What is happening. Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast. Your morning pitching podcast from Pitcherlist.com. My name is Nick Pollock. Today, we're going to talk about the Baltimore Orioles. And it does seem like they're not going to be adding anyone to this offseason. Maybe they are. They'll, they still have a fifth spot open in that rotation technically. And we're going to get to all of that. But before we do, we got to talk about Grayson Rodriguez.

And I, I had a certain view of Grayson in October. That is, when I did my top 200 rankings,

I just see Grayson with a high octane fastball 97, 98, who got whiffs, but really was getting better at it.

And then you have a changeup that is really taking form and the slider is getting there. And I really feel like, well, back in

October, I felt that this was a guy destined for success who wins with his fastball. And then he also

has two amazing secondaries that are developing just going to get better. All of the opportunity in in 2024. I'm so in, I'm so in, I'm so in. I don't know if I'm in anymore.

I know that sounds really shocking. And Nick, how could you do that to us? Well, this is what

the offseason is why I say those are way too early. I'm going to be lower on Grayson than I

certainly was with that top 200.

I think I had him like 11 or 15.

I think I had 15 or 16.

It's going to be lower than that.

Why?

Because I don't know how much I believe in that fastball.

He added a 54% ICR.

54.

And sure, yeah, there was the beginning of the year and stuff.

If you want to talk about it from when he returned um after the the root awakening of the majors it still was super high

and i there are a couple problems with that one his uh v a isn't very good it's actually below

average on it he has elite velocity on it and he has

elite extension, but the

IVB and VAA are both below average.

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