Game Thread Baltimore Orioles vs New York Yankees Wednesday June 19th 7:05pm

Gleyber doesn’t make a play and bad 0-2 pitch by Cole and it’s 1-0 O’s.

 

And the worst number 6 hitter in baseball, DJ moved up from 9th to 6th because of his sparkling .176 ave. Nice lineup Boone u moron!

 

Our BP sux....the law of averages has caught up with them.

 

Been saying this for a while now...plain and simple, the O's have more real players than the Yanx.

 

Good job, Marinaccio. (rolls eyes)

 

Stanton is trash...can't hit, can't run, can't field, can't throw,...and is grossly over-paid.

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   2024 Salary: $32 million
   
   Contract for 2025 and Beyond: 3 years, $86 million (plus a $25 million club option with a $10 million buyout for 2028) [Miami paying $10 million in each of 2026, 2027 and 2028]
   
   2023 Stats: .191/.275/.420, 24 HR, 60 RBI
   
   When Giancarlo Stanton signed his 13-year, $325 million contract during the 2014-15 offseason, he had just turned 25 and already had 154 home runs with a career OPS of .903 in five seasons.
   
   For a while, he even out-performed that, posting a .908 OPS with 151 more home runs from 2015-18, including earning NL MVP honors in 2017.
   
   Joining the 500 home run club seemed like a foregone conclusion, and 600 career dingers was at least on the table, if not the most likely outcome.
   
   But injuries have left Stanton a shell of his former self and have rapidly turned this into one of the worst contracts in baseball.
   
   When Stanton does get a hold of one, it still travels an absurd distance. On a 162-game basis, he averaged 42 home runs and 106 RBI over the past two seasons.
   
   However, Stanton has missed at least 32 percent of Yankees games in four of the past five seasons. He posted a career-worst (by nearly 60 points) OPS of .759 in 2022 before dropping another 64 points last season, resulting in a combined total of negative-0.1 bWAR during that time.
   
   Among the 212 players with at least 400 plate appearances last season, Stanton's .191 batting average was tied with Martín Maldonado for dead last, and his .275 on-base percentage was eighth-worst.
   
   At least Maldonado provides value on defense. Stanton is almost unplayable in the field at this point, with New York coincidentally losing all 14 games in which he logged a complete game in the outfield in 2023.
   
   At least Stanton plays more often than not, though, and puts a ball into orbit about once per week. That keeps him ahead of a few severely sunk costs.
   

 

How fucking bad does Trent Grisham have to be to have Jamai Jones pinch hit for him ?

 

How much longer can our idiot manager give DJ Donaldson the every day job. He kills rally after rally and has stunk for a couple of years now. Out in Cabrera already for christs sake.

 

Would be nice to rally in the last inning or 2 and pull out a big one but I’m not holding my. Breath!

 

Thanks Trevino. Another guy that needs to go

 

Thanks jonquel. Great awareness! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH

 

If we can hold Baltimore in the 9th what do you guys think of the yanks getting a run or 2 in the bottom with the top of the order up?

 

Never fails, does it?

 

And now he brings in another rookie who nobody ever heard of in the 9th inning of a 1 run game. Boone is trying to give these games away.

 

Bases loaded now. Hard to watch this

 

And an unbelievable great miraculous catch by Verdugo for the first miracle. Now can we get a run or 2 to win this one now?