He had some flashes of super. Zimmerman was a little random. Baumann's ouchie elbow worries me the most.

These young guys are up and down. I think they showed a lot in their brief time.

I checked the 2019 numbers of those two teams and they are not bad, long way to go but they look promising Mike.

Good amount of pitching.

I have checked the Bowie stats too especially from the starters and they are not bad too.

Zac Lowther GS 26 ERA 2.55 SO 154 WHIP 1.11
Alexander Wells GS 24 ERA 2.95 SO 105 WHIP 1.07
Bruce Zimmermann GS 17 ERA 2.58 SO 101 WHIP 1.20
Dean Kremer GS 15 ERA 2.98 SO 87 WHIP 1.23
Michael Baumann GS 11 ERA 2.31 SO 65 WHIP 0.94

It is a long time ago that I saw so many guys with an ERA below 3

They shut Baumann down in whatever camp because of a forearm strain. Every elbow surgery in Oriole history was listed as a forearm strain to start. I am heartbroken about that one. Zim and Kremer came up last summer. Barring epic failure, they're here. Part of my three part monster. They protected Wells from the rule 5 draft. Two of our best monsters are younger. Grayrod and D.L. Hall.

Akin's in there, too.

Baumann supposed to begin a throwing program right about now.

Akin exceeded my expectations.

I see Grayson Rodriguez was at Delmarva in 2019 with impressive numbers. Somehow Mike Elias is getting a bunch of decent arms true the draft and trades. perhaps there IS hope for the Orioles fan-base.

Akin had bad numbers in his final yr. at Norfolk because they made him use his secondary pitches in all situations and he made mistakes.But it did him good in the long run.