Breaking: Alex Cobb TRADED to Angels for Jahmai Jones

[Warfarin]

21 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Alex Cobb PITCHED very well last night.

He sure did.  In the end, I am hopeful that Minasian is pretty good at finding value and helping players perform better than they previously did.  The great FOs of baseball are rather good at finding players who have talent but haven't been "optimized," so to speak, and help them improve upon their performances.

Minasian and Tamin both have strong connections to Friedman, who is widely considered the best executive in baseball, and likely has strong systems in place for player development/optimization, "game planning," etc.  Bundy specifically referenced that he felt we had a really solid plan in place in terms of how to attack certain White Sox hitters.  

I'm cautiously optimistic we'll see that "game planning" permeate to all aspects of our team.  Talent wins in the end, but if you have a smartly run team, you can get advantages in areas like this.  It's possible that quite a few players will see significant bumps in their performances as a result.  We'll see how it pans out.

[greginpsca]

5 hours ago, Warfarin said:

 

Not a bad debut!  Look at all those swings and misses generated:

 

 

I listened to the first 3 innings, and in those innings he had 3 ground ball outs  in addition to the K's. Good sign. He did exactly what  i hoped he would do. Get thru 5-6 innings and keep the game close. 

[Pancake Bear]

Cobb got 18 outs. From the game summary: 7 of those were K's. 8 were groundouts (1 was a GIDP, so technically 9 outs, but 8 ground balls generated). 1 line out to 2B, and 1 infield pop up. 

Additionally, of the eight hits he gave up, four were ground balls, one was a fly ball (home run), and the other three were line drives. 

The K and whiff rate were solid (only one BB, which is also excellent - 8/1 k/bb ratio), but dude keeps the ball on the ground impressively well.

[Warfarin]

3 minutes ago, Pancake Bear said:

Cobb got 18 outs. From the game summary: 7 of those were K's. 8 were groundouts (1 was a GIDP, so technically 9 outs, but 8 ground balls generated). 1 line out to 2B, and 1 infield pop up. 

Additionally, of the eight hits he gave up, four were ground balls, one was a fly ball (home run), and the other three were line drives. 

The K and whiff rate were solid (only one BB, which is also excellent - 8/1 k/bb ratio), but dude keeps the ball on the ground impressively well.

Notably too, in his last inning of work, there were runners on 2nd and 3rd, no one out, and he worked his way out of it without surrendering another run.

Very solid work.  Could be our second SP “find” from Baltimore in as many seasons.

[Lou]

On 2/1/2021 at 7:32 AM, Lou said:

Yes!

 

[Warfarin]

Some more analysis:

 

[mmc]

Wish we could've added to get Anthony Santander as well.

[m0nkey]

There was 33 pages discussing this trade?

[Lou]

15 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

There was 33 pages discussing this trade?

Black Minor Leaguers Matter 

[stanick88]

Cobb kind of has a Weaver-esque vibe to him.  

[Warfarin]

1 hour ago, m0nkey said:

There was 33 pages discussing this trade?

There's 20 pages on the Buttrey thread, around like 50% of which is discussing badges in a workplace setting, so 33 pages on this doesn't seem terribly unreasonable, lol.

[Warfarin]

Well, only 2 games so far, but Cobb has been our best pitcher.  He generated 19 swing and misses last night - not bad!

[ten ocho recon scout]

4 hours ago, Warfarin said:

Well, only 2 games so far, but Cobb has been our best pitcher.  He generated 19 swing and misses last night - not bad!

Imagine if AJ never commented on him. He was Musgrovian up until AJ hit the submit button

[Taylor]

Alex Cobb CONTINUED to pitch well in his second start.

[Blarg]

Baltimore writer's assessment of the Cobb for Jones trade.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-jahmai-jones-breakdown-20210204-c5pza4eoojdavacjlupivnjnb4-story.html

[mmc]

 

[m0nkey]

We won the trade!

[Taylor]

I totally forgot this was a midseason trade.

[mmc]

I totally forgot baseball games are played in February

[Taylor]

2 minutes ago, mmc said:

I totally forgot baseball games are played in February

Oops, I saw the tweet from June and for some reason thought the trade happened in June.

Carry on.

[LooneyPlatoons]

Obviously we should pick up Jam Jones and trade him again for Cobb.

[cals]

17 minutes ago, LooneyPlatoons said:

Obviously we should pick up Jam Jones and trade him again for Cobb.

This isn’t a terrible idea.

[Docwaukee]

34 minutes ago, cals said:

This isn’t a terrible idea.

trade him?  he's an outfielder who got converted to the infield but still plays the outfield.  And he can't hit!  Maddon just found a bag of weed in his sock drawer.  

[cals]

Just now, Dochalo said:

trade him?  he's an outfielder who got converted to the infield but still plays the outfield.  And he can't hit!  Maddon just found a bag of weed in his sock drawer.  

You don’t talk like any doctor I know.

[Docwaukee]

3 minutes ago, cals said:

You don’t talk like any doctor I know.

oh go on!