The 'Piling On' Department

[Frobby]

3 hours ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

The 2016 Orioles attempted 32 stolen bases which has to be the lowest total in team history.

So I got curious which team stole the fewest bases in major league history.    Turns out to be the 1957 Washington Senators, who stole only 13 bases while getting caught 38 times.    So, they attempted at lot more steals than the 2016 Orioles, they just were incredibly unsuccessful.  

Apparently there were a lot of years where there were no official caught stealing stats, so it’s not really possible to say which team attempted the fewest steals in major league history.    For example, the 1949 Cardinals set the NL record for fewest steals, with 17, but there is no record of how many times they were caught stealing.  So, maybe they attempted fewer than 32 steals, and maybe not.   

However, the 1960 Kansas City Athletics attempted only 29 steals in a 154-game season.    The Orioles’ 32 attempts stands as the record low for a 162 game season.

[NCRaven]

1 hour ago, atomic said:

Villar has 12, Gentry 12, Peterson 11, Jones 8 and Machado 7.   

So in a month and a half, he has tied for the team lead.

[Frobby]

12 minutes ago, NCRaven said:

So in a month and a half, he has tied for the team lead.

Yes.   His playing time in that period has been similar to what Gentry got in total in the five months up to his release.    

[TonySoprano]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

Yes.   His playing time in that period has been similar to what Gentry got in total in the five months up to his release.    

O's pre-ASB 34/45 (23rd in SB, 5 in SB%)
Villar 12/14
Rest of O's post ASB*  19/25

* Jones 6/6
Rickard 3/5
Gentry 2/2
Andreoli 2/2
Peterson 2/3
Mullins 1/3
Valera 1/1
Davis 1/1
Joseph 1/1
Beckham 0/1

 

[TonySoprano]

I guess it's too much to ask of ESPN to actually do research as opposed to lazy writing.
NYY vs. BAL 10-8
NYY vs TOR 13-6 

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The Yankees do lead the A's by 1½ games, but really it's a 2½-game edge. The teams split six games, so the next tiebreaker is intradivision record. The Yankees are 35-28 versus the AL East and the A's are 33-34 versus the West, so if the teams end up with the same record, the A's are likely headed to the Bronx. Thanks, Baltimore.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24707180/mlb-guide-last-two-weeks-regular-season

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, TonySoprano said:

I guess it's too much to ask of ESPN to actually do research as opposed to lazy writing.
NYY vs. BAL 10-8
NYY vs TOR 13-6 

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24707180/mlb-guide-last-two-weeks-regular-season

The Yankees are 10-6 against us, not 10-8.    We’ll see how it goes this weekend.   

[OFFNY]

On 9/17/2018 at 7:15 PM, TonySoprano said:

 

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The Yankees do lead the A's by 1½ games, but really it's a 2½-game edge. The teams split six games, so the next tiebreaker is intradivision record. The Yankees are 35-28 versus the AL East and the A's are 33-34 versus the West, so if the teams end up with the same record, the A's are likely headed to the Bronx. Thanks, Baltimore.

 

 

I guess it's too much to ask of ESPN to actually do research as opposed to lazy writing.
 

NYY vs. BAL 10-6
 

NYY vs TOR 13-6 

 

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24707180/mlb-guide-last-two-weeks-regular-season

 

o

Exactly.

If anything, the Red Sox should be saying "Thank you" to the Orioles ........ by beating the Yankees 6 out of 12 times in their first 4 series against each other, the Orioles contributed significantly to making the division title a cakewalk for the Red Sox. If the Yankees had taken care of business against one of the worst teams in recent history (by winning 10 out of those first 12 games against the Orioles), the race for the AL East division title probably would have been much more interesting than it was.

 

o

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/sports/baltimore-orioles.amp.html

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

Three of the top four players leading the Orioles in WAR are no longer with the team:  Machado, Gausman and Schoop.The other is Bleier who hasn't pitched in a game since June 13th. 

[OFFNY]

On 9/21/2018 at 11:37 PM, OFFNY said:

o

Exactly.

If anything, the Red Sox should be saying "Thank you" to the Orioles ........ by beating the Yankees 6 out of 12 times in their first 4 series against each other, the Orioles contributed significantly to making the division title a cakewalk for the Red Sox. If the Yankees had taken care of business against one of the worst teams in recent history (by winning 10 out of those first 12 games against the Orioles), the race for the AL East division title probably would have been much more interesting than it was.

 

o

o

 

The Orioles beat the Yankees in the Bronx this afternoon, in the season-series finale.

They won 7 games from the Yankees overall, including a 5-4 record at Yankee Stadium.

 

You're welcome to the Red Sox for your easy ride to the division title, and you're welcome to the Athletics for helping them try to catch the Yankees for home-field advantage in the Wildcard playoff game ........ from one of the worst Major League baseball teams in recent memory.

 

o

[TonySoprano]

 

[Camden_yardbird]

On 9/16/2018 at 9:03 PM, tntoriole said:

Double AA Angels affiliate is moving from Mobile to Madison AL and will be ...wait for it....Rocket City Trash Pandas

 

I am wondering how many people here really get the full awesomeness of that name for that city.

[Camden_yardbird]

The real question is, if there was actually a balanced schedule...

[foxfield]

If the Orioles simply finish 63 games out, they will obliterate the record by over 20%. 

1 minute ago, Camden_yardbird said:

The real question is, if there was actually a balanced schedule...

This is the real question.  Personally, I think the Oriole season should come with an asterisk.

It's unfair that the Orioles are saddled with this.  I mean first off as everyone knows they have to play the Redsox and the Yankees 19 times each.  If there were a balanced schedule, the Orioles would not play 19 games against the Yankees.  Therefore, obviously they would play one of the other 28 teams they have a worse record against. So obviously, this record is manipulated cause the Orioles get to play not just 19 games against the Yankees, but 9 games in OPAYS.  Oriole Park  @ Yankee Stadium, where the O's have dominated.  The record is tainted and unnatural.

Of course, on the other hand, the Orioles have had to play so many games in cold weather, the Yankees wouldn't matter.  The Orioles are a warm weather team built on and for the MLB of the Global Warming Age.  That this event hasn't unfolded in the exact timeframe as expected resulted in a cataclysmic result for the Baltimore Orioles of 2018. It is a shame, that so far at least, baseball has failed to recognize this "fact".

[TonySoprano]

9 minutes ago, foxfield said:

Of course, on the other hand, the Orioles have had to play so many games in cold weather, the Yankees wouldn't matter.  The Orioles are a warm weather team built on and for the MLB of the Global Warming Age. 

"Baltimore is the toughest city to play anywhere I ever played for 24 years in the major leagues. You have to prepare yourself differently here. If you don't prepare yourself more than other teams prepare on the west coast or such this...you leave yourself open to a lot of injuries.  You go down to Spring training you have to deal with the hot humid and most spring trainings are very much so. Once every five or six years you get a cool one like we did….you start to get yourself into game condition and all of the sudden you come to Baltimore and it’s very raw, and very cold. The muscles start to to tighten up and it’s very simple you break out of the batter’s box and you get the soft dirt up here from the winter time you can pull a muscle, strain a hamstring, strain a quad, pull a hip or whatever they do and it’s very simple to do from home to first or first to third or something like that. And then all of the sudden, there is no transition period here in Baltimore, when you go from cold all of the sudden in the course of one or two days, it’s hot, it’s humid, it’s not even summertime. Now you have to deal with it again, your body loses the salt, and your muscles start to cramp up again" - Meteorologist Rick Dempsey, June 2010