Memorial Day, May 29: Guardians come to town

[baltfan]

Just now, Dunk35 said:

And Mullins is headed to the IL. Cowser gotta come up now. 

Cowser is hurt.  Daz Cameron maybe?

[ArtVanDelay]

What happened to Mullins?

[Orioles0615]

1 minute ago, spiritof66 said:

What are you going to change? The outfielders are doing OK or better at the plate. Rutschman is going to be in the lineup almost every day; he should have been in it today. You can make Mateo a backup. You can, and should, keep McCann out of the lineup when he's not catching. A bigger move would be to dump or reduce the role of Mountcastle or one of the outfielders, but I don't see that happenning.

This is a team of pretty good hitters (some of whom are very streaky or slump-prone) but no really elite hitters. (Adley or Gunnar may get there, but sure aren't there now.) I'm not sure who the Orioles' best hitter is, but I'll bet he's well below the level of every other good team's best hitter or two or three best hitters. I can't think of an exception, but there may be one.

So what are you going to shake up?

Westburg comes up plays 2b

SS is Gunnar full time

3b Urias 

Mateo to the bench

Fraizer to RF

[CynBeth]

We are in big trouble if we lose Ced can see us being swept and on a huge losing streak.

[SteveA]

2 minutes ago, Winter said:

Bieber will shred them if they have at bats this bad vs him. 

He's he's a hard throwing righty.   Look at how many runs we scored vs Cole, Gausman, and Manoah.   Bieber doesn't worry me.

Cedric being hurt does worry me, however.

[Uli2001]

3 minutes ago, Dunk35 said:

And Mullins is headed to the IL. Cowser gotta come up now. 

It could be a day-to-day situation. If he misses an extended period of time, I don't see how the team replaces his offensive production.

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Alasdaire said:

Easily the worst player to lose. Only consistent guy on offense and only good defender other than Mateo.

If it's a long-term injury, I think that should impact your calculus in terms of being buyers at the deadline.

That would be Adley.  You want McCann catching five games a week?

[SteveA]

Just now, CynBeth said:

We are in big trouble if we lose Ced can see us being swept and on a huge losing streak.

We haven't been swept in 57 series.

Yet there are probably AT LEAST 100 posts this year on game threads and on the main board saying we are going to be swept or we will probably be swept in a series.

Eventually, maybe one of you will be right.   And you'll probably say "I knew we would get swept"

[FlaO'sFan]

2 minutes ago, ArtVanDelay said:

What happened to Mullins?

Pulled up running to first. Possible quad injury.

[CynBeth]

Just now, SteveA said:

We haven't been swept in 57 series.

Yet there are probably AT LEAST 100 posts this year on game threads and on the main board saying we are going to be swept or we will probably be swept in a series.

Eventually, maybe one of you will be right.   And you'll probably say "I knew we would get swept"

I do it hopefully as a reverse jinx.

[SteveA]

3 minutes ago, ArtVanDelay said:

What happened to Mullins?

Pulled up lame running out what would have been an infield hit.   Quad?   Groin?

[tntoriole]

This team should have stayed in bed today 

[Alasdaire]

Just now, Can_of_corn said:

That would be Adley.  You want McCann catching five games a week?

I guess I would say Adley, but reasonable minds could disagree between those two. Mullins is a clubhouse leader too.

[Orioles0615]

Its Cowsers injury a quad injury too? 

 

Some quad injuries I know can take up to 6 weeks to recover from

[baltfan]

Time for a couple of meaningless runs.