Rbiggs2525

The Orioles should just have an honest conversation with Ryan Mountcastle. He needs to spend 5 days a week in the gym. He needs to put on 10-20 lbs of good weight. He will take a body fat test now and another in February when they report. If the parameters are not met he will be traded. The second kicker is they have new pitching machine technology. He needs to report a minimum of 3 days a week. His main focus will be low and away breaking balls.

My personal hopes for this offseason would be to get rid of the splits and let these guys play 5-6 times a week. Find the guys you want to roll with and let them figure it out.

Yes to Holliday. He seems to be our only hope at a premium contact bat. You can’t have all these strikeout guys hitting back to back moving forward. 1,3,,4,5,6 all strikeout a ton.

Our media is way too easy on the Orioles. Elias is always able to give some politician talk without and real push back. My first question would have been who is in charge of shortening up the players swings? How come the third baseman is playing 45 feet off the line and Gunnar Henderson is swinging for a HR? Who is in charge of coming up with a plan so Ryan Mountcastle doesn’t fouls off one decent fastball and then swing at low and away breaking stuff the rest of the bat? Why was Adley Rutchman and McCann in the game 1 lineup when they both have hit under 200 for 3 months? Why wasn’t Adley ever put in the 8th/9th spot in the lineup?

I’m very critical of Hyde at times. Only Elias will know what the right decision is. I personally feel like he has the respect of his team an Elias personnel let him down. He needed a mature MOO bat and ended up with Jiminez and Slater.

You have to go 3-4-5-6 and add Mountcastle. What a joke that guy is.

Adley was the problem but actually Hydes reluctance to hit him 9th or bench him was the bigger problem. Our team has this big ego thing where you can fool around with Kjerstad, Cowser, Holliday but nobody touches Gunnar and Adley.

I agree with some of the opening post. I cannot blame Hyde for this team not hitting. I believe it is completely analytical based. Analytics are against singles, walks, hit and run or bunts. I know we can pick our guy to be upset with but I will go with Tony Taters. Adley hit a single to RF and with the right effort and baserunning he should have been on third base. Don’t have to talk about the terrible AB with the bases loaded. There was another play with the Massey single in the second that rubbed me the wrong way. The ball was hit 73 MPH and landed 250 feet. The RF wall is 325 feet away so how far is he playing back against Michael Massey? Tony did not strike me of a guy giving it everything he had to get to a fly ball. He basically assumed Mullins would get it and jogged in.

Either way what he did was inexcusable. It takes over 11 seconds to get a triple and Pham had it to cutoff by about 9. Admiring a 330 foot fly ball is crazy.

I don’t really care either way. All the teams are good but if the Orioles lose to the Royals or Tigers it will be a microcosm of this season. We have the most talented roster in the AL but it would be sure nice if our All Star catcher comes out of his funk.

Rays have 3 guys in top 30. Sometimes teams will fall short on money the last few months before signing. It’s how we got Basallo and Stiven Martinez I believe.

Yes my mistake I thought those were eligible. They may be eligible after winter meetings. Manfred seems to like the idea of making more picks available for trade.

I always compare where we are in attendance to payroll. As it stands our attendance will be 19th in the league and payroll 22nd. The Twins are at 19th with 130 million dollar payroll which is 22 million higher than ours. I expect the Nats and Tigers to spend a little this offseason so that 130 million mark for 19th place may move closer to 140. Still gives this team 50-60 million to spend on either resigning guys or free agents.

Let Santander and Burnes walk for draft picks. Trade the draft picks for legitimate back end relief help ala Mason Miller. Sign Soto to 10-12 years 500-600 million dollar contract. Trade Mayo or Basallo for legitimate number 2 starter. Sign a veteran starting pitcher.

I prefer just getting on and stealing a base. Our swings are too long and hard to sustain.