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PA GE GREATEST RAVENS UNDRAFTED FREE AGENTS 257 9.19 I EVOL UT In today’s NFL, ONthe jump from Year OF A One to Year Two is crucial for a QuarterbackQuarterback quarterback and the franchise. What will 2019 bring for Lamar Jackson and the Ravens? BY BILL ORDINE | PAGE 16 Kenya Allen/PressBox Kenya VISIT BUYATOYOTA.COM FOR GREAT DEALS! buyatoyota.com Issue 257 • September 2019 Epic - table of contents - Events COVER STORY at Evolution Of A Quarterback ..................................16 IN OUR 4,000 SEAT EVENT CENTER In today’s NFL, the jump from Year One to Year Two is crucial for a quarterback and the franchise. What will 2019 bring for Lamar Jackson and the Ravens? welcome to By Bill Ordine FEATURE STORIES Sports Business w/ Baltimore Business Journal...... 08 Ravens Report w/ Bo Smolka.................................... 13 Orioles Report w/ Todd Karpovich .........................20 Varsity Report w/ Jeff Seidel................................... 31 GRAND FUNK RAILROAD SECTIONS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 Front Row ................................................................06 College ....................................................................24 COLUMNS > One Fan’s Opinion .................................................05 Stan “The Fan” Charles > Inside The Numbers............................................... 21 MICHAEL BOLTON Matt Kremnitzer GLADYS KNIGHT THE SYMPHONY SESSIONS > Upon Further Review ............................................23 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Jim Henneman > The Reality Check ................................................37 Glenn Clark SOLD OUT VOICES Photo Of The Month ...............................................04 Live! at your fingertips 10 Questions With …................................................ 10 Community Beat ......................................................35 DOWNLOAD My Live! 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AVEN COVERAGE S AVEN COVERAGE S FOLLOW THE RAVENS ALL SEASON LONG AT PRESSBOXONLINE.COM/RAVENS FOLLOW THE RAVENS ALL SEASON LONG AT PRESSBOXONLINE.COM/RAVENS 4 | SEPTEMBER 2019 | | PRESSBOXSPORTS | @PRESSBOXONLINE ONE FAN’S OPINION a bat that can play a bit in the big leagues, Sifting Through The Good but Sisco will end 2019 as much suspect as prospect. His clock is ticking. From Orioles’ 2019 Season INFIELDERS 3600 Clipper Mill Road - Suite 300 - Stan “The Fan” Charles Aaron Brooks and Ty Blach have looked like The biggest complications are first base Baltimore, MD 21211 they could be future contributors. But while and shortstop. I can’t see either Chris Davis Phone: (410) 366-7272 they’ll be welcome to compete next spring in or Richie Martin back on this roster to start he Orioles will finish the - PressBoxOnline.com - Sarasota, Fla., the bar, even during this re- the 2020 season. Martin will be freed from the 2019 season, the first build, needs to be significantly higher. Rule 5 restrictions. He should go down to Tri- chapter of the club’s to- Founder And Publisher I see no starting pitchers ready to make ple-A and develop. It might even be prudent tal rebuild under general the jump from Triple-A or Double-A. They all for him to go down to Double-A Bowie for 4-6 Stan Charles T manager Mike Elias, in weeks to get him off to a really big start before need more development. the cellar of the American promoting him to Norfolk. His glove plays; Vice President, Sales and Marketing League East. RELIEF PITCHERS the questions are all about offense. John Coulson While attendance has The club owes Chris Davis a ton of mon- Considering what the Atlanta Braves gave dramatically declined, the Orioles know fans ey with three long seasons remaining on his Vice President of digital Services up for 33-year-old reliever Chris Martin (they will return to Camden Yards if the end result contract. That’s now a sunk cost. I hate to be dealt former first-round pick Kolby Allard Jennifer Nelson of this painful era of Orioles baseball is a sus- cold-blooded about it, but he is blocking the to the Texas Rangers), the unluckiest thing tainable, contending team that can compete path of the player who should be the club’s Managing Editor to happen to the Orioles this year was how year in and year out for an 8-10 year cycle. everyday first baseman: Trey Mancini. poorly Mychal Givens started the season. A Luke Jackson On the field, there have been some nice Jonathan Villar is an impact player, and if 22-year-old lefty like Allard would have been a pickups by the new management team. The he comes back, he probably should be the ev- manager of digital programming perfect fit in orange and black. fact that the minor-league cupboard wasn’t eryday shortstop. He’ll cost $7 million or more The club will hope they can eventually get Glenn Clark barren was a huge jumpstart. Better drafting in his final year of arbitration. I think the club true value for Givens. Otherwise, he should and development and an entry into the inter- could try to package him and Givens to pick Account executives be back next season as part of a ’pen that national scouting game got the organization up a solid prospect, perhaps along with a 17- could quickly go from very bad to pretty Julie Sawyer Dede Glassband off to a nice start in Year One of the rebuild. or 18-year-old international lottery ticket. darned good. Hanser Alberto looks like the everyday Robyn Riter STARTING PITCHERS Dillon Tate and Hunter Harvey are two second baseman to me. Rio Ruiz had trouble senior editorial adviser big reasons for optimism in this area. Both John Means and Dylan Bundy should producing hard contact early on, but he’s hit be back at or near the top of the rotation. were more or less failed minor-league starters for more power since a brief stint in the mi- Bill Ordine with very good stuff. Miscast or not, they now Means’ return to form in mid-August was nors. Since I see nobody else ready to take Senior Graphic Designer vitally important. He is a piece. Bundy has seem like serious pieces in the rebuild of the over at third base, Ruiz will probably be back lost a lot of the luster from when he was the bullpen. for another season. Kimberly Shilling No. 4 overall pick of the 2011 MLB Draft. Tanner Scott and Miguel Castro both Cover Designer Tommy John surgery and other injuries have electric arms, and since those don’t grow DESIGNATED HITTER on trees, they should be around. Paul Fry and Molly Blosse have robbed him of the high-octane stuff he In a perfect world, the club could move Richard Bleier have a chance to come back showed as an amateur. Renato Nunez from DH to third base, but Office Manager and contribute as well. Alex Cobb is still under contract for two the world isn’t perfect and what really plays is Leah Lancaster more seasons, and the club simply has to CATCHERS Nunez’s bat. He’ll see some occasional time at keep its fingers crossed that he can be- first base and third base again to get another Staff Photographer come a part of this rebuild by being Neither Pedro Severino nor Chance bat in the lineup. The DH spot could also be Kenya Allen healthy enough to chip in and recali- Sisco will ever compete for a Gold Glove where Ryan Mountcastle, who spent 2019 in brate his trade value. Award, but the club probably can’t do too Norfolk, gets many of his first major-league Videographer At times, Asher Wojciechowski, much better now. Severino looks like he has at-bats come June 2020. Matt Stovall OUTFIELDERS Interns Anthony Santander may go down as the Brett Blum Jalon Dixon best move of Dan Duquette’s tenure. But be- fore we anoint Santander a solid 12-year con- Alex Murphy tributor, we need to see him duplicate his 2019 numbers and prove he can be counted on. But he sure looks good. He’s probably better in left, but I’d pencil him into right field. Center field is a problem. They can’t play Stevie Wilkerson more than a handful of games out there. While he is a good athlete, he just doesn’t understand the nuances the posi- > Scott Rifkin tion calls for. Sadly, Cedric Mullins was badly > Stan Charles damaged by his early-season struggles and now is a total suspect. This is one spot I could ard of > John Coulson Bo see the Orioles trying to pick up a proven de- Directors > Andrew Levine fender in free agency. Since 2020 is going to be a second season PressBox is published monthly by Word Smith Media Ve ntures, LLC, of taking inventory and waiting for the young 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 300, Baltimore, Maryland 21211 (410-366-7272). Copyright 2019 by Word Smith Media Ve ntures, LLC. pitching cavalry to arrive, I think D.J. Stewart All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced probably deserves another shot. Mountcas- without the expressed written consent of the publisher. tle will get his feet wet as a corner outfielder PressBox is a free publication distributed every month on the 15 th in when his bat fully says it is R-E-A-D-Y for the the Baltimore metropolitan area.