What is happening. Welcome to the PlusPitch Podcast. You're more pitching podcast from

PitcherList.com. My name is Nick Pollack. And today we're going to talk about the Baltimore

Orioles. So this is not the best pitching staff. We've known this for a while with this crew.

And the first one we got to talk about is Kyle Bradish. Kyle Bradish is coming back from his Tommy John season where he had just about 32

innings last season on the dot 253 ERA, the 103 whip because he was really great in those six

starts.

And he looked like the Kyle Bradish of old.

He had the slider that was looking great, the curveball that was looking great, and

featuring more of that sinker and not allowing this four seamer to be in the zone too much, which is what we want, because it's an ultra-cut foreseemar that gets hit really hard by righties.

I would love for Calabaraj to throw that inside the lefties.

He doesn't have that skill yet.

It's fine.

Because Calabranish next season is going to throw every five days.

And I've been hearing some discussion about, oh, there's injury risk, there's workload

concerns.

Throw that out the window.

I have a rule and I've yet to see it broken, which is if a pitcher has gone over 150 innings in the past, they are

expected to hit that again when they return for a full year.

So Cal Bradish had over 160 innings, and then the next year he had Tommy John, and then he

missed most of that year, and then 2025, etc.

And let's be honest, the Orioles are not going to slow play Kyle Bradish.

Sure, they might go four innings or five innings or really 75 pitches here and there for

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