I answered no, but it’s a compound question. I definitely don’t think they should fire Hyde if they make the playoffs but have an early exit. If they don’t make the playoffs at all, the question becomes more dicey. I’d have to see how the rest of the season played out to give a more definitive answer to that.
At present it appears the “cut line” for a wild card spot will be somewhere between 12-18 games over .500. The O’s are at 19 games over .500. To miss the playoffs, they’ll probably have to continue playing sub-.500 ball the rest of the season. That would be pretty bad and would warrant a hard look at Hyde.
I have no idea if the team will right the ship or not, but as @SteveApointed out, you don’t have to go way back in history to find examples of teams that had longer periods of worse play than the Orioles are going through now, and rebounded to win the World Series. In that 36-44 stretch he mentioned, the 3023 Rangers also had one stretch of 10-30 that lasted well into September.
So, should we be very worried about how the team has looked over the last month and a half? Yes. But baseball is weird, and it’s to judge a team when they’re playing their worst. They have the talent to play better. We’ll see if they do or not.
For skenes if the price was multiple Big 3, if not all , you would do that? There was a Super Bowl winning coach about 25 years ago that traded his entire catalog of draft picks for one, his name was Ricky Williams, good stuff
It’s nice that you doubt that Snell would have cost one of our big 3, but how can you possibly know that? It’s great to second guess whether we should have acquired Player X, but we have no way to know what the asking price was. Apparently Snell’s price was too high for any other team to go acquire him.
Here’s what we do know: Snell would have cost nearly $11 mm for the rest of this year, and he carries a $30 mm player option for next year ($15 mm deferred to 2027). He carries a ton of risk.
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