Post's Barry Svrluga on the Orioles' current predicament

[DrungoHazewood]

Angles you could take from those quotes:

-Adam is an idiot. He thinks a .220 hitter shouldn't try to improve.

-Adam is stabbing DD in the back, he thinks the team was built poorly

-Adam is delusional, he thinks the Orioles are a great team just going through some bad luck

-Adam is one to talk... his own "aggressiveness" is perpetuating a 5.6 BB% and a 60% swing rate from the leadoff spot.

A reporter can talk a loaded quote like that and march into whatever direction he feels like going. Trying to determine the true heart and meaning behind a few sentences is hard work. No one on the OH should presume to think they know what Adam is thinking.

What I took out of it was that it's a fool's errand to ask a group of mostly veteran major league hitters to fundamentally change their approach on September 23rd. If you want a high-contact, high-OBP, low-K hitters you're gonna have to turn over much of the team.