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Devan Fink

@DevanFink

Manager, Baseball Operations at the Baltimore Orioles

Joined December 2012
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Can’t spell October without O
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See you in the pO'stseason.
Clinched | 2024 Postseason | Be The Noise The graphic features images of Orioles players and manager Brandon Hyde. They appear in rows, from top left to bottom right: Keegan Akin, Gregory Soto, Ryan Mountcastle, James McCann, Cade Povich, Ramón Urías, Bryan Baker Danny Coulombe, Zach Eflin, Corbin Burnes, Gunnar Henderson, Dean Kremer, Cedric Mullins, Ryan O’Hearn Jordan Westburg, Jackson Holliday, Heston Kjerstad, Brandon Hyde, Cionel Pérez, Seranthony Domínguez, Austin Slater, Emmanuel Rivera Colton Cowser, Jacob Webb, Adley Rutschman, Anthony Santander, Yennier Cano, Albert Suárez, Matt Bowman They are all wearing Orioles gear.

ALT Clinched | 2024 Postseason | Be The Noise The graphic features images of Orioles players and manager Brandon Hyde. They appear in rows, from top left to bottom right: Keegan Akin, Gregory Soto, Ryan Mountcastle, James McCann, Cade Povich, Ramón Urías, Bryan Baker Danny Coulombe, Zach Eflin, Corbin Burnes, Gunnar Henderson, Dean Kremer, Cedric Mullins, Ryan O’Hearn Jordan Westburg, Jackson Holliday, Heston Kjerstad, Brandon Hyde, Cionel Pérez, Seranthony Domínguez, Austin Slater, Emmanuel Rivera Colton Cowser, Jacob Webb, Adley Rutschman, Anthony Santander, Yennier Cano, Albert Suárez, Matt Bowman They are all wearing Orioles gear.

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@Orioles29 Sep 2023
Beasts of the East.
AL East Division Champions The graphic features cutouts of 30 Orioles players, along with Orioles manager Brandon Hyde, each wearing a white Orioles jersey with Orange script text and numbers. The individuals are displayed in a cluster, and organized in rows as follows: Félix Bautista | Gunnar Henderson | Adley Rutschman Austin Hays | Cedric Mullins | Kyle Bradish | Ryan Mountcastle Anthony Santander | Kyle Gibson | Brandon Hyde | Dean Kremer | Jorge Mateo DL Hall | Danny Coulombe | Cionel Perez | Tyler Wells | Jacob Webb | Ryan McKenna Aaron Hicks | James McCann | Ryan O’Hearn | Yennier Cano | Ramón Urías | Grayson Rodriguez | Adam Frazier John Means | Shintaro Fujinami | Heston Kjerstad | Jordan Westburg | Jorge López | Jack Flaherty MLB Postseason 2023 | Soak It In

ALT AL East Division Champions The graphic features cutouts of 30 Orioles players, along with Orioles manager Brandon Hyde, each wearing a white Orioles jersey with Orange script text and numbers. The individuals are displayed in a cluster, and organized in rows as follows: Félix Bautista | Gunnar Henderson | Adley Rutschman Austin Hays | Cedric Mullins | Kyle Bradish | Ryan Mountcastle Anthony Santander | Kyle Gibson | Brandon Hyde | Dean Kremer | Jorge Mateo DL Hall | Danny Coulombe | Cionel Perez | Tyler Wells | Jacob Webb | Ryan McKenna Aaron Hicks | James McCann | Ryan O’Hearn | Yennier Cano | Ramón Urías | Grayson Rodriguez | Adam Frazier John Means | Shintaro Fujinami | Heston Kjerstad | Jordan Westburg | Jorge López | Jack Flaherty MLB Postseason 2023 | Soak It In

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Life update: Just graduated from Dartmouth!
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Excited to announce that I have accepted a job with the Baltimore Orioles as their Coordinator of Baseball Operations! Thank you all for your support over the last 10 years. This is truly my childhood dream coming true. Let’s go O’s!
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Go vote today!
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Not that it matters, but I think we need to better distinguish between "opt-outs" and "player options." In my view, a player opts out of a deal if there is more than one year left on it, but he declines a player option if there is just one season to be decided.
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After all of the wonderful playoff format discourse, let's not forget that a 100-win team did end up winning the World Series
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Truly a great 2022 season. Thanks to all for following along this year. Always enjoy interacting with everyone on here, *especially* if Twitter's demise is more-or-less imminent.
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Dusty has to retire, right?
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I'm not sure that this search was totally comprehensive, but it appears that Oswaldo Cabrera on 10/4/22 was the last to successfully bunt with 3 infielders on one side of second base. Video: baseballsavant.mlb.com/sport…
Oswaldo Cabrera singles on a bunt ground ball to third baseman Josh Jung. Giancarlo Stanton to 2nd....

Oswaldo Cabrera singles on a bunt ground ball to third baseman Josh Jung. Giancarlo Stanton to 2nd....

Oswaldo Cabrera singles on a bunt ground ball to third baseman Josh Jung. Giancarlo Stanton to 2nd. | Baseball Savant Videos

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"Kyle Schwarber" is now the answer to what I'm sure will be a great trivia question one day: "Who was the last batter in MLB history to try to bunt against the shift?"
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I will say that one thing that will make the Astros consistently great is their ability to develop top-end talent. They let Carlos Correa walk in FA and replaced him with almost virtually the exact same production (albeit with a different shape) in Jeremy Peña. That's enormous.
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Correa and Peña each played 136 games in 2022. Correa had 590 PAs to Peña's 558. Correa was the better hitter (140 wRC+ vs. 102), but Peña's fielding made up for it (7 OAA vs. -3). In sum, Correa was only worth one more win than the rookie Peña (4.4 fWAR vs. 3.4).
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If the 2022 baseball season does end tonight, this will be the last game without a pitch clock and with infield shifts that include 3+ fielders on either side of second base. Pretty wild to think about.
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Using FanGraphs + ZiPS win probability, Alvarez's home run increased the Astros' probability of winning the World Series from ~80% to ~94%. Just a massive swing, even for the already-heavy favorites.
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The signature Martín Maldonado move. Wrote about this a year ago: blogs.fangraphs.com/martin-m…
Martín Maldonado Crowds the Plate

Martín Maldonado Crowds the Plate

Breaking down my favorite moment — and a pivotal play — from Game 5.

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The best case for an automated strike zone, I think, is that — at minimum — at least it is consistent.
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It didn't matter much when everyone was hitting, but the last couple of games have exposed the Phillies' lineup construction a bit, I think. Hoskins shouldn't be hitting second, and Harper shouldn't be hitting lower than third.
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I get that Thomson doesn't want to change things now, which is fine, but still.
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Zack Wheeler threw five four-seam fastballs in the first inning; all of them were at least 98.0 mph. In the postseason into tonight, only 40 of 184 of his four-seam fastballs had been at least 98.0 mph. Though, in the first inning, he was at 98.0+ for 31-of-45 four-seamers.
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