The Dishwasher (a baseball blog)

If I had to respect 1 arm in the Orioles pen it would be Rico

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your baltimore orioles

Im not sure that plan was worse than “players teams around the league don’t want on their 40 man”

I think they just don’t want to rush Nunez he’s only got 15 triple-A innings

I’m not surprised he didn’t make the OD roster but I’m a little surprised he was optioned this early, I would have like to have had him face as many major leaguers as possible

Either way I think he’ll be up soon

I hope so

Yeah I’m being a tad dramatic here, I like Wells in a bullpen role and I’m hopeful about Garcia and Wolfram so there’s something there but they’re really pushing this building the whole bullpen out of castoffs strategy to the limit

The Orioles bullpen🔥🔥🔥

1. 7.20 ERA post trade deadline
2. Returning from TJ
3. DFA’d 3 times last year
4. Ugly
5. Geriatric
6. 5.12 ERA last year
7. DFA’d by the Twins and Mariners this year
8. DFA’d by the Brewers last year

Trying to make the playoffs with a bottom 5 bullpen in baseball 🤮🤮🤮

This doesn’t include the effectively wild Orioles season preview podcast

It’s dumb that I even listen to some of these preview pods because I’m paying such close attention to the team I don’t learn a thing but I’m a moth to a flame

The people want to know

Always good to remember that when peoples say “reports” they often mean “a tweet I saw”

Listening to various Orioles season preview podcasts and that fake MASNSteve account got so many people with the Mike Elias expects to get 180 innings out of Cade Povich tweet lmao

He should be an Oriole for life. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to quantify player value and project contracts and none of it matters here. They drafted him and developed him and he’s elite and he will be one of the greats if he stays healthy. Gotta get it done.

ABS to half the Orioles lineup

Pretty good I hear

They got Whataburger?

Not shedding lol

Zach Eflin back in his 2023 form for 10 million dollars

Yeah firing him after the collapse to end the 24 season would have felt much more justified than scapegoating him for 2025

I don’t think we know how much standing up took place behind the scenes

At the end of the day the team underperformed because they were set up to fail by the front office and Hyde took the fall

I’m shedding any tears for him but that’s what happened

I don’t think Elias had more of a say in the lineup than what’s normal for a GM, he let Manso set very different lineups from Hyde and it sounds like Alby isn’t going to be as platoon heavy as Hyde was

Hyde was just like that

He didn’t get any credit from me tell you that much

Like what was he supposed to do to stop Charlie Morton and Kyle Gibson from vomiting all over themselves for the entire month of April

I was not a big Brandon Hyde fan the last couple seasons but he did get completely screwed by the front office sending him into the season with high expectations and one of the worst rotations in the league

Cano: back

If I was an opposing pitcher I simply wouldn’t throw my 92 mph fastball right down the middle vs Vance Honeycutt

Boomsauce

Also comparing any league to the NFL is a bad idea

They play a 17 games season

Baseball would be a lot more random if they only played 17 games it’s never going to be the same!