Wednesday, May 31: Homestand and the month of May end with rubber match vs Guardians

[TopGunnar]

15 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Mountcastle would be the best hitter on the team if he even had half the plate discipline of Rutschman.

Yea probably. But instead he has the worse plate discipline on the team. 

[LA2]

Wasted a one-out double. Only two innings left.

[Dunk35]

1 minute ago, TopGunnar said:

Yea probably. But instead he has the worse plate discipline on the team. 

He and Mateo are battling to be the worst. 

[dtk9119]

Offense has run out of gas.. or Cleveland has actual competent pitchers

[Hank Scorpio]

Just now, Dunk35 said:

He and Mateo are battling to be the worst. 

Mateo is just awful. Two hanging sliders today and he wasn’t able to hit either of them hard. 

Plus, you know, the last month.

[Alasdaire]

26 minutes ago, Bemorewins said:

We can continue to give reasons/rationale to never improve the team. Meanwhile, time will continue to pass and Adley’s contract will continue to run.

**whispers**

The point is that this team is ahead of schedule to the point that it's not even clear what is needed to get them over the hump.

[e16bball]

Seeing some suggestion that what’s happening today is related to Hyde and overuse of the bullpen. I don’t agree with that. 

Which of these guys has been overused? Maybe Baumann, but most of these guys we’ve seen today have had pretty reasonable workloads for their roles. 

I would argue that the rest of the bullpen is being overused because of these guys. There are only four guys in the pen that Hyde can count on to get outs, and that’s if you include Coulombe and Baker (sometimes iffy). Those guys are being worked like rented mules, no doubt about it. They’re pitching tons of high-effort, high-leverage innings, and they’re wearing down. 

But the biggest reason for that is because we’re playing a load of close games and none of these jokers (Akin, Voth, Perez, Givens, and even Baumann) can be relied upon to protect a narrow lead at present. Akin and Perez have been hugely disappointing, and only the addition of Coulombe has managed to mitigate the damage of their regression. Voth has been painfully hit-or-miss. And the best thing you can say about Givens is “at least he’s not Tate.”

At some point, it’s not Hyde’s fault that half of the bullpen frequently just can’t get guys out. I keep reading posts that say things like “well, if X pitcher can’t protect a 5-run lead over 3 innings, then he shouldn’t be in MLB.” But they can’t! Frequently can’t. The utter collapse of the bottom half of the bullpen continues to be probably the single biggest issue with the team as currently constituted. Fortunately, at least in theory, it should also be the easiest part to fix.

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, Alasdaire said:

The point is that this team is ahead of schedule to the point that it's not even clear what is needed to get them over the hump.

Are they tho?

This is year 5 under Elias and right now they look to be competing for a WC spot.

Is that ahead of schedule?

[baltfan]

Baker had a nice inning. Unfortunately, have to send him back out. 

[Gurgi]

This team has a great record in a extremely tough division.....but I have been struggling with "Imposters syndrome"  I have a deep feeling we are not as good as our record.  That somehow we have been playing way above our heads.  I fear the wheels might come off or the other shoe will drop.   

Still our record is solid and we have beaten good teams.  I should feel happy but I guess I am a "Glass is half empty" kind of guy.  

I think it comes from 40 years of horrible Oriole teams with five or six really decent clubs in that time.  I get so damn stressed in some of these games.  

I want to apoligize for calling Givens fat.  He doesnt deserve that.  I know better and I am sorry to have spouted off.  

[Fiver6565]

Not sure this bullpen could’ve gotten the Tides out today. They’re up 3-0 already. Daz with a two run jack that was absolutely smoked. 

[SteveA]

OK, top of the order, if we are going to make any more noise this game, this is the inning to do it.

[OriolesMagic83]

Is McKenna available to pitch?

[Bemorewins]

6 minutes ago, Alasdaire said:

The point is that this team is ahead of schedule to the point that it's not even clear what is needed to get them over the hump.

Ahead of what schedule? 5 years wasn’t long enough to rebuild?

[baltfan]

Melanie is awful but she does make a good point that we looked horrible against the A’s