O's hitting: last 2 weeks

[LookitsPuck]

Last 14 games:

Jones: .345/.391/.586 - .977 OPS

Kim: .304/.396/.370 - .766 OPS

Machado: .263/.306/.614 - .920 OPS

Davis: .146/.293/.208 - .501 OPS (21 strikeouts)

Trumbo: .130/.161/.241 - .401 OPS (15 strikeouts)

Alvarez: .327/.365/.776 - 1.141 OPS

Schoop: .204/.232/.241 - .473 OPS

Hardy: .289/.353/.422 - .775 OPS

Wieters: .149/.212/.234 - .446 OPS

Reimold: .061/.225/.152 - .377 OPS

Flaherty: .167/.259/.208 - .468 OPS

Joseph: .244/.279/.244 - .523 OPS

...not including tonight. Those numbers will all obviously drop aside from Jones and Schoop.

Davis with a .501 OPS, Trumbo .401 OPS, Schoop .473 OPS, Wieters .446.

[evenparthrough9]

Last 14 games:

Jones: .345/.391/.586 - .977 OPS

Kim: .304/.396/.370 - .766 OPS

Machado: .263/.306/.614 - .920 OPS

Davis: .146/.293/.208 - .501 OPS (21 strikeouts)

Trumbo: .130/.161/.241 - .401 OPS (15 strikeouts)

Alvarez: .327/.365/.776 - 1.141 OPS

Schoop: .204/.232/.241 - .473 OPS

Hardy: .289/.353/.422 - .775 OPS

Wieters: .149/.212/.234 - .446 OPS

Reimold: .061/.225/.152 - .377 OPS

Flaherty: .167/.259/.208 - .468 OPS

Joseph: .244/.279/.244 - .523 OPS

...not including tonight. Those numbers will all obviously drop aside from Jones and Schoop.

Davis with a .501 OPS, Trumbo .401 OPS, Schoop .473 OPS, Wieters .446.

You can go back to the last 5 weeks and it will be similar. Scored more that 6 runs twice since late June.

[sportsfan8703]

Wieters and Davis need days off bad. I think they're throwing Triggs tomorrow, so Buck will probably just stick with our regulars and let them hit against Triggs.

Lack of a plan tonight by the hitters. We should have had a team effort to raise that guy's pitch count up and knock him out early. Same with Triggs tomorrrow. These guys aren't stretched out. Should have been a team effort to get into the pen early and set up the last 2 games of the series.

We're just not good at grinding games out this year offensively.

[eddie83]

Davis in his last 104 at bats.

.125/.260/.192.

OPS would be .452 since July 3, 29 games.

[eddie83]

Wieters is 14 for his last 96.

.135/.202/.188

OPS since June 28 is .390.

[weams]

Last 14 games:

Jones: .345/.391/.586 - .977 OPS

Kim: .304/.396/.370 - .766 OPS

Machado: .263/.306/.614 - .920 OPS

Davis: .146/.293/.208 - .501 OPS (21 strikeouts)

Trumbo: .130/.161/.241 - .401 OPS (15 strikeouts)

Alvarez: .327/.365/.776 - 1.141 OPS

Schoop: .204/.232/.241 - .473 OPS

Hardy: .289/.353/.422 - .775 OPS

Wieters: .149/.212/.234 - .446 OPS

Reimold: .061/.225/.152 - .377 OPS

Flaherty: .167/.259/.208 - .468 OPS

Joseph: .244/.279/.244 - .523 OPS

...not including tonight. Those numbers will all obviously drop aside from Jones and Schoop.

Davis with a .501 OPS, Trumbo .401 OPS, Schoop .473 OPS, Wieters .446.

That says something. Thanks.

[Camden_yardbird]

In the Oakland series the 4-6 of Davis, Trumbo and Alvarez is 0-22.

[TINSTAAPP]

I put 90% of the blame on the players but it's interesting how the Rangers fired Coolbaugh after 2012 because they were having the same offensive issues the Orioles are having now.

It may not seem like it based on how things ended, but 2012 was not a bad year for the Rangers offensively. They led the major leagues in runs with 808 and tied for the big-league lead with 1,526 hits. They were second in total bases (2,493) and slugging percentage (.446) and third in extra-base hits (535).

But that offense was not consistent. They dazzled in April and May but then struggled in parts of June and July. They scored the fewest runs in the AL in July, only to score the most in August. And with the season on the line in late September, the club averaged just 4.3 runs per game in the final nine contests, going 2-7. They hit just .241 in that stretch and left at least six men on base in six of those games. In the seven losses in that nine-game stretch, Texas was just 12-for-48 with runners in scoring position (.250).

The inconsistency helped lead to changes in the coaching staff. Dave Magadan is now the hitting coach, hoping to help that offense find a little more production on a more regular basis.

One of his main duties: Figuring out how to get the club to perform better with a runner at third and less than two outs. The Rangers converted on 51 percent of those chances. The AL average was 52 percent. But for a team that has prided itself on being above average in those kinds of situations the last few years, it's not up to their standards to fall below.

If there was a game or two that illustrated this problem best late in the season, it was in Seattle and at home against Oakland late in the season. The Rangers had three chances with a runner at third and less than two outs in a 3-2 win over Seattle on Sept. 23 and couldn't convert.

Against the Oakland A's on Sept. 25 -- as the Rangers tried to hang on to the division lead -- Texas lost, 3-2, in extra innings in large part because they couldn't get that runner from third home. Josh Hamilton was at third base with no outs and the Nos. 4-6 hitters coming up in the first inning and none of them could get Hamilton home.

http://www.espn.com/blog/dallas/texas-rangers/post/_/id/4894563/ranger-resolution-better-situational-hitting

You could replace the word Rangers with Orioles and change around a few dates and numbers and the article could just as well be written about the 2016 Orioles.

[UpstateNYfan]

Before the season started I thought and commented that this team does not have the parts to win low scoring games. Poor speed, poor OBP and IMO players that cannot or refuse to take another approach when things aren't going right. Home runs do not stress pitchers unless there are runners on base. Palmer says as much on a frequent bases. How many of the HR's since the All Star break are solos. This team needs base runners. They have to do more with "hit 'em where they ain't". And they have to get runners in from third with less than two outs. I am not impressed with slugfests. I am impressed with doing things that turn 3-2, 2-1 loses into 4-3 and 3-2 victories.

[FlipTheBird]

The biggest problem remains that too many of our bats just don't have plans. They swing like it's a beer league softball game. Homers or bust. And when they get on a bust spell, it's ugly.

Other guys, like Wieters, honestly just aren't good bats anymore. Matt never really lived up to his potential, yeah, but what he was giving us as recently as 2013-2014 was admirable. Now he's just fallen off the planet.

JJ Hardy is an excellent case study in actually making adjustments. The guy doesn't have his 25-homer pop anymore, and it really hurt him 2014/2015. In 2016 you've seen him make some adjustments, and he's boosted some of his offensive numbers. He's never going to be what he was, but he's at least trying to produce how and when he can.

[Tony-OH]

The biggest problem remains that too many of our bats just don't have plans. They swing like it's a beer league softball game. Homers or bust. And when they get on a bust spell, it's ugly.

Other guys, like Wieters, honestly just aren't good bats anymore. Matt never really lived up to his potential, yeah, but what he was giving us as recently as 2013-2014 was admirable. Now he's just fallen off the planet.

JJ Hardy is an excellent case study in actually making adjustments. The guy doesn't have his 25-homer pop anymore, and it really hurt him 2014/2015. In 2016 you've seen him make some adjustments, and he's boosted some of his offensive numbers. He's never going to be what he was, but he's at least trying to produce how and when he can.

Great point about Hardy. His power is basically gone at this point but he's doing a better job of just trying to hit linedrives or take his singles when there.

[btownoriole]

Man, those are brutal numbers. The optimist in me is hoping that this is the cumulative effect of the brutal travel schedule since June 26 (games in 11 different cities, as many on West Coast as at home, 37% of entire road schedule over 7 weeks).

The pessimist in me worries that the first half was a mirage, that the league has figured out Kim, that we're stuck with 2014 Davis for the rest of the year, and that Schoop & Trumbo are regressing back to who they truly are.

The truth is likely in the middle. Hopefully the starting pitching continues its recent trend & the offense reawakens soon. Even though there are a nice stretch of home games ahead, the quality of opponents is strong.

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[LookitsPuck]

Great point about Hardy. His power is basically gone at this point but he's doing a better job of just trying to hit linedrives or take his singles when there.

Agreed. He started changing his approach over the last year or 2...guess he started seeing the power zapped. Nice to see his new approach.

[TouchemAll]

Last 14 games:

Jones: .345/.391/.586 - .977 OPS

Kim: .304/.396/.370 - .766 OPS

Machado: .263/.306/.614 - .920 OPS

Davis: .146/.293/.208 - .501 OPS (21 strikeouts)

Trumbo: .130/.161/.241 - .401 OPS (15 strikeouts)

Alvarez: .327/.365/.776 - 1.141 OPS

Schoop: .204/.232/.241 - .473 OPS

Hardy: .289/.353/.422 - .775 OPS

Wieters: .149/.212/.234 - .446 OPS

Reimold: .061/.225/.152 - .377 OPS

Flaherty: .167/.259/.208 - .468 OPS

Joseph: .244/.279/.244 - .523 OPS

...not including tonight. Those numbers will all obviously drop aside from Jones and Schoop.

Davis with a .501 OPS, Trumbo .401 OPS, Schoop .473 OPS, Wieters .446.

One of Davis or Trumbo BETTER step up soon. The pitchers are actually getting it done. That 151 million dollar bat needs to do something better then the mendoza line. :slytf: