Eaton speaks
Melvin Mora homered in the eighth inning to increase the Orioles' lead to 9-5, but the Cardinals pushed across a run against David Pauley in the bottom half.
Update: Nick Markakis singled to score Jolbert Cabrera in the ninth inning and give the Orioles a 10-6 lead. Markakis has three RBIs.
Adam Eaton said he didn't have "everything working at the same time, ever."
"Curveball was lacking the first couple innings. Fastball location was pretty good the first couple innings and then strayed. It was frustrating, for the most part. I try to make a pitch here and there, make it, and have bad results happen, or try to make it and leave it off the plate. But at the same time, I still got five innings and 90 pitches in, so in that regard, mission accomplished. At the same time, I fell an inning short of what I wanted to do. I wanted to go out there for six and I look forward to doing that next time.
"It's my fifth time on the mound against competition. I feel like I'm progressing. Today, I had bouts of not being very good, but I'd come back and put zeros on the board. It's not my decision, but at the same time, I know I will help this team at the big league level. If you look at my record in spring training, it's never been very good. I don't get paid for this. Nobody gets paid for this. You still want results, but you've still got to go by how you feel and how things are working for you.
"I appreciate the fact that I'm here. They've given me a good opportunity, and if I'm given that opportunty at the big league level, I think they'll be very well-rewarded."
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If you look at his record, you will see that he's "never been very good."
...look at my track record...I dont get paid for this...Shut up. FAce it you are not a good pitcher. I'm sure you are collecting a paycheck right now
Nice to have Mora back...Eaton was somewhat honest at least..he sure believes in himself and his talent however bad that may be. Apparently he feels he is coming along just fine and almost ready...I guess I will shut up...no need to beat a dead horse as they say..all I am left to say is wow--maybe I am nuts...I just don't see it.
Wow I cannot believe this guy brought up he doesn't get paid for ST and that is why his numbers are down. THROW HIM OFF THE TEAM. That is the wrong attitude. He is doing it only for the money. Ugh, bad taste in my mouth.
Why didn't Eaton say:
'I've never had anything working at anytime together since I've been in the majors, and I can't believe these suckers are paying me money to be here...Is this a great country or what?'
Adam Eaton = Steve Trachsel
"If you look at my record in spring training, it's never been very good" . . . the problem is, when we look at his record during the last 3 regular seasons, it's not been very good either . . .
I really hope he has a great year, but it's hard to imagine him pitching better this year in the AL East than he has in the last 3 years . . .
Wow... hate much? So much venom being spewed at someone who hasn't actually thrown an important inning for us. You know, there are pitchers who actually use spring training to work on things, trying to use pitches that need work over pitches that don't.
Eaton was pretty good in San Diego, a good pitchers park. He was awful in Texas and Philadelphia, two of the biggest hitters parks in the majors. OPACY, if you look at the numbers, is not the super hitters park that most fans think it is. It favors hitters, but not by nearly that much. Eaton is probably somewhere in between where he was in SD and where he was in Philly.
Hey, Guthrie was pounded in the WBC and has been bad in ST here, too. We should get rid of him, too. Hey, let's get rid of all of them, since we lost so many spring training games. Let's start the season with five starting pitchers who have never, ever, ever, pitched even an inning of major league baseball but the scouts tell us they're going to be real good someday. Of course, it won't be any time soon and we might be ruining their careers like we did to Matt Riley and Daniel Cabrera, but it doesn't matter because what we have now sucks and we have to overreact to EVERYTHING that happens in spring training because we are FRUSTRATED ORIOLES FANS(TM).
*sigh*
Before the days of the Internet, I used to believe that O's fans were among the most intelligent in baseball.
"Not very good" describes the average big league 4th or 5th starter these days. An ERA under 5 seems to be good enough to stick in the major leagues these days. Can Eaton do that? Yeah, probably. In the long run though - and I can't believe I'm saying it - I suspect Daniel Cabrera will have a better year than most of the current Orioles' starters. Oh, and Jack? How's about a genuinely intelligent post one of these days? You've got no bullets in your gun - all you do is bitch, but have not a single constructive suggestion beyond throwing money at everything. As Don Imus sometims tells his callers, "Please die!"
Well said, BillG.
Jim - My thoughts exactly. He even sounds like Trachsel. His rhetoric is sickening and exhausting. Almost makes me ill.
He will never, "ever" go six innings.
I love everything that AM has done with two exceptions. Hendrickson and Eaton. It's time that he just admits he made a mistake and grab some unknown off the waiver wire. The only way for O's fans to be "very well-rewarded" is for Eaton to be released.
"Eaton was somewhat honest at least..he sure believes in himself and his talent however bad that may be."
Did they give him #15? Reminds me of someone else who used to toot his own horn all the time. Those comments should get him the lead role in the new Orioles Magic video.
Nice to have Mora back...Eaton was somewhat honest at least..he sure believes in himself and his talent however bad that may be. Apparently he feels he is coming along just fine and almost ready...I guess I will shut up...no need to beat a dead horse as they say..all I am left to say is wow--maybe I am nuts...I just don't see it.
I think you guys missed the point of his quote (or at least how I understood it). He wasn't saying "I don't care about my Spring Training because I don't get paid for it". I think he was saying, "The Orioles aren't paying me to play well in Spring Training - they're paying me to play well during the regular season". (of course, the Phillies are paying him the bulk of his salary, but that's not my point)
Anyway, if Eaton can give us 100+ innings of sub-5.00 ERA pitching, that will be an improvement over last season (considering he's being compared to guys like Cabrera, Liz, and Olson). Seeing as we're paying him the league minimum salary - why are we so harsh on him?