyde made their beds, and now have to sleep in it.
“The crazier part is..blocked by other dudes”…It’s amazing how the men and women of the MLB Trade Rumors comments section know so much more about baseball than do the paid professionals who study it and have been working in it their entire adult lives. I guess you think you have the same scouting reports, analytics data, experience, scouts and inside information that they do. It’s a lot harder to make baseball decisions in real time than it is to Monday morning quarterback them in hindsight and after the fact.
The blocked by other guys thing has already worked itself out in almost every case. Via trade or injury.
The only guy without a slot is Kjerstad but he’s also concussed & will have a slot when Santander leaves this off-season.
Even with all the injuries the rotation isn’t really the O’s main problem. It’s the bullpen. Before all the injuries and extra starter seemed like a luxury but the bullpen was where things were too thin, even before Wells got hurt.
What nonsense. Terrible take. Was Sandy Koufax available? Because I didn’t hear about it No needle mover, no ty Blake Snell, was available. This team hits more than enough to stay with anyone. See you in October.
Dylan Cease and Garrett Crochet were both very, very available! Wild to watch these teams try to plan out the perfect dynasty of multiple rings rather than focus on winning the first one, and then figure out the dynasty. Cease and Crochet are both bona fide #1 starters who are making crazy small salaries. Teams need to wake up and understand that acquiring guys like this is the whole point in building up a deep base of kids in the first place. Trade the kids for established talent already under a reasonable contract. Forget about free agency. You will overpay in both $$$$ and years.
Lol @ Very Barry. Cease did not look dominant last year, and Crochet is at his innings limit with a bunch of stupid demands and an injury history. Same with Skubal. You’re clueless.
LOL – “Cease did not look dominant last year”? So that’s what you want out of your GM? Well – his ERA was over 4 last year, he couldn’t possibly help us! Silly “logic”. He was 2nd in Cy Young the year prior and his FIP was good both years – he just pitched in front of an AWFUL White Sox team, which every one of us come here to tell the Os fans.
They all replied with “we LOVE our minor leaguers and Elias and would never trade them for Cease.” And you were all wrong – deal with it.
Nah. Cease’s excellence looked like the outlier, not the rule.
Perfectly happy not to gamble.
Suggest you grow up. You’re howling at the moon and need a healthy outlet for your anger.
How many times have we seen the team that wins the offseason
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That has often struck me as one of the most egregious errors that writers make. Inevitably, no matter how bad the trades or signings are, writers award the winner to the team with the most acquisitions.
Sometimes the moves are atrocious, but the writers still call them winners.
How a pitchers health is going to hold up.
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One more of my favorite errors. Do you know who is risky?
Everyone.
sn33
What “stud” was traded?
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Flaherty is not quite a stud, but has been pitching really well. He was affordable for a team like the O’s.
White Sox are where they are cause they fail to develop guys they draft and sign. Not cause they traded everyone away. Every year you get draft picks and IFAs. You get opportunities to restock the farm. The bad years are ones where you need to hit in cornerstone players and they didn’t.
Look at their draft history in the 1st since 2010
Sale hit
Walker miss
Hawkins miss
Barnum miss
Anderson hit
Rodon semi hit
Fulmer miss
Collins miss
Burdi miss
Burger miss
Madrigal miss
Vaughn miss
Crochet hit
Montgomery Schultz are pretty highly ranked both inside top 10 at mlb.
But white Sox haven’t drafted well at all and their ifa spending hasn’t produced results either.
If you’re not hitting in the first round you need to hit with later picks which is something they haven’t done.
JR89 – so your take is that if the White Sox hadn’t traded Bassitt and Semien, IN 2014 (!), they’d still be on the team and the team would be what, a playoff contender?
They went for it and it didn’t work out. I can deal with that better than what the Os are doing – it would kill me to know that my team had the best offense in the league, position players in the minors blocked because they have TOO much farm system talent, and we trade for Trevor Rogers instead of Skubal. Or skip on Cease, who they could have had in the off-season, because they couldn’t possibly trade Mayo.
I don’t ever like to see players injured, but the Os have made their bed.
@Joe Kerr No one wants to talk about it anymore, but with Bradish and Means clearly risky in spring training, the Os could have easily traded for Dylan Cease if they would have been willing to trade from their stacked farm system. Instead, they decided having 7 infielders and 5 outfielders was better.
Question for the Os fans on this site who fought with me at the time about Cease, saying he wasn’t a good enough pitcher to give up anything substantial in the off-season… Any change of heart now?
Cease is a stud. Skubal is a stud. Crochet (while limited this year, I get it), will be a stud for the next 2 years. Burnes will be gone, the rest of the staff will be returning from arm injuries, and you’ll still have 3 2nd basemen and no pitchers.
Crochet hit
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Crochet is not a hit, at least not yet. He has 9 career wins and only two control years left.
they’d still be on the team and the team would be what, a playoff contender?
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Sure, assuming that they are both 20 WAR players.
Might need to be 30 lol
He was a flop last season for the Os and clearly didn’t want to be there based on his comments. Neither side wanted to revisit that again.
“Didn’t want to part with some minor leaguers”…Baltimore acquired the very best pitcher available this past off-season in Corbin Burnes and then acquired another serviceable option in Eflin at the deadline. Ask The Astros or Dodgers how hard it is to replace multiple starters on the fly. With your Monday morning quarterback, hindsight “ability” I cannot for the life of me figure out how some team hasn’t already snatched you up to run their baseball operations. Everyone’s a genius after the fact, in hindsight right?
Ummm, the Dodgers are 1-6 in the last two postseasons…
At this point Semien and Bassit would have left as free agents. Tatis is a different story but also doesn’t mean they would have gotten the same production out of him
Joe I don’t think Flaherty or the O’s were interested in the reunion. He moped around and threw the ball terrible here. He’s been good and I’m sure he’s happy to be back in California.
Holliday isn’t really unproven anymore. Already the youngest AL player ever to hit 3 home runs in three straight games. If you’ve watched him play over the past week it’s pretty obvious why the O’s weren’t willing to part with him.
Incredibly difficult to win a championship. So many things have to go just right, and this is coming from a Brewers fan! Lol
TINSTAAP.
Especially one 190 innings past prospect eligibility.
There’s only one P there, friend.
come’on! you gotta be kidding.
Is it just me or did Brandon Hyde make some questionable moves tonight. Pitching and pinch hitting decisions ?
I’ve always thought he was a pretty poor manager. For a while it was covered up by the dreadful rosters he was in charge of but now that they’re competing I don’t think he’s the one who will be able to take them to the next level.
If only we had John Schneider!
Don’t get me wrong my opinion of him is even lower…
It’s not just you. Pinch hitting Mayo for Cowser with the bases loaded should have Hyde headed for an MRI. Slater for Holliday was just as bad, really.
I don’t know if Hyde really has the authority to make that call. That might come from the FO.
I liked the Eflin move. Should definitely be taking the bump all season.
Rogers? Man, I dunno. Has yet to pitch a full season. And I thought that was why contending teams shied away from pursuing guys like Tuark, Crochet and the A’s Miller. The likelyhood of them still being around by mid September is sketchy thus too risky of an investment.
There is something going on there. Those were awful moves. No to mention getting cute with the lefty/lefty match up. Mullins should have been first up to PH and should have been for Urias.
It was a brief but fine career.
More seriously, hopefully nothing major.
Don’t want the Yankees battling a diminished O’s.
Maybe they will be fighting a non-diminished Boston instead.
Bring it.
We’ve been diminished all season. The Os are a much stronger team on paper than the Yankees. There’s no comparison. But they’re down 4 of their top 5 SPs now plus the best closer in baseball, their best setup man and all star third baseman. It’s over
Never like to see any players injured, even though I know it’s part of the game.
Don’t think he was available. Tigers were willing to listen but they weren’t serious about moving him. The Dodgers would have preferred him to Flaherty.
Dodgers didn’t have a starting SS to offer.
Lol these people who think Baltimore should have traded Holliday and Basallo for Skubal are such idiots
Nonsense
@Teacher,
Enjoy Losing early in Oct., again!
After Burnes you have NO SP, not enough SP depth, now that Grayson is hurt.
Yous guys Hoarding lots of top Hitters, hitting Prospects, great for Norfolk, bad for Balt SP depth.
Elias and Hyde can NOT win a title, not with their awful decisions.
See you on the Golf Course come October!
I hate to tell you but Skubal doesn’t equal World Series. The bullpen needs to hold the lead once they exit and I don’t have much confidence in this one.
D’backs had a terrible rotation and bullpen but ended up in the WS last year. Could very well shake out that way for the O’s.
clearly
If you’ve watched Holliday hit the past week you’d see why they weren’t willing to trade him. Just like that he’s the youngest player in AL history to hit 3 home runs in 3 straight games. Too much talent there to trade. But I do agree with those that say the O’s did not do enough at the beginning of the season to get more pitching — though it was really in the bullpen where they needed more, not as much so the rotation.
Do you think the GM wishes he’d swing a little harder at the trade deadline – Rogers was underwhelming despite the generous cost. Flaherty would have been better, Snell even better than that. If it was a 4/5 guy they could have saved a lot and got Blackburn. This could come back to haunt them. Even Norby straight up for Fedde would have been better.
Flaherty wasn’t going to happen. He left a bad taste in their mouths after acquiring him at last years deadline and he crapped out. The Orioles could have acquired Skubal without giving up Hollday. Would have had to have been Basallo/Mayo +++ though.
No, the Tigers require a SS.
First part correct.
I don’t understand so many fans of contending teams saying their team should’ve gotten X player that wasn’t dealt. If a player wasn’t traded, that means every other GM also wasn’t willing to meet X player’s team trade demands.
Just a silly thing to say about something no one outside of a front office could have the slightest idea on
Sometimes, not every team has what Detroit demanded for their Ace. What teams have a highly rated SS prospect that could start in the majors, today, and need a stud Starter?
Minnesota says hi!
And that’s about it.
San Diego waves hi, too.
If a player wasn’t traded, that means every other GM also wasn’t
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My first rules of trades is that, if a player wasn’t traded, there is no reason to conjecture about whether or not a team should’ve traded for him.
Tommy John surgery is coming, it’s became a right of passage for MLB starters.
So what will happen now is said pitcher will take next year off, then be on an innings restriction the year after that, have another year of battling a new injury, and in his wall year he will have a high quality season, enter free agency, get paid, get “hurt” again.
It’s a lat issue, not an elbow
The lat bone isn’t connected to the elbow bone.
The elbow is a joint, not a bone.
Sarcasm is spelled with a S.
No, sarcasm is spelled with two s’s.
You read exceptionally well.
The fact that no one went out and got Crochet or Skubal suggests they weren’t realistically available. Flaherty was never coming back to Baltimore – they were a year early on him and he wasn’t super popular in the clubhouse.
Their pitching as a whole is on thin ice, but none of that will matter if they keep regressing defensively or stabilize the lineup. I can’t help to think all the position and batting order shuffling isn’t allowing some guys to find a groove.
As I’m reading your post Mayo is booting balls left n right in Toronto. Nailed it. Thanks.
Wait they’re burying the lede: the pitching coach is Mister French? A family affair indeed
The butler dude was great in that.
Buffy and Jodie
TJ seldom is required for lat injuries.
Prospect hugging Orioles had a great chance to win it all and they get Zac Elfin….. and that’s it.
Why?? there are only 8 position players and you will have to trade some of your gold coins, eventually.
That was not all they got. They actually pretty much obliterated the Norfolk lineup, between trades and call-ups.
Exactly. And all they got was Eflin and more Philly trash
They blew it. Hope it’s not another 1st round exit
Jealousy all over this nonsensical comment
To be fair Zac Efron can carry a tune and has surprising comedic chops but I see your point
You guys are all clueless. That’s why you’re not GMs. They have a great core right now for the next 3-5 years. Why would you tear that apart for one season, especially given all the injuries they already had before the season and the trade deadline? Please stay on your couch.
That’s not really the point. Neither Skubal or Crochet were rentals. Giving up someone like Mayo for them isn’t tearing up your future for one season. Now none of us know what the asking price for either were but to just say acquiring them would be dumb and ruin your future isn’t very true.
Acquiring Garret Crochet does less than Zach Eflin for 2024. You’re paying an exorbitant price for a guy who is pitching 4 innings or less at this point.
Skubal would’ve cost Holliday and more because the Tigers obviously weren’t shopping him.
Why would you tear that apart for one season
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To parrot JD a little, they:
1-Wouldn’t be tearing it apart, and
2-It wouldn’t be for one season.
Pending that your minor league system has future prospects other teams want badly. Once you deal all your top chips you can never get them back. Dylan Beavers is a Top 5 or 6 prospect who will not garner attention because of his hitting performance as of now. Fabian, Tavera, both also not hitting well either and both are in the Top 10. Orioles are not trading any pitcher at the moment. They had to hold some pieces back.
Looks like Grayson Rodriguez’s right lat is trying to join the Orioles’ injured list reunion party. At this rate, they might need to start drafting pitchers from the local beer league!
Elias didn’t pull the trigger on a frontline starter or An impact reliever. This will be their undoing. You’d think that front office would have a winning mentality at this point, especially with new owner. But they still have losers mentality of looking for scraps.
Controlable* arms. Not scraps. Dumb.
Controllable trash
Plenty of “trash” has gone on to be quite good for Baltimore. Cano, Coulombe, Perez, Webb…
There was like ONE frontline SP that was moved at the deadline- Flaherty.
The next best guys that were moved were more of the #2/#3 type SP, and Eflin was arguably the best of that group. Certainly one of the 3-5 best SPs that were traded this year anyway.
And and and and – prior to this year, Flaherty had not been a frontline starter since 2019 and did not fare well with the O’s last year, and anyone ignoring that is off their rocker. I’d way rather chance Trever Rogers than flip yet more prospects for a guy whose clubhouse fit was clearly poor in Baltimore.
The O’s could have a rotation of 5 Cy Young candidates and it wouldn’t be enough to overcome Brandon Hyde’s foolish managing.
LOL
(Not Houston) Astro: Ruh-Roh!
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This would be the end of our World Series run. Such bad luck with injuries this year.
Tough to imagine a WS run w/ this club this year. Burnes will need to be electric every single time. & then you have to hope and pray the bullpen finishes it. I think G-Rod, Eflin, Burnes could potentially get us where we wanna go but we obviously need to get hot at the right time & the pen has to surprise me.
Unless we miraculously get ourselves 2021 Trevor Rogers….
Since Skubal and Crochet didn’t move, we don’t know what was being asked for…its not like the Dodgers picked up one of them for a AAAA player and a bucket of balls. Surely the White Sox asked too much for Crochet just like they did for Cease before.
Man, lots of bad luck with the Orioles on injuries this year – last year they were very healthy.
As a Braves fan… Welcome…there are snacks and refreshments by the door. We will help each other through this challenging time.
Isnt this the same or similar thing Merrill Kelly is on the IL for?
Well no world series this year… there is always 2025
Silly post is silly.
Not a single GM in baseball traded for Skubal, or was even reported to be *anywhere* close to acquiring him.
Because Scott Harris wasn’t actually going to trade him unless it was for a “LMAO, I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY’RE ACTUALLY GOING TO DO THIS” type of return.
Next.
Orioles are this t.o.a.s.t. and have significant questions about their staff long term
Skubal would look pretty good right now in the Os rotation
Thank you all for the reminder of why I need to stay off the boards after bad things happen. People just lose their minds. Even if the Orioles do end up coming up short of their dreams, I think they and the rest of us will be okay. But what if they can shake off the obstacles and overcome with a World Series win? Even sweeter.
As a lifelong Orioles fan since Memorial Stadium, every day of relevancy is a gift.
Go O’s!
Huge blow to the O’s rotation. Hope he makes it back after the minimum.