Your favorite Bad Orioles Team roster

[DirtyBird]

Taylor Teagarden has been overlooked so far

[Beef Supreme]

1 hour ago, mdbdotcom said:

LF Jeff Stone - Finished that for you.

I thought of Stone. But he wasn’t likeable.

[rudyrooster]

Can't  believe that RP Kevin Gregg's name has not  been mentioned yet.  What a disaster that guy was.

[Hallas]

Tony Batista, David Newhan.

I have a thing for weird stances.  Batista looks like he never saw a single game of baseball in his life until he hit the majors and somehow started hitting anyway.

I remember Newhan going on his power surge, as a 5'10" 170 lb son of a writer.  IIRC one of his home runs went like 465 feet and was the longest home run hit by an Oriole that season.

[Can_of_corn]

3 minutes ago, rudyrooster said:

Can't  believe that RP Kevin Gregg's name has not  been mentioned yet.  What a disaster that guy was.

He was too good (just not for the O's).

 

[interloper]

Mike Gonzalez.

[Beef Supreme]

Texas Mike Smith

Mississippi Mike Smith

[Just Regular]

I browsed the teams since '79 - start of my memory - for worst OPS+ by whomever B-Ref deemed the team's starter.  Some good players here of course, but those results were:

C - Fordyce '01 - 59 OPS+

1B - Davis '18 - 49 OPS+ (very few poor season candidates mostly thanks to Eddie and Raffy)

2B - B. Ripken '91 - 46 OPS+ or B. Ripken '88 - 48 OPS+   (was he a credible player at all?)

SS - Castro '08 - 43 OPS+  (a year in which he led team with 166 PA - it seems we managed to go an entire season SS-less).

3B - Rayford '86 - 47 OPS+

LF - DeShields '01 - 69 OPS+

CF - Devereaux '94 - 48 OPS+

RF - Hammonds '95 - 66 OPS+

DH - Singleton '84 - 62 OPS+ (wow, did his career fall off a cliff)

 

[Frobby]

2 hours ago, rudyrooster said:

Can't  believe that RP Kevin Gregg's name has not  been mentioned yet.  What a disaster that guy was.

Who would consider him one of their favorites?    This isn’t a list of the worst Orioles, just bad players who people liked.    Almost nobody liked Gregg.

[Frobby]

13 minutes ago, OrioleDog said:

I browsed the teams since '79 - start of my memory - for worst OPS+ by whomever B-Ref deemed the team's starter.  Some good players here of course, but those results were:

C - Fordyce '01 - 59 OPS+

1B - Davis '18 - 49 OPS+ (very few poor season candidates mostly thanks to Eddie and Raffy)

2B - B. Ripken '91 - 46 OPS+ or B. Ripken '88 - 48 OPS+   (was he a credible player at all?)

SS - Castro '08 - 43 OPS+  (a year in which he led team with 166 PA - it seems we managed to go an entire season SS-less).

3B - Rayford '86 - 47 OPS+

LF - DeShields '01 - 69 OPS+

CF - Devereaux '94 - 48 OPS+

RF - Hammonds '95 - 66 OPS+

DH - Singleton '84 - 62 OPS+ (wow, did his career fall off a cliff)

 

Wow, is that abysmal.    However, the list does include some players who were good at one time.    

I read today that the worst WAR season of all time was -4.0 by Jerry Royster in 1977.    He had a 46 OPS+ and was 25 runs below average in the field as well.    But somehow, he played another 11 years after that, accruing 2.4 WAR in a 16-year career.
 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

C - Taylor Teagarden

1B - Chris Richard

2B - Billy Ripken

3B - Tony Batista

SS - Manny Alexander

LF - Felix Pie

CF - Luis Matos

RF - Jay Gibbons

DH - Larry Sheets

SP - Dave Johnson

RP - Jorge Julio

 

[Beef Supreme]

1 hour ago, OrioleDog said:

DH - Singleton '84 - 62 OPS+ (wow, did his career fall off a cliff)

Singleton had turned 37 during that final 1984 season. Probably why his career fell "off a cliff."

btw: Singleton had 10 straight hits in 1981, setting the major league record.

[bobmc]

2 hours ago, OrioleDog said:

I browsed the teams since '79 - start of my memory - for worst OPS+ by whomever B-Ref deemed the team's starter.  Some good players here of course, but those results were:

C - Fordyce '01 - 59 OPS+

1B - Davis '18 - 49 OPS+ (very few poor season candidates mostly thanks to Eddie and Raffy)

2B - B. Ripken '91 - 46 OPS+ or B. Ripken '88 - 48 OPS+   (was he a credible player at all?)

SS - Castro '08 - 43 OPS+  (a year in which he led team with 166 PA - it seems we managed to go an entire season SS-less).

3B - Rayford '86 - 47 OPS+

LF - DeShields '01 - 69 OPS+

CF - Devereaux '94 - 48 OPS+

RF - Hammonds '95 - 66 OPS+

DH - Singleton '84 - 62 OPS+ (wow, did his career fall off a cliff)

 

Dang straight he was!

[NCRaven]

RP Terry Mathews

[tntoriole]

I will go back to my earliest teams...65-70....which will be a challenge given how good they were

 

RF...Sam Bowens....sleepy Sam was not good at the plate or in the field  OPS .495 in 1965 and hit .210 in 1966. 

OF/2b...Woodie Held...perhaps the worst utility guy in Os history...OPS of .578..

C Larry Haney...backup 1966-68...thank God Elrod came along.   
 

SS Bobby Floyd ...whoooo brother...he made Belanger look like Big Stick.   68-69...seemed like he always got a start when I went...

P Bill Dillman...1967 was an awful downer year after 1966...Frank was out after running his head into Al Weis’s knee...Palmer was sorearmed, Wally Bunker regressed as did Dave McNally...and they brought this guy up for his only big league season.. and, again, it seemed like he pitched whenever I went. 

 

Gene Brabender...OK..he was actually a pretty good reliever for us for several years...We traded him to Seattle Pilots who moved to Milwaukee and they made him a starter and his arm went south...We got Chico Salmon in trade...but really I always include Brabender just because a 12 year old boy and his adolescent buddies always liked his name....lol.