Friday Night Sept 16: O's start huge series in Toronto, tonight exclusively on AppleTV

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

I know the offense has had issues, but the starting pitching has to get better to have a legit chance at the playoffs next year. Lyles on a 90+ win playoff team is a fifth (maybe fourth) starter.

Lyles cannot hang with better lineups like the Blue Jays. Next year should get better with Grayson Rodriguez and Means returning from injury. I still want to see Elias sign or trade for a TOR starting pitcher assuming he can spend the payroll. 

[Emory Eagle]

1 minute ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

I know the offense has had issues, but the starting pitching has to get better to have a legit chance at the playoffs next year. Lyles on a 90+ win playoff team is a fifth (maybe fourth) starter.

Lyles cannot hang with better lineups like the Blue Jays. Next year should get better with Grayson Rodriguez and Means returning from injury. I still want to see Elias sign or trade for a TOR starting pitcher assuming he can spend the payroll. 

The sad truth is that this team is several bats and several SP arms away from being a WS contender.   Great season no doubt but mostly bc of pitching over achievement that seems unlikely to repeat.

[terpoh]

This has got to be the worst ball/strike umpiring I have seen all year.

[LA2]

Bauman can't get the strike calls that they foisted on Urias. Jeesh.

[NashLumber]

Urias was close to getting a catcher's mask getting thrown into his chest. That would have been the final insult to injury. 

[Just Regular]

We couldn't have asked Baumann to do that two innings ago?

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

1 minute ago, Emory Eagle said:

The sad truth is that this team is several bats and several SP arms away from being a WS contender.   Great season no doubt but mostly bc of pitching over achievement that seems unlikely to repeat.

 I want the team to improve more next year, but it's not out of the question next season goes a bit sideways with the Orioles winning 80 to 85 games and miss the playoffs. 

A full season of Adley and Gunnar should make a big difference, but there are no guarantees without upgrading the roster. My biggest concern is ownership and the Angelos family infighting screwing up what Elias can accomplish this offseason. 

[LA2]

The run-down of the scores and too many details on the supposed WC races, so much useless gab that they are four batters into the inning without having announced Bauman as the relief pitcher. They even ignored their own graphic.

[Emory Eagle]

Throw high velocity FBs in on the hands of everyone.

[emmett16]

2 minutes ago, terpoh said:

This has got to be the worst ball/strike umpiring I have seen all year.

If I had a dollar for every time I heard that this year I’d have like $132 dollars.  

[LA2]

Someone's got to teach announcers how to stop suffocating the games. It's actually often hard to concentrate on the game because you have to spend so much time blocking out the tedious, rushed chit-chat.

Edited September 17, 2022 by LA2

[Emory Eagle]

I’m going to need five straight solo home runs.  

[Moose Milligan]

7 minutes ago, Emory Eagle said:

The sad truth is that this team is several bats and several SP arms away from being a WS contender.   Great season no doubt but mostly bc of pitching over achievement that seems unlikely to repeat.

I'd like to see two legit arms for the rotation.

I don't necessarily care about the power bats, but I do care about guys that have a good approach.  I am so tired of watching these hacktivists at the plate, it's terrible.

Speaking of, here's Odor.

[LA2]

All this detail given by Newman on Bass's season and repertoire after not giving a single word about Bauman. Strange.

Edited September 17, 2022 by LA2

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

1 minute ago, LA2 said:

Someone's got to teach announcers how to let the game and crowd present itself more often without suffocating it. It's actually often hard to concentrate on the game because you have to spend so much time blocking out the tedious, rushed chit-chat.

It's like they all drank a pot of coffee before the broadcast and are wired out of their minds.