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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · Apr 11

Did the Orioles curse themselves by putting a goat patch on their jersey? Is the Mariners Nintendo patch the worst thing to ever happen to a jersey? Should the Dodgers sponsoring their own patch be illegal? Find out on the new Updated Jersey Patch Rankings

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Updated Jersey Patch Rankings

I understand why sponsorships and ads are necessary. I don’t mind there being an ad for MasterCard on the back of the pitching mound and it doesn’t bother me when a stadium gets renamed after an in…

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Would have been a cool move, maybe gets the O’s in the playoffs in ‘22

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Gotta get somebody

The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve only seen a little bit of that movie standing behind the couch while my wife watching it so if she actually likes sacramento that’s a misread

The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 9h

Call Luis Severino Ladybird the way he hates Sacramento

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 9h

Other interesting stats that didn’t make the piece: Mitch Keller what’s going on here?

The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 9h

More on some of the pitchers the Orioles should be trying to trade for this offseason

Pre All Star break Gore pitched 110 innings with a 3.02 ERA, 2.96 FIP and a 30.5% K rate.
Post All Star break he pitched just 49 innings with a 6.75 ERA, a 5.49 FIP and a 20.7% K rate.
There could be a lot of reasons for this. A nagging injury, general fatigue or even just natural regression. I think there's an element of a guy who was stuck pitching for one of the worst teams in the league
and they throttle down his usage and he just performs worse.
What I would compare it to was Garrett Crochet's season last year.
Crochet before the 2024 All Star Break:
107 innings, 3.02 ERA and 2.37 FIP
Crochet post 2024 All Star Break: 38

You look at his home/away stats and it doesn't paint the prettiest picture.
Home: ERA: 2.70 | 3.69 FIP | 24.7 K% | .192
OPP AVG | WHIP 0.97 |
Away: ERA: 4.71 | 4.11 FIP | 18.4 K% |.302
OPP AVG | WHIP 1.46 |
So from those numbers it does look like
Castillo is a T-Mobile Merchant but lots of guys have pretty drastic home and away splits even if they're home ballpark doesn't have a broken batters eye. In fact if you look at Castillo's last full season in Cincinnati (a hitters ballpark) here's what that looks like.
Home: ERA: 3.18 | 3.34 FIP | 26.2 K% | .249
OPP AVG | WHIP 1.34 |
Away: ERA: 4.87 | 3.96 FIP | 21.3 K% | .261
OPP AVG | WHIP 1.39 |

Once he didn't get traded it seemed like baseball media mostly lost interest in his season but that's right when he really got going.
In his 10 starts post deadline here's how many innings he pitched in each start.
7,5,6,7,7,7,6,7,6.2,7
That's the Sandy Alcantara that everyone was excited to get back. Not all the statlines are pretty and there wasn't a single shutout performance but he got deep into all his starts and mostly held his opponents to 1 or 2 runs.

Ober had one IL stint this year. He missed about a month with a left hip
impingement. Hip impingement seems like an injury that kind of gradually sets in and might bug you for several weeks before it gets bad enough that the player has to miss time. If you look at his game logs he has a 3.48 ERA and a 3.77 FIP which is pretty in line with who he's been for his career and then in 5 consecutive
starts before hitting the IL he gave up 5,7,4,7 and 7 runs and that cooked his season stats.
So when it comes to Ober I'm going to basically throw this season out as a hip injury riddled mess that doesn't reflect on his actual ability.

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 10h

Could work with

My hope was in vain

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 10h

This is almost a haiku

The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 10h

Bold moves is kind what this team has been lacking so I wouldn’t mind seeing one. The return has to be really worth it though.

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah it wouldn’t be at the top of my offseason to do list but the need for pitching is significant enough if the opportunity presents itself they need to consider it

If they do trade Holliday I would hope the return would reflect that he still has a lot of potential

The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 11h

He responded with a picture of my apartment complex and said “write about the 2023 trade deadline one more time and see what happens”

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 12h

I just DM’d Mike Elias a screenshot of this thread so we’ll see what happens

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 13h

Haha I hope you’re right because I’m sure he’ll be back next year

The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 13h

Would you give up Mayo for Lodolo? Would the Reds go for that?

The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah that would probably tip the scales towards not making Lodolo the “all in move” guy

Although I will say his injuries are at least not to his elbow/forearm/shoulder area

It’s been a lot of finger blisters and calf strains and odd stuff

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah I’m not itching to move Holliday but I’d have to think about it

I don’t think it would be crazy to sign a veteran third baseman move Westburg to second and flip Holliday for a pitcher with multiple years of control

Not saying they should do that but it would be worth having a conversation

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah there’s more nuance than what my post suggests and there have been Povich outings where he’s looked good but overall I’m pretty underwhelmed

I love the idea of a group of guys with high ceilings and low floors and rolling the dice and seeing what comes up so I’m excited about the new group

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 14h

I was trying to figure out a Lodolo trade and I couldn’t think of something the Reds would want that the Orioles would be willing to give up.

They’d probably want Westburg which for me is a hard no

We’d probably want them to take prospects and I don’t think that moves the needle for them

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 14h

I would hope so because those guys STINK lol

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t think losing in the ALDS is very deep in the playoffs

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lol if they were my division rivals I wouldn’t be stressing about it either

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 16h

Getting teams to trade you good pitching in the offseason is tricky but here are 22 starting pitchers that could be available tiered by how aggressively the Orioles should pursue them

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Ranking the Orioles Starting Pitching Trade Targets

Of the two main ways that a team can improve their rotation trades are the most fun. With free agency you are limited to whoever happens to reach free agency in a given year but with trades technic…

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The Dishwasher (a baseball blog) @thedishwasher.bsky.social · 17h

That just makes me even sicker