But even if he's tubing them down the middle, tipping pitches, is a mental midget, or whatever else could possibly be wrong with him....teams aren't making hard contact off of him at all.
87.7 EV against him is the best of his career.
Yes exactly!
You could come up with whatever extraneous reason you want and maybe I'd buy it. But even in the worst case that might explain why he's closer to a true talent 4.00 ERA guy and not the 2.75-ish that his peripherals suggest.
A .516 BABIP is insane. Position players pitching don't even get close to this.
I'm sure this was discussed at length in the GDT this weekend but I was looking under the hood on what is wrong with Jeff Hoffman and I cannot figure anything out other than he is experiencing perhaps the worst luck in MLB history.
By all indicators he should be one of the top RPs in baseball. The only stat that really stands out is a .516 BABIP (and perhaps his 61.6% which is laregly a product of that BABIP). This would be the worst BABIP for any season in MLB history for any pitcher with a minimum of 25 innings pitched.
Voth will be pitching no matter what today but if the game gets out of hand my guess is that they just sacrifice him to the baseball gods by throwing him 4+ innings and then DFAing him after the game for a fresh arm.
Just one of those 162 games where injuries and usage are lining up to create a garbage pitching staff.
That's why winning last night was so clutch. If we have to we can eat today's game and then have a refreshed bullpen for tomorrow with Trey on the hill.
But who knows, we could get a legacy game out of Seabold where he goes 3+ innings of 0 run ball and the offense puts up a crooked number and we end up spanking them.
Yeah Macko is the confirmed starter.
If the plan is to get through 9 innings with Macko, Seabold, Voth, Yariel, Fluharty and Fisher then we really need to hang a crooked number on Rogers.
I can't believe someone is using Batting Average in the year 2026 but there are a shitload of guys.
George Springer hit .179 in low A as a 21 year old and .219 as a 22 year old in AA.
Ben Rice hit .197 in the Complex League and A-Ball as a 21 year old in his first year in pro ball. There's two guys I found after looking for 5 minutes.
Nimmala is currently hitting .308 as a 20 year old in AA for whatever that is worth.
But in any event, I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here anyway. Nimmala is a Top 50ish prospect, and a 50 FV. That's good but nothing special. Every team in the league has at least one of these kind of guys.
Yeah with 2 bullpen games coming up after tonight, I think Corbin is going to have to eat some innings no matter what. Even if he's getting lit up they are going to push him for 5.
Well damn, I suppose that they can always look back fondly on their Prospect Rankings Championships from 2020-2024.
It was a legendary run (which translated to 0 playoff wins) and I can't wait to see the banners hanging at their beautiful ballpark next time I visit (I won't since I was almost stabbed the last time I was in that shithole city).
Cease going down really screws things up this series. 2 bullpen games is brutal and we will have to churn and burn some scrubs like Austin Voth just to get through it.
Going to need the bats to show up, and this O’s pitching staff might be exactly who you want to see right now.
Orioles Fanboys coping with Jackson Holliday not panning out as hoped sure is a sad sight....
Top prospects fail to reach superstar status all the time. Just let it go and focus on what you do have, Gunnar Henderson, a nice ballpark, etc.