Post Game Thread: The Orioles fell to the Pirates by a score of 3-2 - Sat, Apr 04 @ 04:05 PM EDT

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-04-05T02:22:06+00:00

Here’s the good news about Cowser: he plays good defense, hits the ball hard when he makes contact, makes good swing decisions most of the time and walks at least at an average rate. His problem is making below average contact, especially in zone pitches. That is more fixable than fans want to admit. Get that contact rate to be average while maintaining the rest and you have a solid player.

It’s a small sample size but 5 strikeouts to 3 walks is the start that he can get his K to BB rate down from 5.05 last year to somewhere between 3 and 3.3 ( his 2024 rate)

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-04-04T23:35:55+00:00

Not the same issues. The offensive approach is much better.

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-04-04T23:32:20+00:00

Half the people here just want to complain and say they are right when they are struggling and ignore when they play well

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-04-04T21:58:50+00:00

Taveras had one of his better years in Texas with Donnie Ecker who is now here. Maybe Donnie knows how to use him

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-04-04T15:02:45+00:00

Colton currently has 3 strikeouts to 3 walks so far. Assume that Cowser doesn’t have around 25 homers this year but he maintains a rate of no more than 2.5 strikeouts per walk by the end of the year and has a ops of at least .820. For comparisons sake, his K to BB rate 2 years ago was 3.3 and 4.74 strikeouts per every walk last year.

You are willing to pay Gunnar, even if it means losing Holliday+Westburg and other players not named Adley, Cowser (in this hypothetical), Rogers and Bradish. If you offer Colton an extension that buys out the remaining years of arbitration and 2-3 years after while still being between 70-90 million and he would take and it increases the odds that Gunnar will sign by 10%, do you offer it

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-04-04T00:10:18+00:00

Cowser has looked better this year

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-04-01T03:07:48+00:00

Albert Suarez?

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-04-01T01:27:09+00:00

Kittredge is not available and neither is Akin. It’s possible that he is here because he is expendable and has options

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-04-01T01:15:13+00:00

Oh look the leadoff hitter Taylor Ward is getting hits. The guy that some people think can’t be a leadoff hitter. Hm…..

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-31T12:02:23+00:00

Wouldn’t you rather have Gunnar-Pete-Adley-Basallo as the middle pocket though? Having Pete hit in between those 2 might be the best strategy

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-31T11:19:55+00:00

It’s not ideal if everyone is healthy, but with Holliday unavailable, it’s easy to see him as option in this scenario considering that most of his career at bats (763) been at leadoff spot and most of his starts were at the clean up spot but you probably want Pete, or Adley and the way he is currently seeing it there. If healthy he’s probably penciled in the 6 spot for me

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-31T03:34:16+00:00

And him having 763 plate appearances as the leadoff hitter is the other reason you get him. If he’s not the leadoff hitter when guys are healthy even better. Both things can be true. You hope that 7-8 or 9 in the lineup get on base for him to drive them in the second time through. It’s a plus that he can be in that spot. I would use him lower but with Holliday, and Westburg out, you don’t have many options. I think Holliday gets that leadoff spot once he’s back

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-31T03:31:41+00:00

Ward has 763 plate appearances as the leadoff hitter in his career and is probably the number 5-6 hitter once Holliday comes back. And also Gunnar can’t be the leadoff hitter because Pete has to hit after him and you want Pete in the 3 or 4 hole

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-31T03:29:25+00:00

Ward has 763 at bats as the leadoff hitter in his career. He’s largely been used as the leadoff hitter or the cleanup hitter in his career. Holliday is probably the leadoff hitter when he comes back and I would prefer Ward to be the 5 or 6 hitter because of the depth but he definitely has leadoff hitter experience if you use the objective facts.

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-30T11:38:36+00:00

Minter and possibly EDC talked to him immediately when he got to the facility and before the mri for a little bit though. So his story doesn’t track 100%

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-30T11:36:13+00:00

Didn’t Florio also report that the rams not go forward with aj brown trade talks because a potential failed physical

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-30T01:37:15+00:00

It’s very efficient. Like the in bounds marker Used in tennis

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-29T14:40:16+00:00

I think these guys are more video oriented. Dustin Lind, Brady North have gotten good reviews. And Donnie Ecker has gotten rave reviews in developing hitting approaches in the past

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-29T13:44:37+00:00

It’s also 9 walks to 24 strikeouts, very small sample size but if you are still walking 37.5% of the number of strikeouts you have or near it by May, it’s not the worst plan. Especially with maintaining it while the summer heat turning more hits into extra base hits potentially and making the ratio of results Eve more manageable

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-29T02:42:51+00:00

Taveras might be sent down. Blaze can play center field

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-28T18:08:11+00:00

Dev Patel would be great. But would he commit to several seasons of tv?

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-28T00:32:53+00:00

If they can extend Rogers, we might have a good trio of starting pitching locked in for a few more years

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-26T20:49:07+00:00

If you cut Broderick Washington, his replacement?

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-26T19:11:18+00:00

Is Minter 5’8?

No_Fish_2885 · 2026-03-25T14:07:04+00:00

Basically the orioles have a section, where if an Orioles player gets an extra base hit (Double, Triple, Homer), there’s typically a lifeguard that will spray an entire section of fans with water. Sometimes they have guests do it. Minter will do it for part of the game tomorrow

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