Who are your candidates for a career year in 2018?

[El Gordo]

I forgot a dark horse. The Sisco Kid.

[joelala]

Joey Rickard

[Diehard_O's_Fan]

Caleb Joseph. This is his team now. Austin Hays, Kevin Gausman, Dylan Bundy, Trey Mancini, and Manny Machado.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

35 minutes ago, joelala said:

Joey Rickard

 

 

 

[Il BuonO]

Arrieta ?

Bundy

O’Day

Machado

 

[sportsfan8703]

Going with the main guys here, but it’s who I see having “career” years. 

Manny

Bundy

Gausman

[weams]

9 hours ago, Frobby said:

Who do you think has a career year in 2018?     By my definition, a career year is the best year the player has had to that point in his career, excluding rookie seasons.   And, it has to be a pretty good year on an objective basis (I’m not interested in Ryan Flaherty’s best year).    By that definition, here’s some recent history of Oriole career years (by rWAR):

2012 - Adam Jones, Chris Davis, Jason Hammel, Miguel Gonzalez, Jim Johnson, Darren O’Day

2013 - Adam Jones, Chris Davis, Manny Machado, Chris Tillman

2014 - Adam Jones, Steve Pearce, Nelson Cruz, Zach Britton

2015 - Manny Machado, Caleb Joseph, Wei-Yin Chen, Zach Britton,  Darren O’Day, Brad Brach

2016 - Jonathan Schoop, Kevin Gausman, Chris Tillman, Zach Britton

2017 - Jonathan Schoop, Tim Beckham, Dylan Bundy, Mychal Givens 

Who do you like for 2018?   I’d say the best bets are Trey Mancini, Dylan Bundy, Kevin Gausman and maybe Tim Beckham.   And hopefully Miguel Castro.   

Add Adam and I agree with your list. 

[TommyPickles]

Kevin Gausman 

 

[mdbdotcom]

Unless our starting pitching improves dramatically, I expect Giancarlo Stanton will have a career year.

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, weams said:

Add Adam and I agree with your list. 

 

[MDtransplant757]

Bundy, Beckham, Gausman, Sisco, Machado, Givens

[jamalshw]

12 hours ago, Lucky_13 said:

Beckham, Bundy, Gausman and dark horse of the century Mr. Mike Wright 

I actually think Wright is a possibility if the Orioles finally give up on the idea of using him as a starter and let him go to the bullpen and focus on two pitches and just go an inning at a time. I think he's stuff can play in that role. He could easily be a Tommy Hunter in the pen. While that's not elite, it's a useful piece--or trade chip if he can establish value in that role (and we just saw him get a nice little contract with Philly).

[rudyrooster]

15 hours ago, El Gordo said:

I think both Trumbo and Davis bounce back somewhat but not career years. I look for Mancini to suffer a bit from sophomore jinx.

Agreed.  My votes are for Beckham and Bundy.

[theocean]

59 minutes ago, rudyrooster said:

Agreed.  My votes are for Beckham and Bundy.

I agree with you. I think Bundy will turn a corner and Beckham seems poised to have a big year.