Or at least that's what Mississippi Matt Smith argues in his latest, most incendiary piece on NotGraphs. It is surprising to read how unmitigatingly terrible the Orioles are, despite being 1.0 game of the top spot in the toughest division in sports.

He is doing work for the Jays radio market now and he had a nice blog post on Niemann's post-game reaction and Howell's pre-game attitude.

buried within Sobsey's recap from Durham's final win is a note about how Torres has scrapped his curveball for a slider.

Nice to see one of the upper level teams do well this season

For a player to be named later. Given Francisco's numbers, the PTBNL is likely to be a lower level arm of little significance.

They should be in Toronto in time for Saturday's game

And there was nothing the Gla(e)ssman could do. Holy shit is that team's lineup awful.

(Missed this yesterday) Basically, there's nothing wrong with his statistical line, and the stuff impresses as well; his fastball, while off from his high school days in terms of velocity, has sat at 90-95 with sink and, more importantly, tremendous control. His power curveball is already plus, and while his changeup lags behind, that's common for a pitcher with his experience, and there's plenty of right now talent to be very excited about.

Punching lockers is a no-win situation and now Sean's presumptive recall on 9/1 will be delayed.