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Adley is the only guy taking pitches and working the pitcher.

New to the team and pitchers. Pitchers don't call meetings to tell the hitters to stop sucking. Anyways, I don't think team meetings really help. I think they just need to get out of the cold, rainy weather. the Royals are young and hungry like the Orioles were LAST YEAR. Now we have the "veteranish" team that think they can just walk out there and win. They probably rather not be out there with the weather (nobody does) but the Royals are hungry, fast, and have had some very good at bats. They are taking close pitches and made Burnes work. The Orioles hitters just clearly don't have the right approach. It's like they scored all those runs the first two games and just thought they can show up and score that much. The last 4 games should tell them they can't. They need to change their approach.

Who? Who's the Veteran leader that's been there, done that? They don't even listen to their manager. What he says means nothing.

No doubt. They clearly have no approach. They clearly do not want to be playing in the rain and cold. This team is a bit weak mentally and there does not appear to be any veteran leadership to get them going. Don't worry, good 'ol Hyder will get them going. Oh wait, they don't listen to him either. Alright, I'm getting frustrated. This is not fun. Maybe they could use me tuning out to get it going? Somebody let me know if they have more than a 10 pitch inning the rest of the game.

See this is where I have issues with Hyde's leadership. He said in yesterday's presser that the team was not taking good at bats. So what do they do tonight? The exact same thing. No one changed their approach. No veteran leadership going out there and havinga good at bat, or at least working the starter that's dominating them? Nothing. Nada. No change.

How many pitches was that inning? Holy crap. This team has no desire to be out there tonight.

Roy, can you get a text into Kevin Brown and tell him DIAL DOWN HIS FAKE EXCITEMENT OVER MR. SPLASH on a cold rainy night when the Orioles are not hitting at all?

Mayo is single-handedly killing himself defensively this season no matter where you play him. Crazy how bad he's been.

Not at the magic 100 pitch mark this early in the season. Plus Hyde sees his bats are not doing anything tonight. You don't risk your ace on a night like this. The Orioles are going to need a Royals reliever to come in and really stink it up to have a chance tonight.

Actually that was a gutty, veteran performance by Burnes. Didn't have his A stuff or his command yet got them 5.2 IP.

Kevin Brown to Palmer, "What do you lose on a night like this, velocity?" Meanwhile Royals starter hitting 98 MPH. I hate when he forces questions to his analysts.

Nope. This guy is pitching really well with good stuff, but this offense has showed nothing since the 2nd game of the season. Hitting is contagious and the problem with this long time core (Santander, Hays, Mountcastle, Hays, Mullins *though not playing today*) is they tend to go cold all at the same time. None of them are the kind of guys that will grind out an at bat with the team is struggling but more apt to swing early and make quick outs. Now we had hoped that Rutschman, Gunnar and Westburg would be different. I'm not convinced they are yet. Maybe they will be, but they've gone awfully cold at the same time. Now maybe you have to tip your cap to the Royals pitching. Or maybe you have to look the fact this team does not have a legitimate middle of the order hitter that will carry a team when guys are struggling.

But they couldn't afford Montgomery because... well, because JA was just stealing money from fans.

Nah, Elias is like "I like my average guys." Why trade away his approximately 1000 prospects to get a true cleanup hitter when you can just run out Santander, Mountcastle and Hays.

Burns is battling tonight. It's not his fault the Orioles have decide hitting a baseball is very, very hard and they don't like to do it it in rainy cold weather. Maybe this team believes it can just show up and beat teams because now people expect them to be good?

Oy, Kevin's Brown wants something to cheer about so bad his voice just rose on that obvious foul ball by Santander.

Lol Salvatore Perez. He'd be going to the HoF if he played the Orioles every night.

Left-handed pitchers have embarrassed the Orioles for years and Elias has yet to solve this problem. How can that be? He literally has SIGBOT building him lineups and even his right-handers don't hit left's well. Then when they do get a guy who hits lefties well (Stowers) they bury him because they don't like left-lefty matchups? Can we just try putting names in a hat and pulling out the names for the next lineup and tell Sig and Eve to reprogram their computer?

Gray, rainy, and the Orioles looking like absolute dog-poo the last three nights (How many innings have they led in this series, like one?) is no way to go through a week in Baltimore. Add in the Angels absolutely crushing the Orioles on Sunday, and yeah, no fun in birdville.

Just be glad they got rid of Frazier and Odor. SIGBOT would think they could be in the same lineup.

Never draw too many conclusions based on the first six games of a season. Saying that, it does appear that scrappy, fast teams are going to give Orioles problems. It's literally embarrassing how easy it is to steal on Rutschman and McCann.

Cowser's route has nothing to do with catch probability.

Strangely, the feed updated but that play is not on O'Hearn's catch probability list. Not sure why.

This won't be available until sometime today when baseball savant updates. They don't have catch probability available to the general public in the game feed for some reason.

There is no reason that Ryan O' Hearn should be playing outfield on a contending team in anything other than an emergency. He's a DH/1B and EMERGENCY outfielder. I think they had planned all along for Cowser to start in LF and give Hays off, but the weather made them decide to put O'Hearn in RF instead of Santander. The fact that we ran a lineup out there that included Kemp at 2B and O'Hearn in RF is pretty sad when there are better players in AAA. But Elias likes depth and tries to get away with these guys playing out of position. I will say though, you can't on one hand tell hitting prospects like Holliday, Mayo, Norby and Kjerstad to go back and improve defense when you are running a guy like O'Hearn out to RF to start a game. It absolutely makes him look hypocritical.