Hey Pete, also keep in mind the 2 plus innings Sherrill pitched in the All-Star game. Isn't that his longest outing of the season? He did pitch very well in that appearance, but that could also be contributing to his present status.

OK this is kind of off the subject, but this is burning me up. It's about the weeding out process that will hopefully take place this season with the Ravens. I think we are kidding ourselves if we think this season is going to be about anything other that the coach finding out who he wants to have in the Foxhole with him. At least I hope that Coach Harbaugh is the coach that will do this. I hope he is seeing a lazy wanna be star runningback who doesn't participate in the off season training program, waiting until he is 3/4 of the way through training camp before he gets his knee scoped. I hope he sees a very selfish Hybrid (LB/DE) not participating in anything because he is only getting 8 million dollars. Poor baby ! He is lucky to be getting 3 million with the kind of season he had last year. An 8 million dollar player should be able to make an impact whether Trevor Pryce is playing or not! I know, I know, it's the system. Bull ! It is all about him, not the team. Coach is trying to instill, and get everyone to buy into the team first concept. Well, it looks like he has a few shoplifters on the roster. The only thing some of these guys are buying is merchandise off QVC, as they sit on their butts while everyone else is outside in the 90 degree heat trying to make the team. Lord, I hope Coach Harbaugh is a good gardener, because it is time to break out the Weed Be Gone.

Or it could be his hat. I was reading a study in the Harvard Medical Journal indicating that wearing a baseball cap with little or no bend in the bill for more than 45 innings in a season can result in acute shoulder and/or neck stiffness. But it's just a theory.

Sherrill's recent struggles could be due to a number of factors but the main cause seems to be lack of command. He hasn't had too many 1-2-3 innings all year and this is catching up to him.
Yes, he's pitched more than before but if gets it over more, the ptich count goes down at least. If he's hurting, by all means, shut him down for awhile. What is disturbing is the number of sore armed Oriole pitchers throughout the organization. What can be done? Do we go back to the old days with lots of throwing in the off-season to strengthen the arms or do we need to hire some medical experts to look at each guy's Xrays etc.? There must be some way to minimize the damage because it's hard to put together any semblance of a pitching staff with all the injuries.

Three days off and a cortisone shot seemed to work wonders for Mora. Maybe that will work for Sherrill also.

Good chance for JJ to try to close, and maybe for that long awaited Mickolio callup.

Sherrill deserves some rest. I look forward to him being effective next year when we need him, hopefully, to help us stay in a pennant race.

TerryP -

I don't think we are the only team with a fair amount of significant pitching injuries, if you look around both leagues, there seem to be more arm issues. Might have something to do, with pitchers trying to get more movement on their pitches. I'm not professing to be an expert, but it sure seems more prevalent than in the 60's or 70's, when a pitcher basically threw 3 pitches (fastball, curve, & change up). The good news is that injuries that use to be career ending, don't necessarily end up being that. There are exceptions of course, and it's a shame Lowen ended up being one.

Yep. old Dave even gets him up to "get some work in" if he goes a few days without pitching. Dave is good at many things but not in managing a staff. Period. After we get Tex and a couple of pitchers emerge its time to go get a real heavy hitting mgr. Bring back Davy when a few more pieces of the puzzle are in place

GOOD GOD GUYS HE HAS BEEN GREAT. WHAT A PEN WE MAY HAVE BACK NEXT YEAR WHEN RAY COMES BACK...JUST GET US SOME STARTERS....

Yup. Should have traded him.

ED - I just have to ask this. Why all caps? Is it intentional? Is your caps lock stuck? You know, a new keyboard can be had for 30 bucks or less. Heck, I have several extras so I'd be happy to give you one for free if you need one.

Are you using some kind of interface that only has capital letters, like maybe a TTY machine at the public library? Is it to make the letters bigger so they are easier to read? You know, you can make adjustments to the screen display to make things appear larger. My nearly legally blind mother has her screen settings so that I could read it from the next room - and I'm no eagle-eyed youngster myself.

I can't for the life of me fathom why someone would choose to write in all caps. I know you are not the only one who does that, but you happen to be the one to prompt me to ask the question. It's just as annoying as the people who don't bother with the niceties of captilization and punctuation in posts of more than two sentences, and we have enough of them around here also. Your ideas are fine, but presenting them in all capital letters doesn't help get your point across, but is actually a detriment. Can you help me at least understand WHY?

Ted. I think it's unfair to blame the dismal pitching this year on Trembley. It's pretty hard to manage a pitching staff when your starters can't get out of the 3rd inning and half the pitchers are on the DL.
His hands are tied and he must feel like he's playing Russian roulette wheh he makes the inevitable 5 calls per game to the 'pen.
It's also hard when only a handful of our staff can throw strikes on a consistent basis and while it's easy to 2nd guess some choices, what would you do differently?
Like Earl Weaver's book title-"I manage good but boy did they play bad!"

Who is the guy posting about football on a baseball topic? That league moved my boyhood team which was unforgiveable and now they schedule games whenever they feel like it and the result is their fans turn into pigs as well.

I'll hazard an guess and say he's a rabis Washington CAPITALS fan....

I'll hazard a guess and say he's a rabid Washington CAPITALS fan...