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Around SBN: Are The Orioles Bad Or Unlucky With Their Young Pitching?

my hunch is the team will return rookie C Josh Thole to Triple-A next season… he looked good, and i believe they see him having the potential to be a Paul Lo Duca type, but he needs time in Triple-A where he can catch former major-league pitchers, who have more substantial repertoire than he received in Double-A

Cerrone on how he expects the organization to handle Thole
This is pretty frustrating, if the organization's holdback is that they feel Thole doesn't have enough experience handling veteran pitchers. Especially considering Thole raked in Double-A all year, and many of us here at AA, myself included, were saying this exact same thing, except in May. Why waste an otherwise useless Triple-A team full of veterans, a team that should be much more about real prospects this year, when it would have been the perfect proving ground for Thole's receiving skills?

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I used to hear rumors about how Cerrone was shilling for the Mets FO.

If it hasn’t been confirmed before, it has now!

Beer is good! And stuff!

by R_Adragna on Oct 21, 2009 11:08 PM EDT reply actions  

That was my exact reaction.

Why didn’t they promote him like, oh, I dunno, two months sooner?

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Oct 21, 2009 11:50 PM EDT reply actions  

If Thole is a Paul Lo Duca type I will be dissapointed

"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"

by firejerrynow on Oct 22, 2009 6:37 AM EDT reply actions  

Why?

I think what most people mean by that is Paul Lo Duca circa 2006, not he whole career.

by Balagast on Oct 23, 2009 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions  

How do you return to a place you've never been?

Not that Cerrone knows anything about anything.

www.twitter.com/willDavidian

by All Shook Down on Oct 22, 2009 8:08 AM EDT reply actions  

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