Today we start a new series FAN2FAN. Here at BSR we’re not trying to kid you and act like the media. We sit in the nosebleeds just like all the other die hards in Baltimore. We constantly give you our opinion, but now we want to hear from you.
Yesterday we projected Matt Wieters 2009 season and it got a lot of people talking.
@Cliff_Forster: “Our future Catcher will benefit from a year catching the future pitchers in AAA, I don’t think we will see him in 09 at all”
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Cliff brings up a very good point that is often overlooked. Obviously Andy MacPhail is all about taking his time with young talent and now that the Orioles have future star pitchers in their farm system their catcher should learn to work with them.
I still think that Wieters gets a shot at the Majors this season, but if he doesn’t the reasoning behind it totally makes sense.
What do you think? Should Wieters stay down to work with the Bird’s future arms or should they bring him up in ’09 and give him a taste of the bigs?
I love the projections articles, they are a bold attempt at predicting the future, I love how you hang it all out on the line, to no doubt be judged at seasons end for accuracy. Its bold, I like it.
The case I want to make about Wieters is that he is part of a bigger future package. The kid himself, as great as he is, will not single handily turn the Orioles into a winning team. Its going to be Wieters in combination with some young pitching prospects that may finally give us a good five man rotation. Pitching and defense are the backbone of any realy good ball team, and you could have alot of it, and if you play your cards right, develop them together, get them all on the same page, get a true sense of team, you might be able to afford to keep them all together for years to come.
It will have value for the young arms and Wieters to form a bond, hopefully get them all working together for the same common goal, to finally bring a winning baseball formula back to Baltimore, which will likely start in 2010 with a promising season (perhaps sub .500, but promising), and I am betting we will see some real pay off come 2011 with a winner, with Nick, Brian and Adam all here as well (if we so much as make the playoff’s, I am painting myself orange and black, and running up and down the streets like a little kid).
Don’t mistake my passion for the kid, and the prospect that he could be a big league caliber player right now, I think he could. I just think he is part of a much larger picture, and it might make all the sense in the world to give him a year catching those future arms, and building a bond with them that will carry over into the bigs, hopefully next season.