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    Something I love about baseball

    in Orioles Talk

    Posted · Edited by allquixotic

    Randy Arozarena is another example of the surprise and unpredictability of the game. I bring him up because I was at the game last night and was marveling at his low BA on the scoreboard compared to what I remember this guy to be capable of.

    In his breakout years of 2019-2020, he had pretty scary stats, albeit with limited plate appearances. High average, and OPS+ of 135 and 182 respectively. Yikes!

    Since then, he's had 3 full ML years under his belt -- 2021, 2022 and 2023. He got slightly worse each year according to OPS+ (129, 123, 120) but that's not a huge backslide. 2022 was a big doubles year for him, then in 2023 he hit more home runs and fewer doubles.

    Last year he was a .254 hitter with 23 home runs, 19 doubles and 3 triples. With a 120 OPS+, he's still a major league piece you would want in a lineup.

    Then there's this year. In 230 PA -- about a third of a season -- he has shown a huge dropoff in hits. He's on pace to get about the same number of doubles and home runs as last year, but about 50 fewer hits. His OPS+ is half of last year's, and worse than ML average at 65.

    In recent years, he's been a batter I've dreaded to see at the plate against the O's. But this year, he's showing signs of Chris Davis syndrome with the batting average falling off a cliff. Perhaps not coincidentally, the Rays are not where they'd like to be at this point in the season with a losing record.

    Baseball is weird.

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    Monday afternoon May 27, 2024 - Os vs RedSox

    in Game Threads

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    4 minutes ago, allquixotic said:

    Really? He's thrown 11 pitches for the Orioles.

    I don't give players a very long leash, but even I'm willing to give him more than one look.

    OK, he had an 11 run lead, but he walked the bases loaded, gave up a triple, and walked another. Uh.

    If he sucks the next time he pitches (hopefully in a low leverage situation), DFA him.

    Thursday, May 23: Orioles at White Sox

    in Game Threads

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    I'm not sure what they expected when they brought up Heasley, but he performed exactly as advertised.

    Kind of like when you buy a $1500 2011 Chevy Cruze base model with the entire front-end reconstructed and not painted the body color, no A/C, and a college kid private seller who says it "runs great". Hope you have State Farm...

    Thursday, May 23: Orioles at White Sox

    in Game Threads

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    Whew!

    So the reason they are impressing me in the 6th inning is, this White Sox pitcher has a 2.00 ERA in 18 innings before facing us. You have to figure he's got a working formula to get ML hitters out. And yet, we hung tight, made him throw a ton of pitches, and Adley dropped one in there barely for a pair of runs.

    Some luck, but loading up the bases wasn't luck.

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