TommyPickles

I thought Bundy had been under team control through the 2022 season? And I'm not saying I think ownership is doing a bad job, just that their sites seem a little further down the road.

MLB.com recently ranked Bundy’s complete game one-hitter against the Mariners on August 29th, 2017, as the 9th best Os game of the last decade. (3rd best regular season game of the decade) Ill miss Bundy. Always felt like we had a shot with him starting.

If you had to guess, when do you think they're "shooting" for playoff contention? I was thinking 2022 at the start of the 2019 season, but that feels hopeless now. 2023? 2024? 2025? Later?

Do you think we’ve prioritized signing players who can hit home runs over the past ten years, because of the dimensions of OPACY? Is that part of the rationale for signing players like Davis and Trumbo?

This. Want one in my lifetime.

Wild overpay for a 31 year old with a career .751 OPS...

2012 was awesome, but I voted 2014. It was such a new and thrilling experience to root for a dominant O’s team in my adult lifetime. Plus I was there when Delmon Young hit that bases clearing double and it was absolutely wild. That feels like the only season of the decade where we, realistically, could have won a WS.

Ah I see. Well I wish him well on his 2020 NL Cy Young pursuit...

What’s the status of Gabriel Ynoa? I know he’s not anyone’s favorite, but I haven’t seen him mentioned here and I fully expected him to get starts again this year for the Os.

Signed up for plus membership after reading this post. Keep it going, OG! Where else am I going to read about our wildcard run in 2021 and then our World Series run in 2022?

That's awesome. Glad he's still playing.

Will do!

Guess my buddies and I will no longer be driving down from Philly after work for any of those games... We we're already showing up around the bottom of the 2nd/top of the 3rd as it was... But good for the kiddos, I guess.

So a guy can let up back to back homers and a manager can't pull him? That's wild.

I like the WAR stat and its one of the first things I look at. That said, I do think it somewhat overrates defense. I think about someone like Craig Gentry. In 2018 he only had 169 PA. He put up a .668 OPS/85 OPS+. He hit just 1 HR and recorded just 11 RBIs. Defensively he played in 62 games, 30 of which he started. He recorded 2 assists and committed 2 errors. His DRS was 7. His WAR was 1.1. Versus someone like Adam Jones. Jones played in 145 games that year. He had 613 PA. He put up a .732 OPS/101 OPS+. He hit 15 homers and 63 RBIs. Defensively he played in 139 games, 138 of which he started. He recorded 5 assists and committed 2 errors. His DRS was bad, -25. His WAR was 0.2. I get that Gentry was a better defender, but was he really worth more than five times what Jones was that year? What would Gentry's stats have looked like if he had played 145 games? What would Jones' have been if he's just played RF/LF (where the stats looked a lot better)? Seems off to me.

I think Buck would be a good choice for Philly.

Yea. It was mlb.com’s click baity title, not mine. That’s why I put it in quotes.

I would love to see Buck become the manager of the Angels. There was an MLB.com article recently about Bruce Bochy becoming the "Latest and perhaps last manager to reach 2000 wins." They mentioned that one of the people who could theoretically also get to 2,000 was Buck. He currently has 1,551 and is 63 years old.

Yea the bullpen stunk. 2018 ERAs: Givens: 3.99 Bleier: 1.93 Castro: 3.96 Fry: 3.35 2019 ERAs: Givens: 4.57 Bleier: 5.37 Castro: 4.66 Fry: 5.34

I think 2022 is the goal too. .500 by 2021. Wild card by 2022. Division champs in 2023. Dare to dream.

The 2019 Orioles had a team OPS of .725. This was a big improvement from their .689 team OPS in 2018 and obviously part of the reason they won seven more games. What's interesting is that OPS is up all around baseball. In 2018, the average MLB OPS was .727. In 2019, that jumped all the way up to .757. In fact, that .757 OPS is the highest its been in MLB over the past 10 years. You have to go all the way back to 2007 (when the average OPS was .758) to find a year that beats this one. ERA has followed accordingly. In 2018, the average ERA in MLB was 4.14. In 2019, it shot up to 4.49. So, is this evidence that balls were juiced this year? Or are batters and their new launch angles just slipping ahead of pitchers in the never ending race to outsmart each another?

Alberto is the man... Hell of a season for a 26 year old making the league minimum.

Baseball Ref > Fangraphs

Can't we just cut Davis loose, and have Mountcastle and Mancini split 1B and DH? Why do either of them need to be part of the crowded OF picture?

Thank you. Exactly this.