Should the O's fire Jim Presley?

[weams]

He's telling them to look for a pitch that they can drive. That way madness lies. He should be telling them to look for a pitch they can take over the fence.

Warmth, Camden Yards, and a Healed Oblique will fix a lot of what might be ailing us.

[DrungoHazewood]

Last in the majors in walks. Seems like the organization needs to make some kind of statement that they care about BB's P/AB and OBP. It's clear that the players and Adam Jones (as team leader) don't give it any priority.

Absolutely. Consistency with RISP and walk rate are really just things the coaching staff requests, any good MLB hitter should be malleable. Ready, willing, and able to change their approach to whatever works best. There's no reason a seemingly free-swinging team that wildly goes from great RISP to poor couldn't be a consistently high-walk team that hits .330 with RISP each and every game of the year. If only the Orioles had a coach willing to suggest they hit better.

That's really the new market inefficiency: realizing all professional hitters are simply direct reflections of their coaches. Ted Williams and Mariano Duncan could easily have swapped careers with different teachers.

[DrungoHazewood]

What do you think that Jim Pressley is doing to keep the batters from walking?

Slipping them drugs that dull their reaction times to the point where they can't discern a ball from a strike.

[oriolesmagic9]

This just in.......nobody on a team half a game out of first place is getting fired.

[DrungoHazewood]

This just in.......nobody on a team half a game out of first place is getting fired.

In each of the last two years, which saw the O's in contention and over .500 all season, there were people who were seriously advocating for the O's being deadline sellers to prep for the inevitable collapse and multi-year rebuild. Last year they even suggested that Buck, Presley, Duquette and really most of the organization be fired.

[CA-ORIOLE]

Slipping them drugs that dull their reaction times to the point where they can't discern a ball from a strike.

Sounds like he learned some stuff from Terry Crowley.

[Can_of_corn]

Sounds like he learned some stuff from Terry Crowley.

It took him until last fall to find the Crow's old stash.

[DrungoHazewood]

Sounds like he learned some stuff from Terry Crowley.

Clearly Angelos will only approve the hiring of hitting coaches who deliberately undermine the team.

[The Wedge]

[OFFNY]

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Forget Pressley.

If it were up to me, I would fire Showalter.

We had sole possession of first place on Friday, and we just gave it ...... GAVE IT back to the Yankees.

Poor leadership.

Failure to get the players motivated to beat the Twins.

Ron Johnson couldn't be any worse.

Ron Johnson, not to be confused with Ron Swanson.

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Or, former New York Giants running back (and two-tme 1,000-yard rusher in the days when the season was only 14 games), Ron Johnson.

[weams]

Warmth, Camden Yards, and a Healed Oblique will fix a lot of what might be ailing us.

Braves just lost Six in a row.

[oriolesmagic9]

Braves just lost Six in a row.

Proof that the manager of that team needs to get the pink slip. Can't see the Braves recovering with so few games left on the schedule.

[oriolesmagic9]

In each of the last two years, which saw the O's in contention and over .500 all season, there were people who were seriously advocating for the O's being deadline sellers to prep for the inevitable collapse and multi-year rebuild. Last year they even suggested that Buck, Presley, Duquette and really most of the organization be fired.

Stop trying to bring perspective to this discussion.

[CA-ORIOLE]

Braves just lost Six in a row.

...and they're still in first place.

[weams]

...and they're still in first place.

Yeah. We are a half game out. Who are we firing?