Jump to content

Most important homestand in 15+ years

bluedog

By bluedog
in Orioles Talk

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 95
  • Created
  • Last Reply
SilentJames Hangout Veteran Council

SilentJames

Posted
Posted
If we can win the Red Sox series, I will consider this to have been a very good homestand. I'm very satisfied to be sitting 5-2 after 7 games but there is more work to be done.

If we take the Sox series it means: The Orioles will have complete control of at least one wild card spot, and the Red Sox will be either 6.5 or 8.5 games out (if we can sweep).

What I think has a good shot of happening if we take the Red Sox series - Bobby Valentine will get canned.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Pickles Hangout Grand Counsel

Pickles

Posted
Posted
If we take the Sox series it means: The Orioles will have complete control of at least one wild card spot, and the Red Sox will be either 6.5 or 8.5 games out (if we can sweep).

What I think has a good shot of happening if we take the Red Sox series - Bobby Valentine will get canned.

They can't fire him yet. That be way too blatant of an admission of a mistake. I bet he's safe for at least a year.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
OFFNY Hangout Grand Counsel

OFFNY

Posted
Posted
5-2 against a couple of the worst teams in the league is par... not an achievement. Winning the series against the Sox is a must.

Winning the game today was a must ....... as was winning last night, which would have given us a chance to take 3 out of 4 in this 4-game set. If we win the Red Sox series, then we "must" win the Tigers series, who are right there with us, battling for one of the wildcard spots. Every game and every series that the Orioles have played this year have all been "musts."

Link to comment
Share on other sites
SilentJames Hangout Veteran Council

SilentJames

Posted
Posted
5-2 against a couple of the worst teams in the league is par... not an achievement. Winning the series against the Sox is a must.

Anytime you have a four-game series, by default you take a split. Beating a team three times in a series is an accomplishment - sweeps are headline news.

The Red Sox series is important because if we falter here it let's the Sox back into the race and gives them a little mojo.

Even if we lose the series, we are still right there in the wildcard race and many eight games over, but that could be the spark that team needs.

Getting swept would be a disaster. Outright.

Chen needs a bounceback game - win game one the rest will follow.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Greg Veteran All-Star

Greg

Posted
Posted
5-2 against a couple of the worst teams in the league is par... not an achievement. Winning the series against the Sox is a must.

I think you need to go look at what the M's are doing to the Angels this weekend.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
SilentJames Hangout Veteran Council

SilentJames

Posted
Posted
5-2 against a couple of the worst teams in the league is par... not an achievement. Winning the series against the Sox is a must.
I think you need to go look at what the M's are doing to the Angels this weekend.

And, to be fair, the Royals had won 6 of 9 coming into the series.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing


  • Posts

    • Baseball fandom
      Elias: Hyde will be back

      By Baseball fandom · Posted

      Lol.  I give up. Next. 
    • Baseball fandom
      Elias: Hyde will be back

      By Baseball fandom · Posted

      41 freaking years and here's this guy with the name pickles telling me I should be happy with 91 wins and getting owned in the playoffs again. 😂 😂 I saw a team that looked terrible the second half and probably didn't even deserve that spot the way they were playing .
    • Baseball fandom
      Elias: Hyde will be back

      By Baseball fandom · Posted

      Lol. Here's the funny they know more then you know. Typical Oriole fan who's happy with getting punched in the mouth. 
    • e16bball
      Walltimore

      By e16bball · Posted

      I don’t like the wall. I think it’s affecting our hitters. I’ve mentioned before that I think it has totally warped Mountcastle into something he was never really meant to be. The guy came up as a pull-heavy HR hitter, and in his first season-plus (725 PAs), he puts up 38 HRs and a 116 wRC+. Since then, the wRC+ is down to 110, and his approach has totally changed, with his pull numbers plummeting (down from 39% in 2021 to less than 28% this year). He still hits the ball hard, but constantly underachieves his batted ball data — probably because he’s trying to avoid the pull field and hitting balls to the deepest parts of pretty much every other park. Will the same thing happen to Mayo? Maybe he has more pure power, but it’s always going to be a challenge for a RH slugger to survive with that wall. So much harder to do damage.   Beyond that, I think it’s also creating a serious risk of changing our LH hitters’ approaches too. These guys (Henderson, Holliday, Cowser, 2/3 of Adley) have come up with a reputation for being able to drive the ball to all fields. But how long does that continue when they just can’t hit it out to the opposite field? Our LH hitters had a combined 44 wRC+ at OPACY, and only one HR. They had the 3rd most balls hit to LF at home by LHHs, but the lowest wRC+ of any team on those balls (for the second straight year). The Royals, ironically enough, were the only team that was lower than a 70 wRC+ — that’s how much worse our lefties fared going oppo (at OPACY) than everyone else’s. By player: Gunnar Henderson: 112 wRC+ / .160 ISO (51 PAs) Adley Rutschman: 10 wRC+ / .026 ISO (38 PAs) Anthony Santander: 14 wRC+ / .095 ISO (43 PAs) Colton Cowser: 58 wRC+ / .057 ISO (36 PAs) Ryan O’Hearn: 47 wRC+ / .091 ISO (55 PAs) Cedric Mullins: 23 wRC+ / .100 ISO (41 PAs) Jackson Holliday: -72 wRC+ / .000 ISO (16 PAs)   On the road, they had a combined 126 wRC+ (with 9 HRs) going to left field, so it’s not like they’re bad at it. It’s just Death Valley out there in LF for them at OPACY.  How long will it be until these LH guys just start going full pull-happy? Essentially, the opposite of what’s happened with Mountcastle. When (a) your team’s philosophy is to focus on doing damage and (b) you can’t DO damage to the opposite field — the rational endpoint is just to try to pull everything. I don’t think that’s a good outcome. I think it makes them much worse hitters in the other 81 games, and I think it’s a terrible waste of a bunch of really talented hitters with all-field abilities.
    • Pickles
      Elias: Hyde will be back

      By Pickles · Posted

      Which core players beside Adley Rutschman struggled?
    • Pat Kelly
      Elias: Hyde will be back

      By Pat Kelly · Posted

      The entire commentary on Hyde and the team seems odd but have to admit there does seem to be something off.   Team seemed adrift for most of the 2nd half.  A very talented team went off the rails midway through the season mostly due to core players struggling and rookies not performing or filling in adequately for a few injured starters.    None of the position player trade line acquisitions performed that well.     Hyde seemed in over his head or at a loss on how to correct things, but he must have convinced Elias that he has a plan to fix things.  Curious to see what happens with the coaching staff.  
    • Allan Bryant
      What about Tomoyuki Sugano for 2025?

      By Allan Bryant · Posted

      And or give up picks for QO pitchers 

  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...