Crush has been really struggling at the plate the last month -- time for a few days off?

[spiritof66]

Small point (which I think I made last week). I would like to see Schoop and Davis rested a little. That means using Flaherty or Reimold or putting Trumbo at first, but they couldn't be a lot worse.

Bigger point. When so many guys aren't hitting, and appear to my (and many others') non-expert eyes to have a non-productive and at times inappropriate approach at the plate when there's a much-needed run on base, isn't it the job of each player to seek help from the hitting coach (or someone else. like Brady, if a player prefers), to consider some changes or at least minor adjustments, and at some point to try something different? If players don't do those things, isn't it the job of the manager to talk them into doing that?

I know that practically every hitter goes through slumps (though it seemed like Eddie Murray in his prime hardly ever did). That's frustrating to fans, and I assume to the slumping players. The fact that a number of Orioles hitters are slumping at once and the feeling that those slumps may well cost us the winnable ALEast makes that frustration much, much worse. But that's the way baseball goes, unless you've got a team with a lot more talent than your competitors or a bunch of unusually consistent players whose slumps are rare and brief (including fast guys who can chop and bunt their way on when they're in slumps). What's really getting to me is the way the Orioles' slumping hitters don't seem to be trying to make any adjustments or doing anything different to improve their performances. Maybe that's wrong, and there are things being done that are too subtle for me to see. But apart from not seeing it I haven't read about it or heard about it from the TV guys, who often are quick to credit an Oriole's hitting success to working with and getting valuable input from Coolbaugh.

[ChuckS]

Bring up Mancini and platoon them.

Strike 3 looking to end the game tells you that he is absolutely lost at the plate.

In a tight 3 way pennant race, we can't afford to play him against lefties, and we certainly can't bat him in the middle of the order.

Pearce should be getting regular starts at first base until Davis starts hitting again. Mancini could platoon with Alvarez I suppose on the days where Davis is not in the lineup.

I fear this is turning into a 2014 situation.

[Frobby]

TTO guys tend not to age well.

Best case scenario is Thome, worst is someone like Howard.

Here is the best discussion I have seen on the topic of Chris Davis comparables: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/chris-davis-a-risk-in-free-agency/

[webbrick2010]

Pearce should be getting regular starts at first base until Davis starts hitting again. Mancini could platoon with Alvarez I suppose on the days where Davis is not in the lineup.

I fear this is turning into a 2014 situation.

Is Pearce available, I haven't seen him since he left the game with a bum arm

If he isn't he should be DL'ed immediately

Time to give Dariel Alavarez a chance

[Can_of_corn]

Is Pearce available, I haven't seen him since he left the game with a bum arm

If he isn't he should be DL'ed immediately

Time to give Dariel Alavarez a chance

Buck won't DL a favorite if he will be ready to play in 10 days.

[sportsfan8703]

Bring up Mancini and platoon them.

Strike 3 looking to end the game tells you that he is absolutely lost at the plate.

In a tight 3 way pennant race, we can't afford to play him against lefties, and we certainly can't bat him in the middle of the order.

Striking out looking doesn't mean anything. Anyone can do that. Beltran did it in 2006 in the NLCS game 7. Ended the series.

CD's problem is that he can't hit low and inside pitches. If he can't get his arms extended you can contain him.

What sucks for us is that we make the playoffs in even years and CD sucks in odd years.

[Grt 2BA FL Gator]

Striking out looking doesn't mean anything. Anyone can do that. Beltran did it in 2006 in the NLCS game 7. Ended the series.

CD's problem is that he can't hit low and inside pitches. If he can't get his arms extended you can contain him.

What sucks for us is that we make the playoffs in even years and CD sucks in odd years.

I think it's opposite of what you said.. But in 2012 CD actually finished really hot, even though his overall numbers weren't as good.

[TradeAngelos]

Just looking at his Game logs and it was literally right after the AS Break it started going downhill. I mean up until that point he was chugging right along.

So we are now at exactly 4 weeks pretty much from that point, by far the longest "slump" of his career. He will come out of it at some point and probably soon.

Stanton hit all of 7 homers between May and June, while seeing his OPS plummet down to .714 at one point over .220 drop.

Crush has hit 10HR the last 2mths, and is only off around .100 since the slump started, and has still never dropped below .763 for the season.

I know one thing he isn't going to be in a slump for 3 months, so I'm betting he finishes strong.

[fastball]

Has Davis quit chewing tabaco or is he

In between?

[TradeAngelos]

Just looking at his Game logs and it was literally right after the AS Break it started going downhill. I mean up until that point he was chugging right along.

So we are now at exactly 4 weeks pretty much from that point, by far the longest "slump" of his career. He will come out of it at some point and probably soon.

Stanton hit all of 7 homers between May and June, while seeing his OPS plummet down to .714 at one point over .220 drop.

Crush has hit 10HR the last 2mths, and is only off around .100 since the slump started, and has still never dropped below .763 for the season.

I know one thing he isn't going to be in a slump for 3 months, so I'm betting he finishes strong.

4 for 8 with a .625 OBP since this post for the record.

[SteveA]

4 for 8 with a .625 OBP since this post for the record.

That math doesn't work out.

Unless he has 6 walks/HBP and 2 sac flies in addition to the 4 for 8.

[El Gordo]

Just looking at his Game logs and it was literally right after the AS Break it started going downhill. I mean up until that point he was chugging right along.

So we are now at exactly 4 weeks pretty much from that point, by far the longest "slump" of his career. He will come out of it at some point and probably soon.

Stanton hit all of 7 homers between May and June, while seeing his OPS plummet down to .714 at one point over .220 drop.

Crush has hit 10HR the last 2mths, and is only off around .100 since the slump started, and has still never dropped below .763 for the season.

I know one thing he isn't going to be in a slump for 3 months, so I'm betting he finishes strong.

Hardly. In 2012 he went .212 .268 .365 .633 for 41 G, in 2014 .280 .302 .582 for 35 G.

[TradeAngelos]

That math doesn't work out.

Unless he has 6 walks/HBP and 2 sac flies in addition to the 4 for 8.

I have no clue what you are talking about.

[TradeAngelos]

Hardly. In 2012 he went .212 .268 .365 .633 for 41 G, in 2014 .280 .302 .582 for 35 G.

I was just scanning hits really, he has never had the 0/1 streak he has recently.

Close enough as far as games either way, he is right there around that number again

[OsEatAlEast]

Did it look to anyone else that Davis was slowing down his swing a little to try to make contact yesterday? His swing just looked different. Whatever he did it worked out it seems.