Bahama O's Fan

Was this the guy that replaced Richie Bancells?

For me, hardly any. I hate it that the richest teams just outspent others on their way to a title.

Keep him. Start him on the 60 day IL to start the year and see what happens after then.

Basallo needs to be the every day AAA catcher to start the season. Ger him more reps there and then see how it goes.

How bout we bring up the Tides' hitting coach, Mike Montville?

Not Fredi!!

I'm not advocating for him this upcoming season. I wanted him last offseason. While it wasn't what I wanted, he certainly would have been better to have than Jimenez or Adley at DH at the end of the season.

From here https://www.mlb.com/orioles/stats/ops/regular-season

On the O's this year, Martinez would have been: 5th in OPS 5th in AVG 6th in HRs in 120 games

I think the league adjusted to our approach and we didn't readjust.

Across the majors, are AAA hitters coming up and doing well or struggling at first? I wonder if the hitting is due to robo umps in AAA so they clearly know what the strike zone is and in the majors is flavor of the day with whichever that ump decides.

If money is no object, then this is where I'm going 1. Gerritt Cole (if he opts out) 2. Juan Soto

But who is in charge of the hitting coaches? Who picked them? Who worked with them over the season? I also think there is a clubhouse thing where we get down and depressed very quickly if we start off bad. I think that's from the top down as well. Honestly, other than looking at the team's record, I don't know anything that Hyde does well. People give Hyde credit for the record, but maybe we could have been even better. It takes a special manager to go from good to great. What I'm getting at is maybe, just maybe, they were good not because of Hyde, but in spite of Hyde.

Well, they better figure out why the entire lineup failed for three months if it's not a coaching issue.

Luck and chance that the entire lineup decided the all star break was the end of the season and we really didn't need to hit anymore. That's not just luck and chance. Something happened. It might have been a clubhouse thing that Hyde couldn't get under control. It might have been other teams adjusting to our hitting approach and we never readjusted. Maybe we have players with no stamina (Adley, Gunnar, etc...) and need a better conditioning program. There is something deeper going on. Even that last game, Hyde managed scared, pulling Efflin after 4 innings with only one run allowed. The players could see that too and it affected them.