Here are my thoughts on McDermott: McDermott didn’t have a great debut, but it was about what you could expect from a guy with a 4 ERA in Triple-A. I’m not the biggest fan of McDermott, he doesn’t have the best stuff and his command has always been spotty. I think he’s more of a reliever, and probably not a high leverage one either. His fastball is maybe average at 94 mph and little movement, it’s not great at creating whiffs either (19% whiff rate this start). His slider and curveballs are good pitches, and I thought his changeup was really solid too. The changeup has a lot of tail on it, and tunnels pretty well with the fastball. Unfortunately, you definitely don’t want to be using an average fastball down in the zone to MLB hitters, but the changeup is good enough by itself. It seems like the Orioles aren’t going to give him much of a chance this year, he already got sent to Triple-A and the Eflin trade gives him even less of a chance. McDermott has back-end of rotation ceiling if he improves the command, but he’s already 26 with no signs of that coming.
I think he’s guna be a good one. If he can hone in command. Don’t know why they played edwards to pull, that could have been an inning ending double play. That start looks alot different
It seems obvious that the O's system isn't great for pitchers. Next to none of the top prospects have been or are pitchers (and there have been a lot of top prospects the last few years) and it also seems like its always the hitting side of signing guys that overperforms a la' O'hearn. A solid veteran like Burnes might be fine but I would not want to be a young pitcher in this system.
Are you going to do a review on Michael Mcgreevy?
Here are my thoughts on McDermott:
McDermott didn’t have a great debut, but it was about what you could expect from a guy with a 4 ERA in Triple-A. I’m not the biggest fan of McDermott, he doesn’t have the best stuff and his command has always been spotty. I think he’s more of a reliever, and probably not a high leverage one either. His fastball is maybe average at 94 mph and little movement, it’s not great at creating whiffs either (19% whiff rate this start). His slider and curveballs are good pitches, and I thought his changeup was really solid too. The changeup has a lot of tail on it, and tunnels pretty well with the fastball. Unfortunately, you definitely don’t want to be using an average fastball down in the zone to MLB hitters, but the changeup is good enough by itself. It seems like the Orioles aren’t going to give him much of a chance this year, he already got sent to Triple-A and the Eflin trade gives him even less of a chance. McDermott has back-end of rotation ceiling if he improves the command, but he’s already 26 with no signs of that coming.
I think he’s guna be a good one. If he can hone in command. Don’t know why they played edwards to pull, that could have been an inning ending double play. That start looks alot different
It seems obvious that the O's system isn't great for pitchers. Next to none of the top prospects have been or are pitchers (and there have been a lot of top prospects the last few years) and it also seems like its always the hitting side of signing guys that overperforms a la' O'hearn. A solid veteran like Burnes might be fine but I would not want to be a young pitcher in this system.
Yeah I agree the O system is goated lowkey