00:00the orioles offense what's the uh the ceiling i think it's pretty high even though they're
00:06going to be minus two starters in the infield at least coming out of spring training i think
00:10the rotation is better than last year what what does that mean because last year was one of the
00:15worst in baseball and the bullpen trying to come together and nolan pointed out that wolf ram
00:21is pitching today and he looks great one inning and not so much he's cnl perez maybe not as good
00:28as catching home runs in the bullpen though let's go to ryan in uh baltimore ryan what's up
00:33hey gentlemen good morning happy friday all right same to you so bobby just talked about it that
00:38there's two holes in the infield and i think what scares me for this orioles team right now is just
00:43the month of april um i say that because obviously we have jackson out probably for the first half of
00:49that plus he's gonna have to get some rehab starts down in the minors or wherever so that'll probably
00:54be the whole month of april until he comes back plus you also have westberg who if the prp injections
01:00work out like they should um you're looking at maybe mid-may best case scenario so the month of
01:05april is going to be going to be the scary time and if you remember last year the month of
01:09april was
01:09kind of where we lost the whole entire season you know after may kind of started to pick up and
01:14we
01:15actually had a really good record after april so i think what it's going to come down to is how
01:20good
01:20kobe mayo can do at third base and then i guess blaze alexander at second and then once holiday
01:27comes back after april i think mayo's the odd man out who gets moved to the bench you move alexander
01:33to third and then you have holiday play second because i mean we've heard uh you know last week
01:38i think it was um a former teammate of mine uh tyler locklear with arizona i'm sure he um he
01:45that blaze is
01:46actually a better third baseman so i think it just makes sense that unless kobe mayo's bat is
01:51absolutely scorching which right now it is then uh then i think he's the odd man out now obviously
01:58defensively if we give up five runs it doesn't matter if we uh can score uh you know six seven
02:03or eight so that's kind of the name of the game right to score more runs than the other team
02:06so as
02:07long as the offense is doing good i think it'll make up for the defensive losses and ryan real quick
02:11did locklear go to curly am i right on that one yep yep and locklear's uh going out with bobby
02:18gimmel's daughter i think or they were they're engaged i know i think they're they may be married
02:24by now i don't know all right so there you go a little name drop in ryan in baltimore but
02:28points
02:29are well taken uh but mayo does he give it their taketh away and you know i don't know if
02:35i want if
02:36the oras could score six runs a game that's great yeah but i don't know their team eras pushing five
02:42i mean then it means a lot of uh may locks and drinking watching the game every night you know
02:47i mean i would like some comfortable victories here yeah i mean i i think i have some some strong
02:54confidence in the starting rotation and it just depends on how the bullpen goes but yeah i don't
02:58i don't think that mayo's uh you know defensive flaws are going to count to to five runs or so
03:05but
03:05you know i think he's a solid option and like i said if if when jackson comes back he's obviously
03:10going to probably play second base and move blaze over there so we just got to make it through that
03:15first month and also more experience at third base for mayo might be a good thing that he starts to
03:19work it out kind of like gunner at short yeah and eventually he gets traded yeah who knows how
03:23it goes or west or westburg gets traded if he can't stay on the field hey ryan good call have
03:28a
03:28great weekend and look you know these five run innings you know it's bottom of the second
03:34ground ball to 30 boots it and then all of a sudden one out becomes no outs and then there's
03:39a man on first and then things kind of go haywire but it goes back to the old mantra pick
03:45up your
03:45teammates then you put the onus on the pitcher and the other players to make up for that miscue
03:53they are called errors they're not called on purposes you know i mean it is a mistake but
03:59he's three for three three errors in three games yeah third base so it's uh you know just
04:07you just tighten it up a little bit because the bat the intrigue has always been with his bat
04:12and we've seen it in spring training so far i don't know man him at third base i we know
04:20we talked
04:20about it yesterday if muscles and ward and balonzo and gunner etc are doing what they're supposed to
04:29to do i would prefer a guy that would tighten up defensively and live with a 240 batting average
04:40maybe not a buck 90 but you get where i'm coming from right as opposed to a guy that he's
04:45going to
04:45add to the clubbing of the opposing team but it's going to be a liability when it comes to you
04:51know
04:51doing his job with the glove so to at least start the season where we're going to assume that jackson
04:55holiday is going to need a little ramp up you know not going to be there for opening day if
04:59even if
05:00it's a couple weeks just a week in the minors he's not there i would think he'll he'll start taking
05:05ground balls and stuff next week well it's i mean we're under a month till opening day uh i don't
05:12know
05:12i mean it'd be great if he's it just helps everybody if he's ready by opening day but let's say
05:16that he's
05:16not and you have blaze at second and it's vacant third and you're choosing between mayo and others
05:20bob you're saying here that you might go a tyro estrada who by the way is the dh today
05:27okay well let's see what he's got for his glove and ramos is at third but and we'll give you
05:34the
05:34lineup in totality but is it estrada a guy supposed to be able to do some things for you defensively
05:42that's the point yeah that's that's the thought so i'm not i'm not the gm of the team well it
05:47goes
05:48back that they've got they've given themselves a lot of names here it's kind of like what i was
05:52saying with the bullpen you're not really overly confident that any of these guys are particularly
05:56great but there's a lot of names on the board right now to choose from so i at my point
06:01and i
06:02guess it's going old man stuff i'll go strong glove in an already loaded lineup versus a weak glove
06:09in an already loaded lineup i mean if you want to bash people's brains in it's fun to watch the
06:15games the last three hours i mean that's all very touching but you know i'd rather have a guy that's
06:20steady and can turn double plays and you know has the wherewithal with the baseball instincts
06:25defensively to he can be an asset to if he might be somewhat of a liability with the stick he
06:32can help
06:32you win games with his glove i'd agree with you but it's all dependent on a actual defensive person
06:38rising up and showing that ability that is true
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