O's offense and the first inning: Do you two know each other?

[Moose Milligan]

Well you should email SigBot then, I'm sure he hasn't math'd this math.

[geschinger]

19 minutes ago, ShoelesJoe said:

Mullins is batting .189 / .250 / .189 when leading off the game, and .182 / .259 / .273 when leading off any inning. I think most people here would see that as a huge problem, and look to see if somebody else could do a better job. When Rutschman leads off an inning he's batting .297 / .366 / .487 so there's your solution right there. 

Not sure we should be making changes based on 30-40 ABs when especially when over his career (a much larger sample size), he's been a more productive player leading off a game than he has been overall.

[Tony-OH]

5 hours ago, Frobby said:

This hasn’t been getting much better lately.  The O’s have scored 19 runs in the first inning, or .31 per game.  The next lowest team is at 27.  Over 9 innings, the O’s .31 per game in the first that would be a 2.8 runs/game pace.  They have scored in the first inning in only 12 games out of 62.  

The pitchers have allowed 32 runs in the first inning, or .52 runs per game.  That’s not terrible, but it means we are behind after 1 inning quite often.  They have been behind after the first inning in 19 of 32 games, and ahead only 10 times.  
 

The numbers make sense to me because it certainly seems like this team is constantly playing from behind. Now they've done well overall doing that, but it really is strange how slow they go off on games.

I've been saying for some time that the Orioles need to look how they warm up their starters because it seems none of them have good 1st innings.

[ShoelesJoe]

2 hours ago, geschinger said:

Not sure we should be making changes based on 30-40 ABs when especially when over his career (a much larger sample size), he's been a more productive player leading off a game than he has been overall.

Mullins has been a poor leadoff man in 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023 (225 games total). He was out of his mind great leading off in 2020 and 2021 (166 games total). Career wise, he's been bad to mediocre leading off much more often than he's been good at it. Despite the emphasis on analytics I'm convinced most managers make out their lineups using the eye test. Mullins is a relatively fast CF who bats from the left side. That's your prototypical leadoff hitter going back to the 1890 Brooklyn Bridegrooms. 

[spiritof66]

On my Oriole team, with Cedric out, Adley leads off and Hays bats second. Maybe Henderson before Hays against righthanders but probably not yet.