And why are the Orioles losing?

[TouchemAll]

There ya go per Steve Melewski the definition of Baseball UGLY That's just pitiful.

AL East runs per game average in home games:

7.6 - Boston
6.8 - New York
6.7 - Toronto
4.5 - Tampa Bay
1.9 - Baltimore

The ultimate Black hole lineup.

Tim Beckham .175
Pedro Álvarez .200
Chris Davis .164
Danny Valencia .138
Anthony Santander .161
Craig Gentry .189

Adam Jones .239 Honorable Mention as the leader of this group

Caleb Joseph It's to ugly to list

The Orioles are batting just .176/.256/.285 in 10 home games.

 

[Three Run Homer]

They have scored 3 runs or fewer in 16 of 23 games so far, and they are 2-14 in those games; interestingly, they scored 3 or fewer runs in 20 out of 28 games during their closing 7-21 stretch last season, so one can argue that this season's malaise is just a carry over from the end of last season. 

They are routinely running out lineups with 5 or 6 guys hitting below .200.  Some of these guys are just in slumps, but I don't see Joseph, Davis or Santander climbing over .200 this season.   

[Frobby]

The shame of it is, we’ve wasted some pretty good starting pitching performances, like yesterday’s.   We’re actually fourth best in the AL in quality starts, with 10.

[Tony-OH]

This team scores most of its runs off home runs. The ball flies father when the weather is warmer and muggier. It's little surprised that the one dimensional offense that was put together is not scoring runs in this cold April. That's what happens when you relie on one type of thing to score. Teams that build a balanced offense built around OBP tend to have more consistent offensive outputs throughout the season. 

But, this is what happens when you know you are one dimensional, but sign more of those guys to fill out your roster. To add fuel to the fire, the top hitting prospects Hays, Mountcastle, and Mullins are more of the same. Only Sisco and Stewart have a different approaches among the top hitting prospects.

[Aglets]

3 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

This team scores most of its runs off home runs. The ball flies father when the weather is warmer and muggier. It's little surprised that the one dimensional offense that was put together is not scoring runs in this cold April. That's what happens when you relie on one type of thing to score. Teams that build a balanced offense built around OBP tend to have more consistent offensive outputs throughout the season. 

But, this is what happens when you know you are one dimensional, but sign more of those guys to fill out your roster. To add fuel to the fire, the top hitting prospects Hays, Mountcastle, and Mullins are more of the same. Only Sisco and Stewart have a different approaches among the top hitting prospects.

But doesn't it make you feel better that Duquette would enter every offseason since 2012 telling the fans that he was going to make OBP a priority?

[TouchemAll]

27 minutes ago, Frobby said:

The shame of it is, we’ve wasted some pretty good starting pitching performances, like yesterday’s.   We’re actually fourth best in the AL in quality starts, with 10.

Agree

[Frobby]

3 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

This team scores most of its runs off home runs. The ball flies father when the weather is warmer and muggier. It's little surprised that the one dimensional offense that was put together is not scoring runs in this cold April. That's what happens when you relie on one type of thing to score. Teams that build a balanced offense built around OBP tend to have more consistent offensive outputs throughout the season. 

But, this is what happens when you know you are one dimensional, but sign more of those guys to fill out your roster. To add fuel to the fire, the top hitting prospects Hays, Mountcastle, and Mullins are more of the same. Only Sisco and Stewart have a different approaches among the top hitting prospects.

There’s some truth to what you say, but the problem runs a lot deeper than not hitting homers.   The K rate is way up, BA and OBP way down.    BABIP is 19 points below league average, so maybe some bad luck mixed in too.  

We’ve also faced a lot of good pitchers.    Usually I wouldn’t make that excuse, but consider:

Houston 2.21 team ERA

Cleveland 2.57 team ERA

Boston 2.75 team ERA

Detroit, Toronto and Boston are more pedestrian, but all a bit better than league average.    Only Minnesota is below average so far (9th).    

So, while there’s no denying that we rely a lot on homers and haven’t been hitting many (23 in 23 games, tied for 11th in HR/G), there’s a lot of other things going on.    

[Going Underground]

11 minutes ago, Frobby said:

There’s some truth to what you say, but the problem runs a lot deeper than not hitting homers.   The K rate is way up, BA and OBP way down.    BABIP is 19 points below league average, so maybe some bad luck mixed in too.  

We’ve also faced a lot of good pitchers.    Usually I wouldn’t make that excuse, but consider:

Houston 2.21 team ERA

Cleveland 2.57 team ERA

Boston 2.75 team ERA

Detroit, Toronto and Boston are more pedestrian, but all a bit better than league average.    Only Minnesota is below average so far (9th).    

So, while there’s no denying that we rely a lot on homers and haven’t been hitting many (23 in 23 games, tied for 11th in HR/G), there’s a lot of other things going on.    

So this year ,Orioles have faced tough pitching and weather.Last year at the end it was they fell out of the race and played sloppy and lackluster.Pitching collapsed.Orioles have had one winning month since last April.

September 2017- 7-20

So far in April- 5-16

Has one game they lost in October last year.1-1 in March this year.

[Aristotelian]

We pretty much have it all. Hitting, bullpen, defense, baserunning, we've pretty much covered every way to lose.  

Poor offense is also contagious. When you play from behind, you get all the opposing team's elite relievers, making it even more difficult to score runs. We saw that last night. Houston, NYY, CLE, these teams all have great bullpens. You just can't play from behind, even when your pitching keeps you in the game. Losing breeds losing.

Injuries haven't helped. Schoop was key to our offense last year. Beckham played a big role and he has not been the same, possibly playing through injuries. Right now it is Manny and 8 other guys.

 

[Can_of_corn]

46 minutes ago, Aglets said:

But doesn't it make you feel better that Duquette would enter every offseason since 2012 telling the fans that he was going to make OBP a priority?

Did he even bother last offseason?  I forget.

[Redskins Rick]

54 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

This team scores most of its runs off home runs. The ball flies father when the weather is warmer and muggier. It's little surprised that the one dimensional offense that was put together is not scoring runs in this cold April. That's what happens when you relie on one type of thing to score. Teams that build a balanced offense built around OBP tend to have more consistent offensive outputs throughout the season. 

But, this is what happens when you know you are one dimensional, but sign more of those guys to fill out your roster. To add fuel to the fire, the top hitting prospects Hays, Mountcastle, and Mullins are more of the same. Only Sisco and Stewart have a different approaches among the top hitting prospects.

You make sense.

But, this team was in first place at this point last year, and the weather seamed to be about the same.

[Matt Bennett]

In short, because the Orioles aren't particularly good at producing runs or preventing runs.

One reason: Good teams finish their off-season finding depth. Duquette finishes our off-season by filling out the actual rotation/line-up.

When a Redsox infielder gets hurt, they have Eduardo Nunez to fill in. We have Luis Sardinas. When an Astros SP gets hurt, they have Collin McHugh to fill in. We have Mike Wright. When a Yankees outfielder gets hurt, they have Aaron Hicks to fill in. We have a Rule V OF who hasn't played above A+ ball.

[osfan83]

1 hour ago, Tony-OH said:

This team scores most of its runs off home runs. The ball flies father when the weather is warmer and muggier. It's little surprised that the one dimensional offense that was put together is not scoring runs in this cold April. That's what happens when you relie on one type of thing to score. Teams that build a balanced offense built around OBP tend to have more consistent offensive outputs throughout the season. 

But, this is what happens when you know you are one dimensional, but sign more of those guys to fill out your roster. To add fuel to the fire, the top hitting prospects Hays, Mountcastle, and Mullins are more of the same. Only Sisco and Stewart have a different approaches among the top hitting prospects.

Maybe it will be over 90 everyday in August and we will go 26-2

[LookitsPuck]

1 hour ago, Tony-OH said:

This team scores most of its runs off home runs. The ball flies father when the weather is warmer and muggier. It's little surprised that the one dimensional offense that was put together is not scoring runs in this cold April. That's what happens when you relie on one type of thing to score. Teams that build a balanced offense built around OBP tend to have more consistent offensive outputs throughout the season. 

But, this is what happens when you know you are one dimensional, but sign more of those guys to fill out your roster. To add fuel to the fire, the top hitting prospects Hays, Mountcastle, and Mullins are more of the same. Only Sisco and Stewart have a different approaches among the top hitting prospects.

All of this plus power doesn't age well (Jones, Davis, Joseph, etc.).

[DirtyBird]

1 hour ago, Tony-OH said:

But, this is what happens when you know you are one dimensional, but sign more of those guys to fill out your roster. To add fuel to the fire, the top hitting prospects Hays, Mountcastle, and Mullins are more of the same. Only Sisco and Stewart have a different approaches among the top hitting prospects.

Bring up McKenna while he is hot