O's have the best offense in the AL to begin May

[wildcard]

O's  293 average,  448 Slugging pct,  791 OPS leads the AL through 8 games in May.

https://www.mlb.com/orioles/stats/team/american-league?split=5

[Natty]

We're #1! 

[connja]

Its actually amazing.  Considering the pitching we are getting, we may be under performing from W/L perspective!

[Just Regular]

Right now it might be a miscalibrated scale as xwOBA I believe thinks a batted ball at 102 mph and 30 degree launch angle is probably a HR and batted balls like that are becoming Outs a lot these days, but FWIW

Today xwOBA sees the BAL offense 16th MLB-wide (actual wOBA 22nd).

Today xwOBA sees the BAL pitching 28th MLB-wide (actual wOBA 22nd, there perhaps with an assist from tall walls and/or the 2022 baseball).    Spenser Watkins, Paul Fry, Travis Lakins and worse have thrown just over 20% of the Team Innings while Better Pitchers are figuring out how to stay up when they get up.

Fielding team OAA 29th, still very near MLB-worst.

Just like Elias said, the hitting should be okay but we know we're short on pitching

[wildcard]

17 minutes ago, connja said:

Its actually amazing.  Considering the pitching we are getting, we may be under performing from W/L perspective!

The O's are 5-3 in May.  A .625 win percentage.

[Frobby]

28 minutes ago, wildcard said:

The O's are 5-3 in May.  A .625 win percentage.

The Os had the highest winning percentage in the majors yesterday, and over the last two games as well.    

It’s nice that we had a good week.  Let me know where things stand at the end of May.   That’s a sample that’s worth paying some attention to, especially since we have to play 19 games in 18 days starting with last Sunday’s doubleheader.   
 

[wildcard]

4 hours ago, Frobby said:

The Os had the highest winning percentage in the majors yesterday, and over the last two games as well.    

It’s nice that we had a good week.  Let me know where things stand at the end of May.   That’s a sample that’s worth paying some attention to, especially since we have to play 19 games in 18 days starting with last Sunday’s doubleheader.   
 

I doubt I will have to let you know.   You will know.

[LookinUp]

3 hours ago, Frobby said:

The Os had the highest winning percentage in the majors yesterday, and over the last two games as well.    

It’s nice that we had a good week.  Let me know where things stand at the end of May.   That’s a sample that’s worth paying some attention to, especially since we have to play 19 games in 18 days starting with last Sunday’s doubleheader.   
 

Right. 

This thread is certainly fine, but listening to the radio all I think of is that people need to pump the brakes. 

We are better than we've been. We're also more fun, and next week hopefully we get another major promotion. It's positive. Certainly more so than the Rangers with their Semien ($175 million) and Seagar  ($325 million) purchases.

[Aristotelian]

You couldn't possibly be cherry picking a small window of data to get a desired result. 

[Ohfan67]

5 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

You couldn't possibly be cherry picking a small window of data to get a desired result. 

That's not allowed on the internet. 

[Going Underground]

4 hours ago, Frobby said:

The Os had the highest winning percentage in the majors yesterday, and over the last two games as well.    

It’s nice that we had a good week.  Let me know where things stand at the end of May.   That’s a sample that’s worth paying some attention to, especially since we have to play 19 games in 18 days starting with last Sunday’s doubleheader.   
 

Tigers now are 8-20 and record is only a few games better then the Reds  Least runs scored and homers. Three of their better starters are out. Pitching ERA is actually slightly better then the Orioles. I know the Tigers don't have the best offense. Month of May have scored 14 runs and shut out last two games.

[sportsfan8703]

So much for that offense. 

[jabba72]

Detroit: 54 Runs in 23 games in May. Yikes.

[DrungoHazewood]

1 hour ago, sportsfan8703 said:

So much for that offense. 

So much for looking at a tiny bit of a snapshot of mildly surprising information and assuming you can draw broad conclusions from that.

[DrungoHazewood]

2 minutes ago, jabba72 said:

Detroit: 54 Runs in 23 games in May. Yikes.

In 1972 the Orioles played 28 games in June and allowed 68 runs.  That same year the Rangers scored 57 runs in 29 September/October games, and had a .473 team OPS over that period.