Inside Access with Jason LaCanfora and Ken Weinman
Is Ronnie Stanley or Marlon Humphrey more likely to bounce back this year?
In the first hour of "Inside Access", the guys discuss who they think is more likely to breakout this season between Ronnie Stanley and Marlon Humphrey. They also discuss the Orioles tough loss to the Mariners in the final game of the series and give their overall thoughts on the O's bullpen.
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- 05 Jul 2024
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Close this game open. It's fine to Mariners. It's that friend of the show, Dave Sims on the call of Mariners television and a funny thing happen on the way to a sweep yesterday. Orioles up 2-0 early could not add on runs though. They had opportunities and then the fifth inning unkind. Two Corbin Burns gave up the 0-2 home run to Julio Rodriguez loaded the base with nobody out was fortunate to only give up one more game tied bullpen. Not good as Brian Baker and Keegan Aiken both control issues and then giving up meatballs in Aiken's case and the Orioles lose to the Mariners 7-3. Orioles do take 2-3 from the Mariners. They had to Oakland tonight. They're two games up in the division. Yeah, bullpen P down at the leg in the seventh inning. But we'll get more into that on the other side. But this was a game we were talking about in the bullpen can wear offensively if they were able to get another key hit early. I mean, this could have been four to nothing, five to nothing. But even with that 2-0 lead following that Gunnar Henderson home run with how this series had been going, I mean, it almost felt like insurmountable for the Mariners. You go to that fifth inning Ken and Kevin Brown gave this out on on Masson yesterday. Julio Rodriguez, Homer and then Ty France singled. That was the first inning of the series in which the Mariners had multiple hits in an inning. That is unbelievable Ken first inning. They have trouble hitting, but yes, they do. They have the worst bad average in the majors and that was very much on display. But Burns, as you said, Ken, lucky to only give up those two runs in the fifth. Some people on Twitter, some fans were saying, well, 94 pitches. Would you have liked to have seen him gone out for the seventh, Ken? I'm okay with the decision the way it was. I do wonder if he doesn't have that weird fifth inning, he probably gets the seven easy. But 2-2 game, he gave you six, he's at 94 pitches. You know what, you're not trying to win the World Series every night. And quite frankly, when you play on a night to night basis, sometimes the other guys have to help you win. Now, the bigger question we're going to get to it next segment is who some of these other guys are and maybe who they should be because not only are there possible trade candidates, but they're internal candidates that could replace some of the underbelly of this bullpen. At least got a look see, but like the reality is Brian Baker was fun for a minute. And now not so much, not, not as fun. I would have liked to see him finish that inning after getting the strikeout with the bases loaded because there are two things that play with Keegan. Keegan, he can't get left. He's out of late and J. pre Crawford hits left. He's so like, it's, it's the ultimate reverse split. And then of course, because it's his first battery starts 3-0 and it's, it's, he doesn't have the stuff to beat you with a fastball and it's game over. So he gives up to three run double, he gives up to two run homer and it's lights out in a can. He gave up, well, the inherited runners to Baker, but he's responsible for a lot of the damage that the Mariners, he gave up the only run in the game two days. And then he gives up two and, and then Baker's three yesterday. Yeah, it was a sour ending to the series, obviously dropping a very winnable game, but worth noting they won the series. Yes. They won the series on the road in a very difficult ballpark to win at. After yesterday, Mariners are 29 and 16 at home this year. And a lot of it had to do with, you know, game two. And that was Dean Kramer, Ken, where we didn't really know what to expect from him. And I think it was another reminder how maybe we shouldn't get all up in arms. If guys are free half starts, heck, you can even go back to John Means where he failed to get out of the first inning. In his second to last rehab start, he pitched well prior to going down with the elbow injury again, again, but Kramer. I mean, if he can provide that type of impact, that would be huge for this. If he can provide that split, like where would, where did that come from? The split? He was throwing that guy. I've never seen that before. Palmer was old. If he found that Norfolk and he can continue with that, like that's a, that's a putaway pitch. And Ken, I was so impressed with his command. I mean, he was just hitting his spots routinely that entire night. I mean, he was just pinpoint accurate pitching. Here's the thing. What I like to see in the Orioles win yesterday, absolutely, especially with the Yankees getting swept against Cincinnati. It takes the lead to three. I'm still pretty happy to go into Oakland against a bunch of guys I've never heard of. No, no, no, anything can happen. It's baseball. You know, if they, if they lost two or three to Oakland, I'd be, I'd not be thrilled, but it's part of baseball. Keep in mind Oakland came here and took two or three earlier this season. Exactly. So like things happen in baseball, but you're going against a bad baseball team who is quite frankly, as usual. They have one three straight, but like they're not playing the best baseball in the world. They're 23 games under 500. Basically the Orioles and ACE have reverse records. The Orioles are 55 and 32. The A's are 33 and 55. They, they essentially, they're, they're mirror images. So like it's an opportunity to continue playing good baseball and then another day awful on Monday before you start a home stand before the all-star break. And the two teams that come here can cubbies. They're really struggling and the Yankees. They're really struggling. So during this next nine games heading into the all-star break, you know, build some momentum. If you can go six and three through these next three series, you'll take it riding into that off week. No, you're absolutely right. And, and I was impressed for the most part with what I saw, the bullpen save for yesterday. Uh, I've been very happy, like Jacob Webb, Cino Perez, Kimbrel, another two saves. He's going to the all-star game. I'm like, I'm just telling you, he's going to the all-star game. Uh, 21 saves now and an ERA of two, two, three, just utterly, it continues to utterly be impressive, especially when you think about the slump he went into earlier in the season and losing the closures role temporarily and now where he is. Ken, I mentioned it Wednesday where you look at his career ERA. His ERA this year is lower. You look at his career whip. His whip this year is lower in his age, what, 35, 36 season. I mean, things were looking dire back in May where you removed him from the closer role. And then ever since then, man, he's given up that one earned run and that was in Yankee Stadium. That was the only blown save during that span. He's been really, really good. We have a huge Friday show. Hope everyone enjoyed their July 4th holiday. Jason out. He'll be out all next week as well. So we will be, but we'll be holding it down in the meantime. Guess why today? It's a Friday. So we'll talk to our friend, Ariel Epstein from Fnatic Sportsbook, MLB TV and NBA TV. Uh, we'll also get Ben, uh, Beltway Ben Hall's best bets at three o'clock. Martin Gallegos covers the A's for MLB.com. We'll talk A's at 3.30. We'll talk Orioles with Jake Rill covers the A's from OB.com at four. And Mark Slerith has been, uh, very popular in these parts over the last few days. He has some thoughts on Lamar Jackson. He's kind enough to join us at five o'clock. Yeah, very excited to talk to Mark. And we also have a couple of polls out already on IA-105-7 the fan. One in regards to Anthony Santander. Of course, he's going to be a free agent at the end of the year. Do you want to see the O's extend him or let him walk? We have Rita Hubbard on the show Tuesday. She said streets were saying O's interest didn't resigning him. Would you be cool with that? And also at the bottom of the hour, we're going to get into two critical Ravens for this season. And that's Ronnie Stanley and Marlon Humphrey. Which player are we more confident in that will have a bounce back season? We'll let you know them coming up next though. We're going to take a deep dive into this Oreo bullpen. The good, the bad, and we'll set table trades for the time being. But are there some guys on the farm that can help this team right now? We have some thoughts next here on the fan. We all belong outside. We're drawn to nature, whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to. We're the succulents that adorn our homes. Nature makes all of our lives well better. 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They coming up and the officer break those guys should get a good break and be ready to go for the second half. That's Corbin Burns. He says he's confident in the bullpen. I think for the most part, we're confident in the bullpen. I still would add a high leverage arm to help out. Craig Kimball because let's face these older and you'd like to have another option at the back end. But you near Cano, is he as good as he was last year? No, but he's been more of the good than bad. She now Perez seems to be coming right back into form. Jacob Webb has had himself a nice year. But when you look at the underbelly of the bullpen. Keegan Aiken who has an option, but for some real, some reason he seems to be a sacred cow. Like they won't, they won't use that option. They keep running him out there. He got hit again yesterday. And Brian Baker, who let's face it, had a nice couple of weeks, but now control is an issue and he's getting hit a little bit. We'd like to see the Orioles make trades, but and Jacob Calvin Meyer wrote a piece this morning in the Baltimore Sun. And these are names we discussed last week when we had this conversation. One is Chase McDermott and I'm talking strictly about guys at Norfolk that could help this team right now. And guys that wouldn't take trading anything. And I saw Ken Rosenthal. He's on a foul territory show right now. And he said, and he was asked, one of the trades going to start. And he said, well, teams are focusing on the draft right now. So, I don't know if any big trades are happening soon, but these are moves they could make right now. Chase McDermott is a right handed pitcher who's a starter at AAA, pitching well at AAA. But could be a huge help to this team in the bullpen. McDermott's the one that really jumps out to me. I mean, he's a touted prospect, but the strikeout rate, I mean, 33.4% strikeout rate at AAA, like Povich, the Walks can be an issue for him. But he's coming off arguably his best start of the season can go on seven innings last time out against Norfolk. And what's also important to point out McDermott and the couple guys that we're about to get to, none of them are on the 40-man, but you can still put Kyle Bradish and Danny Coulomb on the 60-day IMO to create spots. So, you have two open spots at the ready to bring those guys on. Hey, and you talk about Chase McDermott's Walks. Well, it's not like Brian Baker and Keegan Aiken. Brian Baker went 0-2 to a guy in the seventh inning. As soon as he went 1-2, and I'm driving home from a family party yesterday, and I got the game on the radio, as soon as he went 1-2, I said to Margie, he's going to walk this guy. And she goes, "How do you know?" I go, "He doesn't have an out pitch." Like, he doesn't have an out pitch, and now, and I can just tell that he's trying to aim stuff. And of course, he eventually walked him. So, like, I'll take a chance on Chase McDermott. He mentions three other guys in this piece. Left-hander Luis Gonzalez is the best strikeout to walk rate in AAA. Tucker Davidson has a 2-2 ERA this season, and he's lowered his walk weight drastically in recent weeks, and side armor Nolan Hoffman has a lot of earned run in 19 consecutive innings. These are three more guys that you could put up from AAA that all they do is cost you a 40-man spot, and as you said, you've got ways to create 40-man spot. Yeah, you got those two, and then you can obviously get creative with the rest, but we're not saying to bring in, "Okay, let's just revamp this." Let's just revamp the entire bullpen with these Norfolk guys, but one or two of these guys can, needs to get a run, and I'm talking ASAP because the trade deadline's in 25 days. Yes. And who knows? You might be able to catch lightning in a bottle with some of these guys. We've seen, year after year, Mike Elias, fine guys off the scrappy. Look at you, Nair Kanell, who was an all-star last year. Jacob Webb, Danny Coulomb. I mean, there has been countless guys that this organization has been able to find that have been able to help stabilize this bullpen, and if you give one or two of these guys a runway in these next couple of weeks, I mean, maybe they could help you down the stretch, but also conversely, maybe they can't, and that's fine. Yes. You're already in the same position of needing to acquire bullpen on it. Here's what we think we know right now. Keegan Aiken and Brian Baker are not helping you in the postseason. Keegan Aiken and Brian Baker, and thank you Keegan Aiken when he goes, yeah, thank you for your service, thank you for your service, for what you did Keegan Aiken early, and Brian Baker, those two weeks were magnificent. But we think we know they're not helping you in the playoffs. So we can put that aside. Do I know that these four guys, if you bring any of them up, are going to help? No, but they might, and we know these guys aren't. Exactly. You know, if they end up blowing up in your face, then okay, you're in the same exact spot that you already are in. And that's why, honestly, given one of these guys, two of these guys a run, run up, you know, a couple of weeks ago would have made a lot of sense, but they need more in this bullpen right now, because look, you didn't have the quote unquote, a team available yesterday, like a Perez or a canoe, a camera, but you're going to have to rely on other guys. It's like you were saying, Ken, in the bullpen, you're going to have to find other guys in this pen that you can trust. And right now you're still looking. Yeah, I feel like when the postseason comes, you're not going to see the underbelly, the bullpen much. But in a 162 game regular season, there are going to be times where these guys are going to be the, they decide whether you win or lose a baseball game. And yesterday they decided you were going to lose a baseball game because one guy couldn't throw strikes and the other one could throw strikes. And then the other one just gave up a couple meatballs. Like at some point, if these guys, and Brad and Hyde said after the game, lousy, lousy seventh inning. Like we pitched lousy in the seventh inning. So he acknowledged it. Now I wonder do they do anything about it? And again, I'm not saying trade because you, what usually happens with bullpen arms, it's the last day. Like you saw like David Roberts a few days ago, a dullest chattering got traded early last year. But a lot of bullpen arms get traded like in the last day, couple days of the deadline. So if the Orioles add arms to the bullpen that way, it's not happening today tomorrow. But you could get guys in this bullpen and maybe you're saying, well, they're out in Oakland. So it's not realistic to get them out there this weekend. You got a day off on Monday. You could put a couple new guys in this bullpen for Tuesday when the Cubs come to town. That's our question. And maybe even Kobe Mayo. Well, yeah, we'll get to that as well. But also I think we need to point out as well. Brandon Hyde yesterday bringing in Keegan, Aiken for JP Crawford where Crawford, he hits lefties better than Mariteys and Aiken left these two better against him than Mariteys do where it's not always cut and dry of doing the lefty lefty match up. Yeah, I said in the moment, I just stuck with Baker there. And I don't love Brian Baker, but his stuff is better. And JP Crawford hits lefties and Aiken doesn't get lefties out. And then you could hear the steam coming out of Jim Palmer's head when he goes 3-0 to Crawford. And at that point, it's curtains. He gets the 3-1 strike because he's taking. Then he throws another meatball down the center of the plate and it's a 3-run double. Something that we do know that I believe was announced Wednesday after the show is Brandon Hyde made official that Cole Ervin is going to be the whole pen. Albert Suarez of course is starting tonight. So Ervin, I hope can be that guy to provide some length in the pen. But I guess even with him, Cannon, he did pitch better in the pen last year than he was as a starter. I'm not exactly holding my breath for him either. Cole Ervin is now Nick Vespi. Like that's who he is. He replaced Vespi in the bullpen. He's not going to get a whole lot of run because quite frankly, what's really concerning, and we talked about this a lot last week, he's getting hit so hard like he's not fooling anybody. His last four starts, the hard hit rate is ridiculous and you're just not going to be a winning ball player or winning pitcher throwing to the point where guys aren't fooled by what you're throwing. No, not at all. I mean, he doesn't really throw particularly hard. And if he doesn't have command, it's all about that with Cole Ervin. I mean, he really doesn't have a put out. And he has to get ground balls and he's getting none. Everything's hitting the air. Everything's hit hard. Other than that, everything's great. Everything's great. As somebody tweeted, and I apologize, I don't remember, somebody did tweet yesterday about Keegan Aiken, and it said something to the effect of, you have to admit other than the three run double and the two run homer, he looked really good yesterday. Yeah. Yeah, same with Cole Ervin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got to be positive. But Jason, not here, we're bringing the positive. Oh, absolutely. Coming up next, we switched to Ravens. And two guys that, let's face it, they're on the clock. And this is going to be a big season for them. One on each side of the ball. Who do you have more confidence in this season? Ronnie Stanley or Marlon Humphrey will discuss next here on the fan. Exactly. Ronnie came out, he was, he was away until the first day of OTAs. And then he was here, he's been here for every OTA and every, and the workouts. And he looked good, you know, he's looked good. I was, I was pleased, very pleased. And Ronnie's talented, he's working super hard. He's getting tested. These guys like Gaddafi and these guys are coming. I'm bringing it as you guys, I think he wrote about that. They're bringing it, man. And it's good, it's good for, it's good to work together like that. We like to have our good guys, our starters work against our starters a lot because, and these drills because it's not full contact. And they get a chance to really kind of challenge each other's technique. John Harbaugh, one of our favorite cuts of the offseason during one of the many camps. The arms was very surpleased with Ronnie Stanley's effort at the camp. And Ronnie Stanley, talking to people who've been out there a lot, say he looks like a different guy this year. Obviously last year, a bit of a lost season for him as they were rotating tackles down the stretch. But Ronnie Stanley took a massive haircut this season and looks healthy at least early. And it begs us to ask the question because on the other side of the football, Marlon Humphrey is a guy that quite frankly has not been out there much during the offseason workouts, seen him on side fields periodically, seen him on social media a bunch. But who do you have more confidence in to have a bounce back season? Ronnie Stanley or Marlon Humphrey? Yeah, I thought it was an interesting question just because now we know that Stanley, he's going to be a free agent at the end of this year. He's playing for his future in the NFL. And then the other side, Marlon Humphrey, he is under contract through 2026. But if the Ravens wanted to move on from Humphrey for a pre-June one cut next year, Ken, they'd say $12.5 million of cap space, that's a significant amount of cap space. So both of those guys really playing for their futures. And we put out a poll on IA-105/7 the fan 2024, critical year for Ronnie Stanley and Marlon Humphrey. Stanley in a contract year, Ravens could move on from Humphrey after this season. Who do you have more confidence in having a bounce back year? Again, IA-105/7 the fan is how you vote on this poll, about 100 votes in, 66.7% Marlon, 33.3% Ronnie. Now, I'm, I voted Marlon and my reasoning is this, he has missed a lot of games in two out of the past three years. He's missed a lot of games. But if I'm looking for optimism in the games that he did play last year, these numbers courtesy of pro football reference, 46.7% completion percentage against him, 6.1 yards per target, just one touchdown given up, 64.6 pass a rating against him. He looked rough in that Steelers game, George Pickens beat him for a game winning touchdown there. He looked rough in the Rams game where he came back from injury where Matthew Stafford was throwing the ball all over the yard on Marlon Humphrey late in that football game. But the other games he looked sharp, really it's about the availability and I'd be lying to you, can if I said I wasn't a little concerned with the fact that he hasn't been out there during OTAs, but I have more confidence in Marlon. So when I first thought about this question, my first reaction is what's behind door number three, but then I realized I had to make the Sophie's choice and pick one. And I went Ronnie because quite frankly, I think he understands how dire his situation is. I don't think Marlon realizes where he is. And I don't think frankly, I don't think Marlon is an outside corner anymore. I think he's an inside corner. I don't see him on the field enough, quite frankly. And I just, I think that I think that Marlon has not faced the reality of his football mentality like Ronnie has. Now Ronnie's body could fail him, but Marlon's body's been failing him too. So like I'm going to go with Ronnie because Ronnie knows where his circumstance lies, that he knows he's on his last legs. I don't think Marlon realizes how close he is to the end. I don't disagree with that. I mean, Ronnie, it has been a different Ronnie Stanley this offseason and he has acknowledged all of that. He showed up to all OTAs in many camp. I would say this can in terms of who's more crucial to the Raven success this year. It slammed dunk is Ronnie because who's going to play left tackle if his body does break down with the Ravens having their favorite corner is just use the first round pick on a corner in Nate Wiggins. We talk a lot about Brandon Stevens and his breakout year last year. So you do have two capable corners, you think you hope with Wiggins, but they hope Wiggins at the very least replaces who's the Darby. Darby. Yes. Ronald Darby had a really good year for them. Their other starter corner, he was really, really good, but I mean, that's why I'm just so concerned about this offensive line and Ronnie Stanley is just a massive X factor on this offensive line. If he, if he can play anywhere close to what he was in 2022 when he was a damn good football player, that would be a huge development for this offense. That was the last time Marlin was good, honestly, like, and he seems like everybody loves Marlin. He's active on social media. He likes to engage with people though I, for me personally, if you're not out on the football field, I don't want to see you on social media all the time, but that's just me and everybody else. Whatever. I just, Marlin Humphrey to me, I like, he hasn't been a dominant corner since the, since the fruit punch year. Yeah. If you're going dominant, yeah, it's 2020 and that was the fruit punch year. He had eight force fumbles and then the rest of his career, the next highest was two. So I mean, that, that doesn't, he doesn't get his hands on the football a lot. I'm not saying he's bad, but like he hasn't been peak Marlin Humphrey in a long time. Yeah. I think that's fair. I mean, even 2022 when he was healthy, I mean, he made a pro bowl for what it's worth out of solid year, but I wouldn't say that that was the all pro Marlin Humphrey that we saw, you know, 2019 and 2020. I mean, both of these guys can. I mean, I guess she could say Stanley was, was really good solid in 2022, but he seems really good. He's still only played 11 games. Yeah. You know, that's neither one was good a year ago and a lot of it was injury related on both of them. But if I, but I feel like that Ronnie, he's, I think he's been more honest with himself about his future and he knows what's on the line this year. I don't think Marlin's there yet. Well, he better be. I mean, look, if, if he has another year, Ken, where he's banged up misses half of the season, they absolutely could move on from them. I mean, 12 and a half million dollars, you just drafted Nate Wiggins, but then you also drafted TJ Tampa in the fourth round, which a lot of people thought that that was a good value pick at that point in the draft. So I mean, if he could develop this year and then maybe he's ready for more of a role next year, I mean, they could absolutely move on from Marlin Humphrey. If the injuries continue to pile up, here's the reality. There's a strong likelihood that both guys are gone after this year. Sure. Yeah, their football futures depend on how they play this season though. Like could run now Ronnie Stanley could hang on for a while. We've seen guys like Jason Peters hang on and be like a guy. I don't see why. Yeah. Well, Ronnie doesn't seem to, I can't, I'm not but inside Ronnie's head. I don't think Ronnie loves football, like Jason Peters loves football. We shall say, but like quite frankly, there's Marlin love football, like to hang on if he's not making big money. I don't know. I think he likes a lot of, I think he has a lot of other interests. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I guess I would say Marlin, as he gets up there in age, he'll be 28 by the time the season kicks off. I mean, it's going to be more and more likely that they're going to kick him inside, whether that's Baltimore or elsewhere. Yeah, he's, the Ravens have essentially kicked him inside for the last couple of years and let's face it. They drafted a corner in the first round as you brought up. They drafted a corner in the fourth round that is one of those interesting guys that the mock drafts and the football rooms had a difference of opinion because I can remember going leading up into the draft. I saw a mock where TJ Tampa was in the first round. I saw a bunch of mocks in the second and third round. The Ravens get him in the fourth round. We'll see what they have there. They took Roger Rosengaard in the second round. He seems to be more of a right tackle. We shall see if he goes to the left and remember he was a right tackle for a left-handed quarter back when it was still blocking for the blind side. But I feel like the future is more solid at corner than it is at tackle. Sure. We all belong outside. We're drawn to nature, whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to or the succulents that adorn our homes. Nature makes all of our lives well better. Despite all this, we often go about our busy lives removed from it, but the outdoors is closer than we realize. With all trails, you can discover trails nearby and explore confidently. With offline maps and on-trail navigation, download the free app today and make the most of your summer with all trails. I'm Anna Garcia with True Crime News The Podcast. 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I was pleased. Very pleased. Ronnie's talented. He's working super hard. He's getting tested. These guys like Gaddafi and these guys are bringing it as you guys make, I think he wrote about that. They're bringing it, man. It's good to work together like that. We like to have our good guys, our starters work against our starters a lot because these drills, because it's not full contact and they get a chance to really kind of challenge each other's technique. John Harbaugh, one of our favorite cuts of the offseason during one of the many camps. The orbs was very surpleased with Ronnie Stanley's effort at the camp and Ronnie Stanley talking to people who have been out there a lot, say he looks like a different guy this year. Obviously, last year, a bit of a lost season for him as they were rotating tackles down the stretch. But Ronnie Stanley took a massive haircut this season and looks healthy at least early and it begs us to ask the question because on the other side of the football, Marlon Humphrey is a guy that, quite frankly, has not been out there much during the offseason workouts. Seen him on side fields periodically, seen him on social media a bunch. But who do you have more confidence in to have a bounce back season, Ronnie Stanley or Marlon Humphrey? Yeah. I thought it was an interesting question just because now we know that Stanley, he's going to be a free agent at the end of this year. He's playing for his future in the NFL. And then the other side, Marlon Humphrey, he is under contract through 2026, but if the Ravens wanted to move on from Humphrey for a pre-June one cut next year, Ken, they'd say $12.5 million of cap space. That's a significant amount of cap space. So both of those guys really playing for their futures. And we put out a poll on IA 1057 the fan, 2024, critical year for Ronnie Stanley and Marlon Humphrey. Stanley, in a contract year, Ravens could move on from Humphrey after this season. Who do you have more confidence in having a bounce back year? Again, IA 1057, the fan is how you vote on this poll, about a hundred votes in, 66.7% Marlon, 33.3% Ronnie. Now, I'm, I voted Marlon and my reasoning is this, he has missed a lot of games in two out of the past three years, he's missed a lot of games. But if I'm looking for optimism in the games that he did play last year, these numbers courtesy of pro football reference, 46.7% completion percentage against him, 6.1 yards per target, just one touchdown given up, 64.6 passer rating against him. He looked rough in that Steelers game, George Pickens beat him for a game winning touchdown there. He looked rough in the Rams game where he came back from injury where Matthew Stafford was throwing the ball all over the yard on Marlon Humphrey late in that football game. But the other games, he looked sharp. Really it's about the availability and I'd be lying to you, Ken. If I said I wasn't a little concerned with the fact that he hasn't been out there during OTAs, but I have more confidence in Marlon. So when I first thought about this question, my first reaction is what's behind door number three, but then I realized I had to make the Sophie's choice and pick one. And I went Ronnie because quite frankly, I think he understands how dire his situation is. I don't think Marlon realizes where he is. And I don't think frankly, I don't think Marlon is an outside corner anymore. I think he's an inside corner. I don't see him on the field enough, quite frankly. And I just, I think that I think that Marlon has not faced the reality of his football mentality like Ronnie has. Now Ronnie's body could fail him, but Marlon's body's been failing him too. So like I'm going to go with Ronnie because Ronnie knows where his circumstance lies, that he knows he's on his last legs. I don't think Marlon realizes how close he is to the end. I don't disagree with that. I mean, Ronnie, it has been a different Ronnie Stanley this offseason and he has acknowledged all of that. He showed up to all OTAs and mini camp. I would say this can in terms of who's more crucial to the Raven success this year, it slam dunk is Ronnie Stanley because who's going to play left tackle if his body does break down what the Ravens have in their favorite corner is just use the first round pick on a corner in Nate Wiggins. We talk a lot about Brandon Stevens and his breakout year last year. So you do have two capable corners, you think, you hope with Wiggins, but they hope Wiggins at the very least replaces who the Darby Darby yes Ronald Darby had a really good year for them. Basically was their other starter corner like just he was really, really good. But I mean, that's why I'm just so concerned about this offensive line and Ronnie Stanley's just the massive X factor on this offensive line. Like, if he can play anywhere close to what he was in 2022 when he was a damn good football player, that would be a huge development for this offense. When was the last time Marlon was good, honestly, like he's a seems like everybody loves Marlon. He's active on social media. He likes to engage with people though I for me personally, if you're not out on the football field, I don't want to see you on social media all the time, but that's just me and everybody else did whatever. I just Marlon Humphrey to me, I like he hasn't been a dominant corner since the since the fruit punch year. Yeah, if you're going dominant, yeah, it's 2020 and that was the fruit punch year. He had eight force fumbles and then the rest of his career, the next highest was two. So, I mean, that doesn't he doesn't get his hands on the football a lot. I'm not saying he's bad, but like he hasn't been peak Marlon Humphrey in a long time. Yeah, I think that's fair. I mean, even 2022 when he was healthy, I mean, he made a pro bowl for what it's worth at a solid year. But I wouldn't say that that was the all pro Marlon Humphrey that we saw, you know, 2019 and 2020, I mean, both of these guys can. I mean, I guess she could say Stanley was was really good solid in 2022, but he's still really good. He's still only played 11 games, you know, that's neither one was good a year ago and a lot of it was injury related on both of them. But if I, but I feel like that Ronnie, he's, I think he's been more honest with himself about his future and he knows what's on the line this year. I don't think Marlon's there yet. Well, he better be. I mean, look, if, if he has another year, Ken, where he's banged up misses half of the season, they absolutely could move on from them. I mean, $12 and a half million, you just drafted Nate Wiggins. But then you also drafted TJ Tampa in the fourth round, which a lot of people thought that that was a good value pick at that point in the draft. So, I mean, if he could develop this year and then maybe he's ready for more of a role next year, I mean, they could absolutely move on from Marlon Humphrey if the injuries continue to pile up. Here's the reality. There's a strong likelihood that both guys are going after this year. Sure. Strong likely a bit. Their football futures depend on how they play this season though. Like could run now, Ronnie Stanley could hang on for a while. We've seen guys like Jason Peters hang on and be like a guy. I don't see. Yeah, well, Ronnie doesn't seem to, I can't, I'm not been inside Ronnie's head. I don't think Ronnie loves football like Jason Peters loves football. We shall say, but like quite frankly, there's Marlon love football to hang on if he's not making big money. Uh, I don't know is, I, I think he likes a lot of the, I think he has a lot of other interests. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Um, I guess I would say Marlon, as he gets up there in age, he'll be 28, um, by the time the season kicks off, I mean, it's going to be more and more likely that they're going to kick him inside, whether that's Baltimore or elsewhere. Yeah. He's, the Ravens have essentially kicked him inside for the last couple of years and, and let's face it, they drafted a corner in the first round as you brought up. They drafted a corner in the fourth round that is one of those interesting guys that the mock drafts and the football rooms had a difference of opinion because I can remember going leading up into the draft. I saw a mock where TJ Tampa was in the first round, I saw a bunch of mocks in the second and third round. The Ravens get him in the fourth round. We'll see what they have there. They took Roger Rosengaard in the second round. He seems to be more of a right tackle. We shall see if he goes to the left. And remember he was a right tackle for a left handed quarterback, which was still blocking for the blind side, but I feel like the future is more solid at corner than it is a tackle. Sure. Yeah, I mean, there's, there's more capable guys there and, and Ken, we, we know that Eric Takasta loves to try to get guys to sign contract extensions at around this time leading up until week one. I mean, if Brandon Stevens signs a contract extension, is the writing on the wall at that point for Marlon? I would love to sign Brandon Stevens to a contract extension. Yeah. That would be. Yeah. I'm curious. Is David Mulletta the, the, that's a DeShawn Watson's agent. So he does like to get big money. We shall see. But yeah, I, I would love, I would love to see the, the Ravens, again, extension done with Brandon Stevens. Yeah. And then at that point you have a lot of certainty with the cornerback position is, is you mentioned with the two draft picks and I mean, heck, even Mullett signed through 2025 and there, I mean, it's now or never for a Jalen armor Davis or Pepe. I don't know. I mean, I'm not holding my breath for either. I think the odds are great is that neither one is on the roster when we get to September. I would say definitively one of them is not. No, I think, I think Pepe Williams has a five percent chance. Well, you were saying when you were out at mini camp, right? Well, yeah, and Pepe's not really an outside guy where his armored Davis is like, I, and Pepe, if memory serves, he got pulled off the field week 18 against Pittsburgh for struggling on special teams. I don't think he has a role here, but that's just me. Once again, go to IE one of five, seven, the fan to vote who you got having a bounce back year. Marlin or Ronnie, the pole will be up for 24 hours, but coming up next, it's T bone time TMI TIM. What you got? Can you're the one who predicted by the time Jason's back, no more razor, Ramon. So that likely means Kobe Mayo, maybe possibly debuting next week during the homestand. If Mayo is brought up, how are they going to be able to get him frequent playtime day in and day out? In Jordan Westbrook, adjust the second base, can Kobe Mayo and has to incur stat exist? Long term together here, we'll get into it next on Inside Access. It's T bone time TMI with TIM and the floor is yours. It's time for Kobe Mayo. It is time for Kobe Mayo in the 15 games since getting bumped back up to triple A as he was rehabbing with the iron birds, 15 games, 345 batting average, 1100 OPS. He has five home runs, 17 RBIs, 10 walks. He had three hits yesterday and drove in another run and he's beyond due for this. I mean, on the season, 61 games, OPS over a thousand, his splits versus righties and lefties. 30 identical OPS, nearly 1100 against lefties, 933. And looking ahead to this upcoming week, Kim, you got three games against the Cubs. You have three games against the Yankees and how things are currently lining up. The O's are set to face four lefties that week. Shotsa Imanaga, Justin Steele, Nestor Cortez, Carlos Rodone, set to pitch. So even more so making sense for next week to be the time to bring up Kobe Mayo. Well, there's, there's other layers to this as well, and that's that Ramon, Arias and Jorge Mateo weren't hitting. Like Jorge Mateo, I looked last night, he's 11 for his last 58. He's only stolen two bases in that time because you can't steal first base. He also didn't look like he was running hard yesterday on the double play ball later. Like it's something bothering him that that looked like a play should be able to beat that out. He did not again, though, he's not hitting and his defense at second base is fine, but it's not stellar. You move Westbrook over to second, you put Ramon, excuse me, you put Mayo with that. And Ramon, he is super utility. Yeah. Well, where are you? Yeah. Yeah. Ramon is 14 for his last 64. So he ain't hitting either. Yeah. It's just time. And if there's one aspect that maybe makes you a little nervous is Jordan Westbrook splits in terms of defense at third base and second base are vastly different. He's one of the best third basements, one of the worst second bases, five outs above average at third, negative five outs above average. So that'd be below average camp at second base. So giving mayo also played first base the other day. Yes. Yeah. Kind of brings up the Ryan Mount Castle of it all too, where now, of course, he's back in the lineup and does something happen there is a question by the end of the month. Well, yeah, I brought up last week about the whole Ryan Mount Castle part of this whole thing. And could he possibly could the world get creative and he gets dealt in one of these deadline deals. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but I don't, but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility because he has value and he's got some control for somebody else. And it's a buy buy kind of trade. Like they, the other team gets something of value as well. Like I think Kobe Mayo eventually slots as a first baseman and then Jackson holiday goes to second and Kobe and, and Jordan Westbrook's a third. Yeah. That's definitely how I see it long term, but I guess with two guys for an organism, for an organization that loves positional versatility, you look at Kobe Mayo, you look at Heston curse dad, I get it. It's a righty and a lefty, but both those guys, you know, what's the knock? Oh, can, can they hold their own defensively at the next level? Do you see both of them here long term? I think they could be because one's already and one's a lefty. Like I, I don't know about multiple lefties being here long term. I, I do think there's a chance Heston curse that is the guy traded at the deadline. I think so. When they make that, that, and I do think they're going to make it, I'll be, I'll be stunned and you'll hear it. If they don't make a big buy trade, I think they, after what happened last year, they have to make a big buy trade. And I think it's one of those one stop shop kind of trades where you get multiple guys from, say, the White Sox, for example, give me an Eric Fetty, a Michael Copac and a Tommy fam and, and Heston curse dad and something else comes back this way that, and I'm just being hypothetical here, but I think it's going to be that kind of thing. And you're going to trade something of substance to go back. But hypothetically, could you, remember, and we'll get into this coming up a little later about Anthony Santander, but like he's, he's, he's up after this year. If they don't bring him back, you've got a hole in right field. Could Heston curse that be the right fielder? Yeah, I guess he's not as good defensively as Santander, who all of a sudden has got, has gotten back to his, his COVID year defensive metrics. But yet I think it's possible because once the left, you know, ones are right. Yeah, it's possible. I guess I've just always thought that one of them would get moved. One of them would end up staying long term. I think it's possible though that they're both here. I talked to someone involved in baseball who thinks Bassio is going to be the guy that gets traded. Like his, he, he argues, look, his, his value is never going to be higher and he's the one that I'm most fascinated about because up until probably two, three weeks ago, I would have agreed with you. But I mean, we just continue to document Adley and how much he's deaching and how much better of a hitter he is when he deaches. I, I just wonder if Michael Ayas, you know, looking long term, having Bassio there and Adley getting older at that point, is he going to continue to DH more? That's my only caveat with that. And that, that's only been over the past couple of weeks where I, I just wonder if he is the untouched here. Here's an idea for you. Maybe the Orioles could make a trade with the White Sox where, okay, throw copek out, crochet and fatty, put crochet in the bullpen when you get him. And there's been, I was reading a piece that Jim Bowden put out. He said, a few executives he talked, you said, if I acquire crochet, I'm putting in the bullpen immediately. And then going to try to build him back up and at the end of September to get him ready for the postseason. But in the meantime, you've got Fettie in your rotation. You got crochet in your bullpen. Oh, and get Tommy Fam as well as the right handed hitter in the outfield. I love that. I mean, it's dream and big. Yeah, I would love to know the hypothetical rabbit hole. Absolutely. And crochets, just the guy for me where I'm so torn about because obviously the innings are an issue, but you do love the fact that you have the two additional years of control with him. And we know how many, how big of a question mark this starting rotation is next year. So he can kind of already start that checklist of the off season and you got two guys right there. Yes. Exactly. It's a Friday. And what's a Friday without getting some best bets. Our friend Ariel Epstein and bell weight, Ben's got his best bets. That's next here on the fan. It's T bone time TMI with TIM and the floor is yours. It's time for Kobe male. It is time for Kobe male in the 15 games since getting bumped back up to triple A as he was rehabbing with the iron birds, 15 games, 345 batting average, 1100 OPS. He has five home runs, 17 RBIs, 10 walks. He had three hits yesterday and drove in another run and he's beyond due for this. I mean, on the season 61 games, OPS over a thousand, his splits versus righties and lefties. The identical OPS, nearly 1100 against lefties, 933. And looking ahead to this upcoming week, Kim, you got three games against the Cubs. You have three games against the Yankees and how things are currently lining up. The Oz are set to face four lefties that week, Shotsa, Imanaga, Justin Steele, Nestor Cortez, Carlos Rodone set to pitch. So even more so making sense for next week to be the time to bring up Kobe male. Well, there's, there's other layers to this as well. And that's that Ramon, Arias and Horre Mateo weren't hitting. Like Horre Mateo. I looked last night. He's 11 for his last 58. He's only stolen two bases in that time because you can't steal first base. He also didn't look like he was running hard yesterday on the double play ball later. Like it's something bothering him that. That looked like a place. You've been able to beat that out. He did not again, though he's not hitting and his defense at second base is fine, but it's not stellar. You move Westbrook over to second. You put remote. Excuse me. But third, and Ramon, he is super utility. Yeah. Well, Horre super, too. Ramon's gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ramon is 14 for his last 64. So he ain't hitting either. Yeah, it's just time. And if there's one aspect that maybe makes you a little nervous is Jordan Westbrook splits in terms of defense at third base and second base are vastly different. He's one of the best third basements, one of the worst second basins. Five outs above average at third, negative five outs above average. So that'd be below average, Ken, at second base. So giving male also played first base the other day. Yes. And that's where it kind of kind of brings up the Ryan Mount Castle of it all, too, where now, of course, he's back in the lineup and does something happen there is a question by the end of the month. Well, yeah, I brought up last week about the whole Ryan Mount Castle part of this whole thing. And could he possibly could the world's get creative and he gets dealt in one of these deadline deals. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but I don't, but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility because he has value and he's got some control for somebody else. And it's a buy buy kind of trade. Like they, the other team gets something of value as well. Like, I think Kobe Mayo eventually slots as a first baseman and then Jackson holiday goes to second and Kobe and and Jordan Westbrook's a third. Yeah. That's definitely how I see it long term. But I guess with two guys for an organization for an organization that loves positional versatility, you look at Kobe Mayo, you look at Heston curse that I get it. It's a righty and a lefty, but both those guys, you know, what's the knock? Oh, can, can they hold their own defensively at the next level? Do you see both of them here long term? I think they could be because one's already and one's a lefty. Like I, I, I don't know about multiple lefties being here long term. I, I do think there's a chance Heston curse that is the guy traded at the deadline. I think so. When they make that, that, and I do think they're going to make it, I'll be, I'll be stunned and you'll hear it. If they don't make a big buy trade, I think they, after what happened last year, they have to make a big buy trade. And I think it's one of those one stop shop kind of trades where you get multiple guys from, say, the white socks, for example, give me an Eric Fettie, a Michael Copac and a Tommy fam and, and Heston cursed that and something else comes back this way that. And I'm just being hypothetical here, but I think it's going to be that kind of thing. And you're going to trade something of substance to go back, but hypothetically, could you at, remember, and we'll get into this coming up a little later about Anthony Santander. But like he's, he's, he's up after this year. If they don't bring him back, you've got a hole in right field. Could Heston cursed that be the right fielder? Yeah, I guess he's not as good defensively as Santander who all of a sudden has got, has gotten back to his, his COVID year defensive metrics. But yet I think it's possible because once the left, the ones are right. Yeah, it's possible. I guess I've just always thought that one of them would get moved. One of them would end up staying long term. I think it's possible though that they're both here. I talked to someone involved in baseball who thinks Bassio is going to be the guy that gets traded. Like his, he, he argues, look, his value is never going to be higher and he's the one that I'm most fascinated about because up until probably two, three weeks ago, I would have agreed with you. But I mean, we just continued to document Adley and how much he's deaching and how much better of a hitter he is when he deaches. I, I just wonder if Mike Elias, you know, looking long term, having Bassio there and Adley getting older at that point, is he going to continue to DH more? That's my only caveat with that. And that that's only been over the past couple of weeks where I, I just wonder if he is the untouched here. Here, here's an idea for you. Maybe the Orioles could make a trade with the White Sox where, okay, throw Copec out, get crochet and Fetty, put crochet in the bullpen when you get him. And there's been, I was reading a piece that Jim Bowden put out. He said, a few executives he talked, you said, if I acquire crochet, I'm putting in the bullpen immediately. And then going to try to build him back up and at the end of September to get him ready for the postseason. But in the meantime, you've got Fetty in your rotation. You got crochet in your bullpen. Oh, and get Tommy Fam as well as the right handed hitter in the outfield. I love that. I mean, it's dream and big. Yeah, I would love to know the hypothetical rabbit hole. Absolutely. And crochets, just the guy for me where I'm so torn about because obviously the innings are an issue, but you do love the fact that you have the two additional years of control with him. And we know how many, how big of a question mark this starting rotation is next year. So he can kind of already start that checklist of the off season and you got two guys right there. Yes. Exactly. It's a Friday. And what's a Friday without getting some best bets? Our friend Ariel Epstein and Belway Ben's got his best bets. That's next year on the fan trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again with nor sides and bully on as you're not so secret ingredient. You can skip the drive through and do dinner at home, nor taste combos provide a menu of delicious, affordable and well balanced meals that you can prepare in 30 minutes or less. Visit nor.com to get quick and easy recipe ideas for your home cooked weeknight dinners. It's not fast food, but it's so good. I'm Anna Garcia with true crime news, the podcast, every crime tells a story. Every story demands justice. True crime news, the podcast covers breaking crimes, investigating high profile and under the radar cases. 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