TT: Orioles' offense well positioned down stretch despite recent struggles

[Tony-OH]

Again, it would matter little if he did.

I don't know if I agree with this line of thinking. Why would you not want your better hitters to have more opportunities? If Davis is a K machine right now, why do you want him sitting in the number four hole after Jones, Kim or Machado have gotten on?

I believe you put your better hitters at the top of the lineup and if someone is severely struggling, you drop them and put the hot hand in there. Nothing wrong wit dropping Davis to 5th or 6th in the lineup until he finds his way out of his current drought.

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I don't know if I agree with this line of thinking. Why would you not want your better hitters to have more opportunities? If Davis is a K machine right now, why do you want him sitting in the number four hole after Jones, Kim or Machado have gotten on?

I believe you put your better hitters at the top of the lineup and if someone is severely struggling, you drop them and put the hot hand in there. Nothing wrong wit dropping Davis to 5th or 6th in the lineup until he finds his way out of his current drought.

I agree, the difference for the last month or two is minuscule in number of at bats. So bat him eighth if you want to. I don't think it matters much.

[Barnfather]

There isn't anything to worry about in this regard.

A team hitting as we were doing, won't slump for the rest of the season.

I do agree at moving Davis out of the 4-hole until he has broken out of his funk though. I'd push Schoop up. Mind you, I'd also be tempted to switch Kim and Jones around. AJ hits enough long balls and Kim gets on base frequently enough to see this as a + move IMO

As per all season, pitching looks more of a worry. I'm hoping that Bundy's recent form keeps going, which will help

[SteveA]

Methinks the flu has slowed some guys. It can take awhile to fully recover. Offensive resurgence imminent.

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Yep. Flu. Some pretty good pitching we have faced. Some games on the road. Nasty travel last week (two straight nights we had to fly after a night game and get in at 4-6AM and then play that evening in a new city, I don't know if any other major league team has had to do that this year).

And yes, some guys in bad slumps. Chris Davis has a history of being streaky.

We hit 4 HRs last night, 3 off a guy who had only given up 3 in a game once or twice in his career. Hopefully we're coming out of it.

[luismatos4prez]

Kim

Machado

Jones

Davis

Trumbo

Schoop

Alvarez/Pearce

Wieters

Hardy

is my lineup for the rest of the year. There's no need for Jones to leadoff anymore.

[Tony-OH]

There isn't anything to worry about in this regard.

A team hitting as we were doing, won't slump for the rest of the season.

I do agree at moving Davis out of the 4-hole until he has broken out of his funk though. I'd push Schoop up. Mind you, I'd also be tempted to switch Kim and Jones around. AJ hits enough long balls and Kim gets on base frequently enough to see this as a + move IMO

As per all season, pitching looks more of a worry. I'm hoping that Bundy's recent form keeps going, which will help

The only reason I like them batting the way they are is that Jones hits more hard ground balls that can be turned into DP than Kim. Also, having a lefty bat 2nd gives more opportunity for Rf hits that move the runner to 3rd. Saying that,, having on OBP guy before a power guy does make some sense. right now Jones seems compfrtable leading off and most pitches like to start off with the fastball early in the game so you would think he's seeing a few more fastballs than normal. Don't know if the stats back that up though.