Saturday Bird Droppings

by duck on May 22, 2010 8:15 AM EDT in Open Threads

Victory again smiled upon the Orioles, and recaps of the wonders may be found at MASNsports.com, baltimoresun.com, orioles.com, Washington Examiner , The Associated Press, Washington Post, and , for our friends who read Spanish, lainformacion.com.

Versatility earns Moore a call back to Baltimore - baltimoresun.com
Scott Moore owns more than one kind of infielder's glove, so he's the call-up for the Nats series. -duck

Trembley remains cautious with Wieters | orioles.com: News
Matt Wieters got the day off last night, after X-rays were negative but his knee tightened up on the plane ride back from Texas. He's expected to play today. -duck

Right leg cramps force Jones out early | orioles.com: News
Adam Jones developed cramps in his right leg Friday night and was removed from the game, but says he will be fine for Saturday. -duck

Orioles Insider: Did David Hernandez do enough Friday to keep his rotation spot?
David Hernandez was "effectively wild", as Jim Palmer put it last night, but with Jake Arrieta and Chris Tillman doing well in Norfolk, is it time to bump Hernandez to long relief? -duck

Baltimore Should Open The Market | FanGraphs Baseball
Dave Cameron tells the Orioles to start selling now before the other teams put their players out there, because "[t]hey might not be selling grade A premium beef, but there’s a reason Taco Bell does so well at 2 am – they’re the only ones open." -Stacey

Kevin Millar joins Fox as baseball analyst - MLB - SI.com
Kevin Millar will join Joe Buck for a Cardinals-Brewers game June 5. He will start out tonight as a studio analyst. Good times, I'm sure, will be had be all. -duck

Boston Excited to Welcome Kevin Millar Back to Red Sox Family - NESN.com
Kevbo returns to Beantown. -zk

Suns Brady Anderson Night Almost Here - OurSports Central
A week from Saturday, the Sideburns will be honored. First 500 fans receive a voucher for a Brady Statuette. Not a bobblehead; a statuette. -zk

Chad Moeller Thrilled To Be Back With Yankees - WSJ.com
Ex-Oriole Chad Moeller got called up from AAA on Thursday. -zk

StreetInsider.com - Southwest Airlines Begins Baltimore-Panama City Beach Service
On Monday, May 24 from noon to 1 p.m., Southwest Airlines is turning McKeldin Square (located at the corner or Pratt and Light streets) into a beach scene complete with beach bags, beach balls, the one and only Baltimore Orioles Mascot, and dozens of Southwest employees dressed ready to head to the beach! The employees will be passing out 200 beach bags to the first passersby who show up. The bags are filled with items donated by local businesses from Panama City Beach. Also, six beach bags will contain two roundtrip tickets on Southwest, plus hotel accommodations to the Panama City Beach Area! ... I clipped it because of the Bird's appearance, but one of you should go down there and win that trip. -zk

IN THE MINORS:

Norfolk won 3-2 as Robert Andino had a two-out, ninth inning single for the walk-off win, Bowie won 5-1 as Zach Britton went 6.0 IP and gave up just 1 run, Keys lost 6-1 as Rick Zagone gave up six runs in the first two innings, and the Shorebirds lost 2 games as they gave up big innings in both games, surrendering a 5-run 4th inning in Game 1 and a 7 run inning in Game 2.

Adam Loewen Stats, Bio, Photos, Highlights
I know it's just the minors, but still: our old friend Adam Loewen seems to be figuring out AA pitching. His AVG/OBP/OPS on the year is .265/.374/.827. But more impressive are his last 10 games: .351/.429/.996. Wonder if we could trade for him? -zk

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Some Nats trash talk

Headline over at Federal Baseball: Another humiliating loss to a last place team.

Now, yes the Orioles are in last place and yes they’re awful. But…do the Nats fans actually THINK the Nats are good? I haven’t hung around Federal Baseball enough to get their vibe, so I’m not sure. But the team has allowed over 20 more runs than it has scored, for crying out loud. Do they think Josh Willingham is going to OBP >400 all year? Or the the reanimated corpse of Pudge Rodriguez is going to hit like this the entire season? Or a billion other things about the Nats that I don’t know about?

I had written the following comment over there in that story but I deleted it before posting because I decided it was kind of troll-y: Don’t worry Nats fans, I’m sure by the time your team comes to Baltimore next month it will be two last place teams playing against each other so the losses won’t be as humiliating.

by Stacey on May 22, 2010 9:20 AM EDT reply actions

well they aren't bad

better than we are.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on May 22, 2010 9:29 AM EDT up reply actions

plus i have a slight feeling as though they might be interested in roy oswalt

not sure who they’d have to give up though.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on May 22, 2010 9:45 AM EDT up reply actions

No way that'll happen

Roy Oswalt has a no trade clause and he’s asking to leave the Astros. Why on earth would he agree to go to the Nationals?

And yes, they are bad. Just because they’re not as bad as the Orioles this year doesn’t mean they’re good.

by Stacey on May 22, 2010 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions

they've got quite a bit of potential tho

they need some improvement in the bullpen, but that will come.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on May 22, 2010 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions

They also need almost an entire lineup. They have 3 major league hitters.

Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck

by O'sFan21 on May 22, 2010 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions

we have..um....

damn…this is a hard question.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on May 22, 2010 7:15 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm not sure they are better than we are

Sure, their record is better, but look at who they play.

"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower

by daveh873 on May 22, 2010 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions

eh

we play our fair share of bad teams too. its really hard to compare an NL team to an AL team so i’ll give you that, but they’re definitely improving. we’ll see what happens.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on May 22, 2010 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions

I think

While we’ve had alot of players nor play up to potential, theyve had a few play over their heads. Couple that with not having to play the Yanks-Rays-Sox and with their incredible luck (giving up more runs than they score while playing above .500 ball) and i’d still take the O’s over the Nats any day.

"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower

by daveh873 on May 22, 2010 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions

i wouldnt

the o’s cant hit at all. plus, there are a handful of teams right around .500 who have scored fewer runs than their opponents. cincy has outscored opponents by just 4 runs and they are 24-18.

the only thing keeping the orioles in games right now is the pitching (more specifically the exceptional starting pitching). the nationals aren’t consistent at all, but at least they’ve been able to hit every once in a while.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on May 22, 2010 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions

THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY ARE

"I doubt he could reach [second base]...mostly cuz his fucking arm was in Aybar's nuts." – twistedlogic

by zknower on May 22, 2010 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions

and we let 'em off the hook.

well actually, we beat them, but that doesnt fit the lines.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on May 22, 2010 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions

nah - they ARE bad. They barely have any major league players on the team.

Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck

by O'sFan21 on May 22, 2010 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions

I thought we were contractually obligated to refer to "Nats fan" in the singular

I'm ready for a straight jacket. - Joe Angel, 4/17/10 (O's record: 1-11)

by Eat More Esskay on May 22, 2010 10:30 AM EDT up reply actions

Jeez, I bet Charles Krauthammer cried himself to sleep last night. Oh, the humiliation...

Federal Baseball was pretty good in its early going. I remember SC saying Check the guy out — it was paarently pretty much a one-man show, and the poor one man was infinitely more knowledgable than the average Gnats fan (if any Gnats fan can be called average). Anyway, it appears they (he?) have/has slipped a bit since then…

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on May 22, 2010 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions

Let's take 2 of 3!

I don’t know how much more of this season I can take.

Invade that ridiculous stadium! Ride the Metro home in a sea of orange!

The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST

by the fix is in on May 22, 2010 10:53 AM EDT reply actions

Did we unclip the Fangraphs article on trades?

I dunno how much I thought of it, but it was interesting for discussion purposes.

To be understood is to be a prostitute. ~ Fernando Pessoa

by James F on May 22, 2010 10:57 AM EDT reply actions

I must have missed it

Did what I could before I had to go run Saturday School at 8:30. My bad.

When you watch the Orioles every night, a beer after dinner turns into a six pack WAY too many times. Stacey

by duck on May 22, 2010 11:02 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Why you no respect my clippings?

by Stacey on May 22, 2010 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions

Verizon DSL wasn't cooperating at 8:10 this morning

Also why there’s no pic.

When you watch the Orioles every night, a beer after dinner turns into a six pack WAY too many times. Stacey

by duck on May 22, 2010 12:52 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

keep mouthing off

and you’ll get traded at the deadline.

"I doubt he could reach [second base]...mostly cuz his fucking arm was in Aybar's nuts." – twistedlogic

by zknower on May 22, 2010 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions

I think Stacey is probably the CC equivalent of a 10-5 player

I'm ready for a straight jacket. - Joe Angel, 4/17/10 (O's record: 1-11)

by Eat More Esskay on May 22, 2010 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions

not to mention

No team is going to take on my ridiculous contract.

by Stacey on May 22, 2010 2:01 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

I just added it. It's in the middle-ish.

"I doubt he could reach [second base]...mostly cuz his fucking arm was in Aybar's nuts." – twistedlogic

by zknower on May 22, 2010 11:32 AM EDT up reply actions

the moore article is funny

you keep reading it, there are some comments on koji being unavailable since wednesday because he was extremely taxed after pitching 30 pitches in the texas heat. Trembley sounds annoyed by his fragileness.

by Y Not on May 22, 2010 1:15 PM EDT reply actions

i'm annoyed by his fragileness

i can’t pitch for three days after a 30 pitch outing? get the fuck outta here koji.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on May 22, 2010 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions

Good outing by DH

But TLTL… We need bullpen help and he’s not a great starter

by GeoffreyA on May 22, 2010 1:47 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

"is it time to bump Hernandez to long relief?"

Yes, thus, Matt Albers will no longer have a spot on this team. Its been a long time coming but I know, Matt Albers gonna leave.

b dot o, but i know that i flow rack them up knock them down dominos

by WestcoastO'sFan on May 22, 2010 2:11 PM EDT reply actions

i dont think you can dump albers until its certain that koji can pitch more than once a week

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on May 22, 2010 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions

You don't move DH to the bullpen, IMO

What you want to do is trade Millwood or Guthrie and develop Hernandez into a mid-rotation starter, or build Hernandez into a mid-rotation starter and trade him.

Relievers have little value on anything but a contender. Starters are valuable to everyone.

To be understood is to be a prostitute. ~ Fernando Pessoa

by James F on May 22, 2010 2:18 PM EDT reply actions

can you really teach control though?

i totally agree with you, but i don’t really feel as though he’ll have value to anyone walking 4-5 per game and only getting through 5 innings.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on May 22, 2010 2:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Eh

Lots of pitchers develop better control the more time they spend in the majors. I think it is way too soon to give up on him.

To be understood is to be a prostitute. ~ Fernando Pessoa

by James F on May 22, 2010 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions

agreed

time will tell. its not like we really have somebody to replace him yet since i’m still not convinced that millwood is going to continue his current success.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on May 22, 2010 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions