G-Snarls

Horrendous...

Maddening

He'd be an amazing get but the Orioles never trade players at the right time. They always wait to the last minute and get little in return.

An Underrated Reliever Who Could Find Himself On The Trade Market By Anthony Franco | June 10, 2021 at 10:37pm CDT Still amidst a multi-year rebuild, the Orioles are one of a handful of teams around the league certain to trade players off the big league roster in advance of the July 30 deadline. Much of the discussion about the club in the coming weeks figures to revolve around the potential availability of staff ace John Means and first baseman Trey Mancini, with good reason. But there’s a lower-profile Oriole whose excellent performance should draw plenty of attention from contenders: lefty reliever Paul Fry. A former 17th-round pick of the Mariners, Fry was traded to Baltimore for international signing bonus space back in 2017. He made his MLB debut the following year. While Fry began as a rather nondescript middle reliever, he’s quietly been lights-out for the past two seasons. Since the start of 2020, Fry has pitched to a 2.22 ERA that ranks twelfth among big league relievers (minimum 40 innings). Relievers can sometimes fluke their way into strong ERA’s given their generally small sample workloads, but that doesn’t appear to be the case with Fry. He’s among the top 25 bullpen arms in strikeout rate (33%), strikeout/walk rate differential (22.9 percentage points), SIERA (2.98) and ground ball rate (55.3%) over the last two years. Quite simply, he’s done almost everything teams want from a pitcher. He’s shown the ability to both miss bats and keep the ball on the ground, so it’s no surprise he continues to post scoreless innings. His 10.1% walk rate, while slightly worse than league average, is far from disastrous. Fry was very good in 2020, and he’s seemingly taken his game to another level this season. Fry’s punching out hitters at a career-best 36.7% rate this year, helping him pitch to a 1.99 ERA across 22 2/3 frames. He’s averaging a career-high 93.5 MPH on his four-seam fastball, which is missing bats at an elite level. And Fry’s been equally dominant against hitters from both sides of the plate, holding left-handed and right-handed batters alike to a sub-.500 OPS. That level of on-field dominance is interesting enough, but Fry’s contractual status makes him all the more appealing a trade target. He’s making just more than the league minimum salary this season and comes with three additional years of team control via arbitration. Even the lowest-payroll contenders would have no issue adding Fry to the books; the same is true of big-market teams seemingly set on staying underneath the luxury tax threshold (i.e. Astros, Red Sox and Yankees).

Vlad hit our only HR. That ball would have been out in most football stadiums/airports.

Lost a game in which they had 16 hits I have no words

Before this game, Jays starters had a better collective ERA than the Red Sox starters Bullpen is the problem

Before this game, Jays starters had a better collective ERA than the Red Sox starters Bullpen is the problem

Tyler Chatwood stresses me out more than pretty much anything in my life right now

Win win win

Just what I was thinking...

Finally read/heard more about Spider Tack Didn't realize it was designed for weightlifting competitors to help them keep a grip on 600 lb Atlas stones during competitions: Currently sold out on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Spider-Tack-Competition-Grade-9oz/dp/B004309NLK [insert joke about Gerrit Cole buying it all here]

Indeed A healthy Yates and Merryweather and the bullpen sure looks different

Only the NFL could have a work stoppage and not lose fans I'd bet that if the NFL missed a full season that when it came back, the first month the TV ratings would actually go up compared to usual

I was happy they re signed Ray instead of Walker, though I would have been fine with either Walker has had the better first 1/3 season But Ray has been good too and I still think he holds up as well or better going forward In the case of Roark it was clear he had to go. Im glad they ate it and didn't wait any longer to dump him

I've never gone back to watching hockey since their last lockout /etc

Could we PLEASE put up a zero here

Manny also got busted TWICE for PED's of course... And yeah, offensive numbers were so much better then compared to now it's CRAZY

Good move Charlie

Omfg No no no

Two on for Vlad? Muah ah ah ah ah

Agreed He's cruising Give him another go at it unless they score 5 runs here

Wow Ray is a beast right now Love it

Not likely to shut out this offense Want insurance runs

That 4 seamer is a beaut