I don't think your getting what we're saying. Lynn is a good number 3. He's a 4 in the al east at best. Hardy also dropped 20 bombs while not in the al east so that doesn't really mean anything
I understand what you're saying. I agree that his numbers wouldn't be as good with a DH and pitching a ton of games in Yankee Stadium, Camden, Toronto, and Fenway. I also agree that the A.L. East is the toughest division in baseball. You're right that Lynn would be a number four in some A.L. East rotations. I'm saying you're naive if you truly think Lynn would be a number 4 in Baltimore's rotation.
The Orioles didn't miss the playoffs with one of the best offenses and defenses in MLB. The pitching flat out sucked.
I'm not saying that Lynn is equal to Hardy if isolated to on field contributions. You have to factor in that Hardy is a free agent after this year and Lynn is relatively price controlled through 2018.
If the O's pen didn't blow so many leads, perhaps. The rotation was nothing special but Tillman emerged as a legit MLB starter to contend with. Chen is a gamer and his injury left the O's in the lurch for 2 months.
They have the worst rotation in the AL East, arguably (if not Toronto) but the reason they regressed from 93 wins to 85 wins was Jim Johnson, period. He was blowing saves from May right til September.
Nah, I can make it to Tampa sometimes in about 75 minutes, depending on where I am going (I live about 2 minutes from the park).will be playing hockey in Brandon on Thursday nights, never been there so hope the rink is easy to get to. Hope you had fun down here, the ballpark is nice, the clubhouse/training room/facilities are nice inside. Major upgrade from what the Rangers had when they were here.
I went down to Port Charlotte for the Twins game yesterday afternoon. Even though I have been a partial season ticket holder for years, this is the first Spring Training game I have seen them play at their home ball park. For some reason I thought Port Charlotte was much further away from Tampa than it actually was. Starters looked good, Cobb looked great, Balfour looked good, nothing out of the prospects really jumped out. A dude for MN hit an absolute bomb off of some lefty for the Rays I had never even heard of. Nice park, I would recommend trying to make it down there if you have the spare time.
The way Moore left the game didn't look good.