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dak said:
It just seems so hard to believe though that he'd be hitting 96 and comfortably averaging 93. It could be a wonky radar gun. His average FB velocity for his career below:

2010: 90.9

2011: 90.9

2012: 90.3

2013: 90.4

2014: 90.5
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I'm skeptical too, but if the gun is off two he's at 91, right where he's supposed to be. And that's pretty exciting for Mike Minor. Perhaps a little less so for us.

I always liked the guy more than most. He had a start against the Cubs his rookie month that was electric and was progressing nicely until the dick problem, which came before the shoulder problem. He is a stoic guy who was probably hurting more than we'll ever know, trying to pitch through the injury.

Wouldn't surprise me if he's a number two quality starter replacing James Shields.
 
Maeda has been pretty impressive in 3 starts, 1 run given up in 19 innings.
 
GovClintonTyree said:
I'm skeptical too, but if the gun is off two he's at 91, right where he's supposed to be. And that's pretty exciting for Mike Minor. Perhaps a little less so for us.

I always liked the guy more than most. He had a start against the Cubs his rookie month that was electric and was progressing nicely until the dick problem, which came before the shoulder problem. He is a stoic guy who was probably hurting more than we'll ever know, trying to pitch through the injury.

Wouldn't surprise me if he's a number two quality starter replacing James Shields.
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I liked him a lot. His season and a half of ace-type ball was amazing. I hate he got hurt because I really thought he would be our workhorse long term
 
Orioles fans watching Jake Arrieta pitching for the Cubs:
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Arrieta is dominant, the most dominant pitcher I have seen in baseball since Kevin Millwood in 1999. During that last 5 months of the year, that dude was just carving up hitters like they never seen a bat before.
 
Millwood1Hitter said:
Arrieta is dominant, the most dominant pitcher I have seen in baseball since Kevin Millwood in 1999. During that last 5 months of the year, that dude was just carving up hitters like they never seen a bat before.
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Kevin Millwood. That brought up bad memories of trading him. I still can't believe we traded a 28 year old pitcher who was coming off a season where he put up a 3.24 ERA in 217 IP to a division rival for a 27 year old catching prospect who had 19 MLB PA the year before. People get upset about the Tex trade but the Millwood deal might be the worst JS ever dreamed up.
 
striker42 said:
Kevin Millwood. That brought up bad memories of trading him. I still can't believe we traded a 28 year old pitcher who was coming off a season where he put up a 3.24 ERA in 217 IP to a division rival for a 27 year old catching prospect who had 19 MLB PA the year before. People get upset about the Tex trade but the Millwood deal might be the worst JS ever dreamed up.
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But.. but.. the economics of baseball stink
 
And no matter which way you shake it, the fault falls squarely on JS's blunder for what happened during the Millwood fiasco. JS's excuses we're threefold and none of them were defendable:

1) The economics of baseball stink: True, they did, but the Braves we're still amongst one of the biggest spenders at that time in terms of budget. While the new budgetary restraints put on by AOL Time Warner ownership mean't that the Braves no longer could compete for elite top tier free agents year in and year out, and the timing was bad with a good percentage of the budget tied up in long-tenured Brave veteran players, JS cornered himself into having to sell his defacto ace of the present and future for $.25 on a dollar because

2) JS made his own bed with the acquistions of Russ Ortiz and Paul Byrd. The budget was tied up in two inferior pitchers to Millwood and those funds should have been used for Milly.

3) Maddux surprisingly accepting arb. It was unknown what Maddux was going to do, but a huge miscalculation on JS's part. In the end the Maddux acceptance of arbitration should have been celebrated as Maddux was still better than either Ortiz and Byrd, along with the unknown in Hampton. While the FO placed blame on Boras and Maddux for nondialogue and the surprising acceptance of arbitration that later spurned the need to deal Millwood in a budget dump, it should have never ever gotten to that point.

4) and once all those errors we're made, did JS really have to panic and trade Millwood for little to nothing in the next few days? The season did not start, and a little more patience could have netted something more closer to the season or in spring training when another team that was close to contention was looking to boolster their pitching staff whether they decided to add or surplant an injured player.
 
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