A team full of no. 3 starters doesn't work

[ChuckS]

Not when your offense can't score runs, which is what a lot of us feared coming into the season.

I think the offense is going to look closer to the May offense than the April offense the rest of the way unless we can catch lighting in a bottle some how. Paredes and Jones were bound to come back down to earth following their Aprils and they have.

I think Wieters and Schoop returning and Pearce regaining some of his 2014 form (long shot) are our only hope. The offense looks pretty hopeless right now otherwise. Not a lot of help on the way and Wieters and Schoop are just as likely to struggle with the bat as they are to be a real force.

[25 Nuggets]

Well if your offense can't score runs, then your problem is that your offense can't score runs.

A bunch of #3 starters worked just fine last year, and we lost to a KC team with not much better a rotation.

[Three Run Homer]

Since May 1st the Orioles have played 32 games.

They have scored 2 runs or fewer in 16 of those 32 games.

You could have Koufax, Drysdale, Kershaw, Bumgarner and Seaver as your rotation, and you still wouldn't make the playoffs if your team got skunked every other game.

[Morgan423]

Well if your offense can't score runs, then your problem is that your offense can't score runs.

A bunch of #3 starters worked just fine last year, and we lost to a KC team with not much better a rotation.

Indeed. We'd need a rotation with 5 #1s in it to compete at all this year if the offense stays like this.

[sportsfan8703]

What starters have we knocked out of the game early this year? Even when we do score we just let them back in the game.

[Jonesy10]

Gonzalez has been very good as has Jimenez and Chen. The rotation would be as good if not better than last year's with the good/healthy versions of Tillman/Norris/Gausman. The pitching has been pretty good for a month+ now.

[orioles4lyfe]

Yea the offense is the problem, not the starting rotation. We only have 2 consistent hitters right now, Jones and Machado.We are really missing Cruz in the middle of the order. He made everyone around him in the lineup better.

[$Greatness$]

Yea the offense is the problem, not the starting rotation. We only have 2 consistent hitters right now, Jones and Machado.We are really missing Cruz in the middle of the order. He made everyone around him in the lineup better.

That's what happens when you just stand pat every off-season. I'm not saying go sign A-Rod for $700 million dollars, but don't sell me on D-Lough and De'Aza when we're 4 games way from the world series.

[LookitsPuck]

The offense is the problem. In the 27 innings they played the Astros they scored in 4 of those innings. Of those 4 innings only 1 the O's scored more than 1 run. It's pathetic, really. This team has been in a downward spiral offensively for what seems like a month+.

[Nevermore]

Since May 1st the Orioles have played 32 games.

They have scored 2 runs or fewer in 16 of those 32 games.

You could have Koufax, Drysdale, Kershaw, Bumgarner and Seaver as your rotation, and you still wouldn't make the playoffs if your team got skunked every other game.

Absolutely! Even with these 5, we couldn't win with our offense the way that it is. :rolleyestf:

[Frobby]

Yea the offense is the problem, not the starting rotation.[b{ We only have 2 consistent hitters right now, Jones and Machado. [/b]We are really missing Cruz in the middle of the order. He made everyone around him in the lineup better.

Jones has been anything but consistent. .556 OPS last month.

[mdbdotcom]

Clearly, the reason the Orioles have received below normal offensive production from De Aza , and Pearce, and Jones (in May), and Schoop (since he sprained his knee), and Snider, and Hardy, and Davis (frequently) is because Nelson Cruz isn't on the team. Look at the way he has improved the Mariners' offense and turned them into a run-scoring juggernaut this season. Not only should the Orioles have signed Cruz, they also should have opened up the piggy bank and replaced De Aza, Pearce, Jones, Schoop, Hardy, and Davis. Wasn't it obvious to everyone that they were going to fail, all at once?