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#1 NewMarketSean

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Posted 28 March 2017 - 02:51 PM

Good numbers in 5 starts last year, terrible in 2015, and apparently terrible this spring. Sounds like he'll fit right in with Wright and Wilson.

 

http://www.rotoworld...7716/alec-asher

 

Orioles acquired RHP Alex Asher from the Phillies for cash considerations or a player to be named later.

Asher had a poor spring and wasn't going to make the Phillies' Opening Day roster. Despite his Grapefruit League struggles, Asher fared well in a small sample size in the big leagues last season, contributing a 2.28 ERA over five starts for Philadelphia. He'll start out in Triple-A but should make a few cameos in Baltimore later in the year. Mar 28 - 3:40 PM

 


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#2 Mackus

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Posted 28 March 2017 - 03:01 PM

Add another bingo ball to the spot starter hopper.
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Posted 28 March 2017 - 03:16 PM

I'm trying to figure out what this guy brings that Ynoa, Lee, and Wilson don't?



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Posted 28 March 2017 - 04:18 PM

Assuming the PTBNL is nothing...its not a matter of bringing in something different... it's just bringing in another possibility.



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Posted 28 March 2017 - 04:20 PM

I'm trying to figure out what this guy brings that Ynoa, Lee, and Wilson don't?

 

Improved odds of having one of the guys in that bucket come through and pitch like he's actually somebody....


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Posted 28 March 2017 - 05:04 PM

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Posted 28 March 2017 - 05:24 PM

I'm trying to figure out what this guy brings that Ynoa, Lee, and Wilson don't?

 

Some people believe you need 11 starters.



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Posted 28 March 2017 - 06:46 PM

Just saw he was suspended for steroids last year. So there's that.
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Posted 28 March 2017 - 06:52 PM

Hasn't ever thrown many innings.  Still 25 all of this season.

To be another guy that could give you spot starts, or maybe be a bullpen piece...  it's a fine move.

Most likely outcome is he's nothing... not even a reliable bullpen arm, but so what?


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Posted 28 March 2017 - 07:05 PM

Hasn't come out of BP since A ball. Seems like a true SP. It'll be interesting how they handle him if he does get called up.
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Posted 28 March 2017 - 07:12 PM

Makes it more likely that someone gets bumped from Norfolk down to Bowie's rotation.    Assuming Nuno makes the team, you have one of the following in Baltimore with the rest in the minors

 

1. Wilson

2. Wright

3. Aquino

4. Lee

5. Ynoa

6. Gunkel

7. Asher

 

In addition someone from the O's said that Jason Garcia wasn't returning to Bowie but was being kept as a starter.   So that's 8.


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Posted 28 March 2017 - 08:52 PM

With this acquisition can we now officially start printing those World Series tickets?
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Posted 28 March 2017 - 10:22 PM

520.6 IP in the minors.  K rate is 8, walk rate 2.3 and has only given up 473 hits.  His HR rate is over 1.  That's high.

 

http://crashburnalle...ball-deception/

 

http://www.lonestarb...scouting-report

 

What the hell?  Why not take a shot.  May be nothing more than Tyler Wilson but if you don't give up anything to get him, why not take a look at him?


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Posted 28 March 2017 - 10:37 PM

Rob has it right. Why the hell not? Some of you consistently want to circle jerk some "durrr, I dunno this fringe guy, we suck" story, and it's infuriating to me.


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#15 Icterus galbula

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Posted 28 March 2017 - 10:42 PM

Seriously. Somebody tell me this is a bad move in the vacuum.

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Posted 28 March 2017 - 10:56 PM

DDDD! He doesn't sign vintage Roger Clemens at bargain rates! Never mind any logistics or constraints of his ownership; this guy is clown town!


Here's where I say "no offense" and I get off with a free pass.
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Posted 28 March 2017 - 11:11 PM

It's right up there with the inevitable 'print the playoff tickets' post. Depth moves are important and part of the reason they contend while beating everyone's projections.
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Posted 29 March 2017 - 09:28 AM

Let me know when McNulty and Icterus come up for air from under DDDD's sheets 


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Posted 29 March 2017 - 09:35 AM

Pedro cracks me up. Hence the "likes". But I'm in full agreement with IG and McNulty. Moves like this are potentially important. Those frings acquisitions have been the difference in being a playoff team or not of late. AM was the opposite... "what's the point" type of mindset with these types. Of course, we weren't competing, but I enjoy DD's no stone unturned approach, even if there is an element of DDDD there. 


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Posted 29 March 2017 - 09:38 AM

Confirmed: DD's sheets are from the dumpster.

 

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