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Dylan Bundy and the Devil (In the Details/Date With the)

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Baltimore Orioles, Dylan Bundy, News And Notes on Apr 24, 2013

Baltimore Orioles v Boston Red Sox

Dylan Bundy gets a lot of play here at Getting Blanked. Mostly because of his sky-high ceiling and rocket-to-the-moon path to the big leagues in 2012. There is a good chance Dylan Bundy becomes one of the best pitchers in baseball within the next few years.

He is, however, a pitcher. Which means there’s an equally good chance he becomes nothing. Or, worse yet, a reliever. The road to pitching stardom is riddled with pot holes and landmines that just surviving as a pitcher until age 30 is nothing short of a miracle.

Dylan Bundy is not 30, he is just 20-years old. He is, however, yet to throw a pitch in the 2013 season thanks to soreness and tightness in his right forearm. The problem resulted in a two-week shutdown. Bundy threw off flat ground again on Monday and the soreness persisted. The Orioles are concerned. The Orioles are sending Bundy to an expert. Not just an expect, THE expert.

Cue the dramatic music: Dylan Bundy is going to see Dr. James Andrews.

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Dylan Bundy Pitched Today and He Did This

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Baltimore Orioles, Dylan Bundy, Riffin' And GIFfin' on Feb 27, 2013

Dylan Bundy is no stranger to long-time readers of Getting Blanked. He is no stranger to prospect watchers, who rank Bundy among the top five prospects in all of baseball.

After Bundy pitched two innings of relief against the Yankees today, allowing one walk and one hit. He is now no stranger to the intrepid YES viewers who managed to hang on into the third inning of a blowout Spring Training game.

More than anything, Dylan Bundy is no stranger to Juan Rivera. Rivera might be a broken-down shell of his former self (which wasn’t that great to begin with) but he knows a knee-buckler when he sees/is frozen by one. And, judging by this gif and his knees, Juan Rivera will not soon forget Dylan Bundy.

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Happy Birthday, Dylan Bundy

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Dylan Bundy, Prospectin' on Feb 20, 2013

Baltimore Orioles v Boston Red Sox

Like most people, I don’t know too much about prospects. I don’t get to see them play before they reach the big leagues and, even then, my exposure to most young players is somewhat limited. Like most people, I don’t have the scouting chops to decide who will become a star and who lacks the batspeed to make an impact at the big league level. I am not an expert, nor do I pretend to be one.

What makes a player number two on some lists but number six on another? Something catches the list complier’s eye or something a baseball evaluator says really resonates. Who knows? Internet lists are internet lists, they are built to entice clicks and generate conversation. Scouting Book provides a real time compilation of the rankings, creating their own composite top prospects list.

Jurickson Profar remains the consensus best prospect in the game and for good reason. Just 20-years old, Profar plays a premium defensive position (the premium defensive position?) of shortstop. He has a big body and packs some punch in his switch-hitting bat. There is a lot to love.

After that, who knows? Is Oscar Taveras more likely to reach his stratosphere-high ceiling than Dylan Bundy? Is Wil Myers the second coming of Mike Trout? All of the above are possible while none of the possible outcomes are particularly likely.

I don’t know anything but, for my money, there one player who I think will have the best career of any player in the current prospect class is Dylan Bundy of the Baltimore Orioles.

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Jurickson Profar, Dylan Bundy Named MLB.com’s Top Prospects

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Dylan Bundy, Jurickson Profar, Prospectin' on Jan 30, 2013

For whatever reason, the MLB.com prospect rankings, put together by Jonathan Mayo, don’t receive the same attention as other “independent” rankings. Perhaps it is the Corporate Overlord aspect or the relative level of industry juice possessed by head rankmaster, but the MLB.com rankings slip by with little fanfare.

Well, they are unveiled with MAXIMUM FANFARE via a full TV production for MLB Network. Last night was the great reveal and who was at the top but…Jurickson Profar. Duh.

The Top 10 according to Mayo…

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The Getting Blanked Show #86: Dylan “Bud” Bundy

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Baltimore Orioles, Dylan Bundy, The Getting Blanked Show on Sep 19, 2012

This whole Orioles thing just refuses to go away. We can try but, at this point, their charm is irresitable. They cannot be stopped, slowed, or reasoned with. They will kill us all without mercy.

We also talk about the Yunel Escobar thing, the unfortunate timing of Max Scherzer’s shoulder pain and the AL MVP non-debate. Then Buster and Timmy take the stage!

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URL Weaver: The #YOLOrioles Promote Bundy Edition

Posted by Dustin Parkes under Baltimore Orioles, Dylan Bundy, Link Dump on Sep 19, 2012

On Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning, the Baltimore Orioles won an 18 inning marathon against the Seattle Mariners by the score of 4-2. In the process of once again earning a tie atop the American League East with the New York Yankees, the team used eight different pitchers, five of whom pitched more than a single inning. The Orioles have one more game to play on the West Coast, before they return home and play 13 games in 13 days in three different cities. Such a feat, at least at the beginning, might prove to be difficult with a depleted bullpen, and so …

… the Baltimore Orioles, at their only living onceiest, have decided to promote 19-year-old pitching phenomenon Dylan Bundy to the Major League roster. As Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports suggests, Bundy will pitch in a limited role in relief, after throwing more than 1oo innings across three different Minor League levels in his first professional season. At this point, imagining Bundy as a potential injury replacement on the post season roster would be getting ahead of oneself.

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Moving On Up (Again): Baltimore Promotes Bundy to Double-A

Posted by Drew Fairservice under Baltimore Orioles, Dylan Bundy, Movin' On Up on Aug 09, 2012

 

The Baltimore Orioles care not for your conservative development plans for their high-end prospects. No sooner did the O’s promote top positional prospect Manny Machado to the big leagues, they announced the promotion of Dylan Bundy to Double-A. In his first pro season, fresh out of high school.

Bundy put up silly numbers in low-A this season and continued dominating the high-A Carolina League. The numbers weren’t as eye-popping but a 3.07 FIP is still pretty darn good, especially for a pitcher learning to work without his favorite weapon. The Orioles asked Bundy to put his cutter on the shelf so he might continue developing his curve.

The Orioles don’t have much to loose by moving Bundy up to Double-A to close out the season. His innings remain tightly managed and he now has a chance to show what he can do at the best league for prospects. Some Orioles fans might dream of seeing him with the big club down stretch and…well would you bet against the O’s doing it at this point? They don’t seem too interested in concerning themselves with what amateur prospect mavens think. Honestly: who knows what they might try next?

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