Elias expects hitting to be good and pitching to struggle

[Sports Guy]

9 hours ago, NelsonCruuuuuz said:

Huh? He literally is the only reason we have any offense minus the average. 

He has a 592 OPS, which is 5 points lower than the team OPS of 597.

Santander leads the team with an 895 OPS.  The next highest is Mountcastle…677.

Mancini has been hitting the ball well and has been hitting into a lot of bad luck.

But outside of Santander, everyone has sucked so far production wise.

[Sports Guy]

 

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, Sports Guy said:

 

He’s been robbed of two doubles on great catches, one by the Brewers CF Tyrone Taylor the other day and one by Yankees LF Locastro yesterday.   Both those balls were smoked.   

[Just Regular]

On 4/13/2022 at 10:15 PM, glenn__davis said:

In fairness they've faced 2 really good pitching staffs and had a TON of loud outs.  I think the bats have been a bit better than the results have shown.  That RISP number will turn. 

Savant is giving early 2022 numbers now, and Orioles are Bottom Five at actual wOBA lagging xwOBA.

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/expected_statistics?type=batter-team&year=2022&position=&team=&min=q&sort=11&sortDir=desc

I've enjoyed seeing Orioles pitching hold its own against Brewers and Yankees pitching, and hopeful the Bats will give them a few runs to work with in Oakland.    Maybe not tonight so much with Montas, but overall I feel Marcos Diplan and all we're better than them this week.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

Only nine games into the season, but the results so far:

Team OPS+ 78

Team ERA+ 144

[Camden_yardbird]

How many ST ABs did everyone get, 40ish?  I remember hearing from hitters in the past that it takes about 100 combined ABs in ST and the beginning of the season to get in the groove.  Given a short ST guys are probably two weeks behind.

[Frobby]

4 hours ago, Camden_yardbird said:

How many ST ABs did everyone get, 40ish?  I remember hearing from hitters in the past that it takes about 100 combined ABs in ST and the beginning of the season to get in the groove.  Given a short ST guys are probably two weeks behind.

What about the other 29 teams in the league?   78 OPS+ is relative to the other teams.   Tied for last in runs per game is relative to other teams.   They all had the same short spring training.  

[Sports Guy]

17 teams have a sub 700 OPS and 12 are sub 670.

Last year, in the month of April, 5 teams were sub 700 and no one was under 670.

 

Obviously a long ways to go for the month for these numbers to catch up but the early indications are the batters are behind the pitchers after missing so much time.

[NelsonCruuuuuz]

Elias nailed another one! Bats are scorching!

[Pushmonkey]

Man these bats are scorching hot. 

[connja]

But seriously.....what in the actual f is ogoing on with this pitching?

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

Elias is no Nostradamus. 

[Moose Milligan]

Mike Elias is George Costanza.

One of my favorite theories on life:

 

 

 

 

[Can_of_corn]

I want to know why they keep pinch hitting with a defensive replacement.

[Sports Guy]

17 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I want to know why they keep pinch hitting with a defensive replacement.

That’s what happens when your FO doesn’t care about wins and set the team as is.