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Sometimes baseball is just too damn predictable. With about 4 percent of the season in the books, the Orioles are rolling along pretty much as we'd all expected: solid starting pitching, shaky relief work, not much power (tied for 24th in MLB in HRS, 26th in SLG), scratching for runs as a result, putting the bat on the ball (tied for second fewest batting Ks), Seth Smith, Castillo and Davis leading the team in BA, and erratic defense with a porous and unreliable infield. All adding up to .667 baseball (a 108-win clip) and first place in the division.   :confused:

Strange game, isn't it? 

(Before someone else mentions it, we are last in walks drawn.)

 

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10 minutes ago, spiritof66 said:

Sometimes baseball is just too damn predictable. With about 4 percent of the season in the books, the Orioles are rolling along pretty much as we'd all expected: solid starting pitching, shaky relief work, not much power (tied for 24th in MLB in HRS, 26th in SLG), scratching for runs as a result, putting the bat on the ball (tied for second fewest batting Ks), Seth Smith, Castillo and Davis leading the team in BA, and erratic defense with a porous and unreliable infield. All adding up to .667 baseball (a 108-win clip) and first place in the division.   :confused:

Strange game, isn't it? 

(Before someone else mentions it, we are last in walks drawn.)

At least something is going according to expectations!

 

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40 minutes ago, spiritof66 said:

Sometimes baseball is just too damn predictable. With about 4 percent of the season in the books, the Orioles are rolling along pretty much as we'd all expected: solid starting pitching, shaky relief work, not much power (tied for 24th in MLB in HRS, 26th in SLG), scratching for runs as a result, putting the bat on the ball (tied for second fewest batting Ks), Seth Smith, Castillo and Davis leading the team in BA, and erratic defense with a porous and unreliable infield. All adding up to .667 baseball (a 108-win clip) and first place in the division.   :confused:

Strange game, isn't it? 

(Before someone else mentions it, we are last in walks drawn.)

 

It's way too early though. They'll be getting better. 

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4 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

Gentry stinks. I hope he doesn't become one of "Buck's Guys" and stick around the entire season, based on a good spring. 

Get rid of him and bring up Mullins.

The team will not carry a small pen for the rest of the season.

Once they need that 5th starter on a regular basis, somebody is gone, and Gentry just well might be that body.

 

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15 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

Gentry stinks. I hope he doesn't become one of "Buck's Guys" and stick around the entire season, based on a good spring. 

Get rid of him and bring up Mullins.

This may be the most reactionary thing I've ever read on this site.   

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2 hours ago, Frobby said:

This may be the most reactionary thing I've ever read on this site.   

Oh, come on.  I'm sure we've had threads advocating for the release of players before the Orioles even signed them.  There were folks saying the Orioles would never have any winning seasons during the current decade in years where they won playoff series.

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5 hours ago, Redskins Rick said:

The team will not carry a small pen for the rest of the season.

Once they need that 5th starter on a regular basis, somebody is gone, and Gentry just well might be that body.

 

Yes, he might be the one who's Bourne-out.

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On 4/12/2017 at 1:24 PM, Frobby said:

This may be the most reactionary thing I've ever read on this site.   

I would normally agree with you...SSS, yada yada yada.

But Gentry looks B.A.D. thus far and has not been a positive WAR player since 2014. I'll concede that it's early, but my eye-test says he's a liability.

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