![]() ![]() ![]() Another few starts (or even just one start in Rodriguez's case) and they're there. The kids - Bradish, Kremer, Rodriguez, Wells - are all nearing their previous career-high innings totals. I would imagine Irvin, who has bounced between MLB and Triple-A, and between the rotation and the bullpen, will get starts down the stretch just to lighten the load on everyone else. Irvin will be fine as well he's thrown over 150 innings in a season several times. The O's don't have to worry about Gibson, the veteran leader who has been chewing up innings since his first full big-league season in 2014. Here are the workloads of the team's six regular starters (innings totals include minor leagues, postseason, etc.): Incredibly, the Orioles have used only seven different starting pitchers this year - only the Blue Jays and Nationals (six each) have used fewer starters - and one of the seven, Keegan Akin, made just one spot start as part of a bullpen game. They don't want these guys getting fatigued and hitting a wall in mid-August, you know? Also, the young pitchers are rapidly approaching their previous career high in innings. ![]() They can be very helpful too.īaltimore's starters rank 16th with a 4.49 ERA and 19th with 5.5 WAR, so firmly middle of the pack. Absent that, Baltimore will have to stick to rentals, and there's nothing wrong with rentals. The ideal addition would be someone under contract or team control behind 2023 like, say, Dylan Cease or Jesús Luzardo. The O's brought in Shintaro Fujinami last week and figure to seek a starting pitcher prior to the deadline. GM Mike Elias is a bit cagey and continues to preach the long-term vision, but the players have put themselves in position to be reinforced at the deadline. How aggressively will they add? I'm not sure. Now that they're in first place and near lock to make the postseason, expect the Orioles to add at the deadline. De La Cruz hits the ball very hard and gets more out of his grounders than those guys, but the fact is he hits a lot of ground balls, and ground balls mute offensive output because they don't go for extra bases often and don't go over the fence ever. Not a group you want to be in, offensively. The next few names on that leaderboard are guys like Ji-Hwan Bae, Nicky Lopez, and Raimel Tapia. Here are the highest ground ball rates in baseball entering Tuesday's games (min. ![]() The next step for De La Cruz is learning how to elevate the ball more often, and get the most out of that natural power. The raw tools and natural gifts - the power, the speed, the arm - are obvious. The City of San Diego approved a year-round closure near the Cove along the Point La Jolla bluffs during their pupping season for this very reason - to protect visitors from mating behavior that could create hazards for visitors.Growing pains and adjustment periods come with the territory with young players and it was inevitable De La Cruz would hit a bump in the road at some point. “I understand their excitement and they want to get close, but it’s nature. And for us locals, it’s annoying because we like and respect the wildlife here,” Perez Estrada added. “People get bit here every summer, people get charged every summer. There are no hard-and-fast local regulations or fines, but there are federal guidelines that make it illegal to engage in some of the behavior seen by unknowing visitors to La Jolla Cove. Posted signs warn not to touch the sea life at the beach, but with little to no enforcement, there’s really nothing to be done. “They are wild animals, but they don’t typically charge people just for the heck of it,” Davidoff said. “I looked to my left and I see a big sea lion just come out of the water and start charging and that’s when it turns to chaos,” Perez Estrada said. “Everyone was screaming and running around.” He swims the cove every day and captured video of the incident as he was getting out of the water. “I feel like people should educate themselves a little bit about the marine life here - what to do, what not to do, respect the sea lions, don’t touch them, don’t get in their space,” Japhet Perez Estrada, a La Jolla native and business owner, said to Nexstar’s KSWB on Monday. The incident happened as summer crowds, mostly tourists, overwhelmed the tiny, protected beach - one of the most iconic in California - trying to get up-close photos with the beautiful sea mammals and newly weaned pups. SAN DIEGO ( KSWB) – Beachgoers were startled by a sea lion that appeared to charge them at La Jolla Cove in San Diego Sunday evening, but one expert says the humans may not have been the intended target. ![]()
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