Is Mike Elias holding the Orioles back from championship contention?
Is Mike Elias holding the Orioles back from championship contention? | Baseball Bar-B-Cast
Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman break down the Baltimore Orioles pitching struggles in the Mike Elias era and discuss how those struggles are impacting championship potential. Hear the full conversation on the 'Baseball Bar-B-Cast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Do you know how many pitchers drafted in the Mike Elias era, the GM of the Orioles, have debuted, have played for the Baltimore Orioles, pitchers.
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It's absolutely single digits, and I think the answer is probably like between 4 and 6, but that even maybe is high because again, you look at some of the guys that they've, even the, the success stories, right?
We know Grayson was drafted before them.
Bradish was a Trade, a hell of a trade acquisition, right?
We know that a lot of these other guys were either international ones, and then even a guy like Brandon Young, who just made his debut.
I know this is kind of a goofy trick question.
I believe he was undrafted, so I guess you could still count him, but I guess he's not part of this.
So I'm gonna guess 5 is gonna be my prediction.
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It is 00.
So who's even the closest?
Brandon Young feels.
Like he should count a little bit because he was an undrafted free agent in 2020.
Connor Gillespie.
was an Orioles draftee who has debuted elsewhere.
He is the only Orioles draftee to show up elsewhere in the big leagues during this time.
Cade Stroud was called up this week, did not get into a game sent back down.
He would have been the first.
All right.
Now look, I understand that there was a lot of skulduggery there with my levers being pulled to make that fact.
But this is not a tiny, this is fine.
This is clearly making a point.
Right?
I mean, again, not to make this about my team.
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Look at the mayors they've been doing.
I mean, they've been, they just pulled out another starter in Logan Evans, who was a 12th round pick two years ago.
Like, there are other teams that are finding in this era of pitching development where you don't need to be picking at the top to find a, of course, there's the Paul Skeans, not everyone has access to Paul Skeans at 11, but it's 2025.
You find pitchers from random places and you turn them into big leaguers.
Like that's what happens, not in Baltimore.
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