Hello and welcome to On the Quarter of the Official Podcast, Pitchers.com.

I'm your host, Eric Smolski, joined on this gloomy, rainy Thursday afternoon.

It's Nick Pollock.

What is happening, Eric?

How are you?

I'm all right.

I just had a soup for lunch.

It's a soup kind of day, and so I feel good. Sure. Yeah. Warm's the soul. It certainly does. And, you know, we got, we got a lot of interesting things this week because we got prospect explosion before. And we have a little bit more of an understanding, maybe of which ones are okay. Maybe we don't in some cases. Sure. And I'm happy to talk it out with you. Let's get to it.

Yeah. Unfortunately, we've got some high-end pitching IL designations, and it starts off in the AL East.

The Baltimore Orioles had Trevor Rogers go on the IL. Now, it is just the flu.

So we should expect him back at the end of these 15 days.

Obviously, there is no shorter IL stint than 15 days. So he was clearly going to be out for three days or whatever with the flu.

And so the Orioles put him on the IL. And so we should just say that as of this point Thursday afternoon, it's a little bit of a speculation in terms of how

the Orioles are going to do this. They have a double header Thursday. How the double header plays

out will probably impact how many bullpen arms are used, which will impact starters. So we're

guessing a little bit here. But we do know that they have three games at the Yankees to wrap up this week and then the

wraparound game Monday at the Yankees, then three games at Miami next week, and then three

at home against the athletics. We think that Kade Povich is being called up, and it's possible

that Trey Gibson would also be called up.

So Cade Povich would get Friday at the Yankees, which I assume you're not in on.

But he would then get Thursday at Miami.

And so that is kind of interesting.

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