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    • OsFanSinceThe80s
      Adley Rutschman 2024

      By OsFanSinceThe80s · Posted

      When you’re above average in almost every other batting metric you can get away with a slower bat.
    • O's84
      Adley Rutschman 2024

      By O's84 · Posted

      OPS up to .859
    • SteveA
      Brandon Hyde 2024

      By SteveA · Posted

      Well, we know some reasons he did some of these things, and knowing the reasons might not mean we agree with them but a rational person might at least consider them rather than dismissing them as awful moves out of hand:    1) The backup C is going to play quite a few games.   That's just a fact.  Would be nice if we had a better backup C (but a lot of MLB teams are in the same boat).   But we don't.  McCann has started 17 out of 41 games, perhaps a bit more than you would expect, but he is going to get his starts and complaining about every time it happens and considering it a horrible move is just silly.       2) We now know that Hays' calf was bothering him.   Hyde said he would have started Mullins otherwise.    3) Losing the DH was part of it.   But also part of it was that if we pinch hit O'Hearn, they had the lefty Mayza ready, and O'Hearn has terrible #s vs lefties.   And maybe Hyde was also aware of Santander's sore knee and knew he might have to save O'Hearn to replace him in RF, because at this point we had already used most of the rest of our bench.    4) Bunting in the first place -- an act of desperation to some extent because we have been so horrible recently scoring runs other than via the HR; and McCann actually does have some experience bunting and has succeeded in the past.   Bunting with 2 strikes -- if Hyde was telling the truth in the press conference, McCann did that on his own so Hyde can't be blamed, other than for allowing a player the latitude to make such a decision in the first place.  (And Santander might have been safe anyway).   5) I got nothing on this one.   I have a hard time justifying Urias for Stowers.   That is the one move that I simply agree was bad. So there is at least some rational justification for four of the five things you describe as awful/brutal, etc. And he did some good things in this game:    1) He went out of character to some extent and allowed relievers who were being effective (Baumann, Perez) to go more than one inning.   We managed to cover 5 relief innings with just 4 guys, usually Hyde averages more than one reliever per inning by making too many changes.   And the pen gave up 1 hit and no runs in those 5 innings.       2) He shook up the order a bit vs a left, moved Westburg to the top of the lineup, Gunnar to cleanup.
    • George Zuverink
      This offensive style is not sustainable

      By George Zuverink · Posted

      Every pitch except fastballs down the middle with two strikes and a man on third  in the bottom of the ninth trailing by a run.
    • OsFanInOhio
      Adley Rutschman 2024

      By OsFanInOhio · Posted

      I feel like the whole team is, and I could be wrong, but I would guess it is an intentional strategy the organization implemented this year.  Made a similar comment in another thread. The whole team has a combined ops that is the same as last year (.740) despite extremely subpar play from hays/mullins/santander and Holliday (tho that was just 30 at bats) in spite of a decreased OBP across the team. So we are performing approximately par with last year despite terrible play from our outfield due to being more aggressive and doing more damage with the pitches we can drive. 
    • Philip
      Wednesday afternoon May 15: Orioles vs Blue Jay

      By Philip · Posted

    • OsFanSinceThe80s
      Hays and Santander -- nicked up?

      By OsFanSinceThe80s · Posted

      Elias and Hyde to that suggestion:

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