Are the O's turning a corner?

[Too Tall]

They've turned a corner. Trouble, in my opinion,  it's the corner heading back down the ladder. A team that was fun to watch for a while is now awful. Someone please pick me up - I'm headed to "the dark side!"  I fear a real long losing streak to bring even the optimists here back to reality. I HOPE I AM WRONG!!!!!!!!

[tntoriole]

In answer to the OP, .. no. 

[AlbNYfan]

Turn the Corner?? I don't rant (usually). The game is simple, both teams get 27 outs.  Today's game, it was 27 outs vs 18. The O's need to play smart. Hayes sliding into first with two outs is DUMB baseball. I remember Earl talking about Fred Lynn crashing into a wall to make a play..Earl said something to the effect...you might make a great play, you crash and get injured and you are out for days. Rest???,  19 games in 18 days?? Play the game. I will NEVER say anyone in MLB sucks. I will say there are many that are looking for a last payday...I don't care for them on the roster.

[sportsfan8703]

The GM does not care about fixing the day to day problem with the mlb roster. When you’re batting Ramon Urias 4th in your 4th year with the franchise it speaks alot. 
 

DD was great at day to to day roster management to help the big club. Elias has 4 years of just collecting draft picks and tanking. Where does this get us?

[foxfield]

Is it too late to get on the wagon?

 

 

Too soon?

[NelsonCruuuuuz]

Oh no we suck again!

https://youtu.be/v4jGSvxCRp4

[gretzkyscores]

No. They have not turned the corner. Four years and counting.

[foxfield]

The answer is the same.  This is the exact same team that looked very good against St. Louis and Minn.  It also is the same team that stranded 6000 runners last night without plating one.  This is a much improved team that has holes.  It's ability to win 67 games (15 game improvement) or more will depend on minimizing poor streaks.  In the meantime, the last two days are a reminder that winning 7 of 10 is a nice stretch, but the season is 162 games.

My answer was and still is, that we have begun the climb from the bottom and that it is still a very long way to the top.

[Just Regular]

The Stars and Scrubs rundown, on the doorstep of perhaps pushing a 2-week average around 2 runs/game.

OPS+ 

Stars (lightly used in most cases): Hays 139, Mullins 130, Santander 119, Mancini 113, Mountcastle 107

Jorge Mateo 95, Ramon Urias 62 (on aggregate maybe not far from what I'd figured for this pair) 

Scrubs: Odor 62, Chirinos 41

Its a thin crust of goodish players even when they all clock in.    

Not that a catcher needs to have a 100 OPS+, but just simple math catcher performance team impact neutralizes all of Hays-Santander's nice LF/RF work to start the year.