Adley Rutschman 2024

[e16bball]

26 minutes ago, SilverRocket said:

 

Don’t want to nitpick J.C. Meyer too much, but there’s nothing in that quote that addresses Adley’s physical condition at all.

Always possible that Hyde said Adley is fine physically in response to a different question that isn’t included in this quotation, though. Not trying to call anybody out. 

That said, if he’s not hurt, where Hyde is wrong is in saying that “lots of guys go through this.” Lots of 26-year-old guys do not go from being the best guy at their position for 2+ years, with metronomic consistency, in the midst of a hot streak leaving them at essentially career-best heights — and then wake up one day and find themselves playing like a bad backup catcher for months, in every aspect of the game. That’s unusual. 

Edited September 2 by e16bball

[OriolesMagic83]

25 minutes ago, SilverRocket said:

 

I guess I'm somewhat relieved that's he's not dealing with bad back pain, but he's playing like night and day worse, defensively and not just offensively compared to the player he had been with the O's. 

[Frobby]

Adley showed some signs of breaking out of his slump on the road trip, hitting .273/.360/.455 for the six games.  Hopefully a sign of better things to come.  

[Too Tall]

We need Adley to break out and sustain plus Tony to go on another streak. That would go a long way to waking us up. This home series will be telling.

[CTBear]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

Adley showed some signs of breaking out of his slump on the road trip, hitting .273/.360/.455 for the six games.  Hopefully a sign of better things to come.  

Plus he’s been throwing out runners recently. The defensive improvements are really important too

[InsideCoroner]

A couple of his hits were bloopers, but the homer he hit was a positive sign. Him turning things around could be a big boost to the club right when they need it.

[CTBear]

1 hour ago, InsideCoroner said:

A couple of his hits were bloopers, but the homer he hit was a positive sign. Him turning things around could be a big boost to the club right when they need it.

I forget which game it was (Fri or Sat) but he also pulled a ball foul down the LF line that nearly snuck inside the pole. So he was close to having 2 HRs in the series

[deward]

2 hours ago, InsideCoroner said:

A couple of his hits were bloopers, but the homer he hit was a positive sign. Him turning things around could be a big boost to the club right when they need it.

He had several hard hit balls in Boston, not all for hits. Including one to RF that would have been a HR nearly anywhere else.

[Just Regular]

Rates and Barrels this week mentioned a split reviewing the Orioles that was kind of elegant for many of baseball's numbers revolving around 100 scales.

His offensive production rate was ~135 in the good part of his year, and ~65 in the bad part.     The good part is still larger, and B-Ref still has him at 110 overall.    

I'd learned some about young Boog Powell's hot and cold streaks earlier this year, and how it probably seemed impossible Age 25 Boog could have a sub-replacement season after being a tremendous young player (and World Series champion) for several years - Adley's kind of compressed that lived experience into the last half season.

I'm sure we'll all be enthusiastic listeners to whatever Roch has to retroactively tell us once it is all over.    Adley's a star in the game on the level of Carlos Correa, who ended up having to rest his fascia two full months to push as best he can for a few weeks or more.    We'll get a good view how those two guys seasons will wind up.