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It isn't always easy to capture statistically, but part of the makings of an Oriole killer are the situations in which you inflict your damage.  Ibanez' homeruns in Game 3 were like stakes in the heart.  You tend to remember those because they are so painful.  If we also want to explore the death from within angle, we would be hard pressed to find a bigger internal Oriole killer than Armando Benitez.  20+ years later and I still can't look at any footage with him in it. 

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Speaking of sluggers, I always dreaded going up against Jason Giambi.  That guy flat out eviscerated this team over the course of his career, though I think I'm mostly biased because he was the reason Randy Myers blew one save in 1997.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/split_stats.cgi?full=1&params=oppon|BAL|giambja01|bat|AB|

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OK I knew it was bad with JD Martinez but I didn't realize it was this bad until I ran the numbers.  It was so bad I had to do an integrity check just to make sure my spreadsheet was working.  In 29 games, he has 12 homers and 32 RBI against us.  So extrapolating it out to 162-game averages:

Against everyone other than the O's: BA .286, HR 32, RBI 100

Against Os: BA .327, HR 67, RBI 179

Granderson's 95 game sample was much more significant, but this is still insane. 

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3 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I don't think that is likely at all.

I don't think a guy with his size and skill set has much of a chance to make it to 40.

I think he'll be a menace for the next 10 years or so.  Yes, he is big but he's also in really good shape and a good athlete.

.280/.400/.550+ for that guy year in, year out isn't unreasonable.

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A lot of the players mentioned previously certainly count, but a lot of those guys were just really good players anyway.

I always think of a guy like Rajai Davis - looking at his numbers against us they're not great, but I swear that guy always makes a big defensive play or steals a base or gets a big hit against us.

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1 hour ago, Frobby said:

 

He surely killed us in the 2012 playoffs.    Ironically, he’d never had much success against the O’s other than that — he was a career .220/.293/.378 hitter against us in his career.

Sadly, Ibanez made a lasting impression when it really counted. 

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