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I'm not necessarily going to buy that Holliday and Mayo should be expected to struggle this much. Jackson Merrill hasn't. Jackson Chourio hasn't. It's not automatic that guys have to go through a period where they are hitting around .100 and striking out more than half the time. Lots of good players come up, have some ups and downs, but are not THAT bad. -
By 1fingerwillie · Posted
Sure does...but I believe he was acquired for 2025 so I won't make any judgment till June or so. -
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For me, winning the division is the greatest accomplishment left in the game. When I was growing up, four teams would qualify for the playoffs: in each league, the best team in the east and the best in the west would face off in a championship series, and the winner would go to the World Series. Winning the division back then was the due reward for playing great ball all season long. That's how it still should be. That's the whole problem with the current playoff system, in a nutshell. Winning a division after playing 162 games should mean a lot. As for this year's Orioles, I ceased to be disappointed in them sometime in late July or so. Instead, I regard them as a promising work-in-progress whose best days lie in the years ahead. They are kind of like the Houston Astros just when they started to get good but still weren't a world-class team. -
I can't help but wonder if our hitting coaches basically just do one thing: preach the launch angle approach that Elias has determined that leads to optimal overall results. Don't worry about strikeouts. Emphasis on doing the most damage when you swing (vs just trying to put the ball in play, hit 'em where they ain't, etc). And that approach, taken as a whole, DOES lead to better overall results, and I believe it IS the correct holistic approach for an organization to take in drafting, developing, and coaching players? But if it is the only thing our hitting coaches know how to teach, could that also be a problem? When a batter is in a slump, maybe he should be less concerned with focusing on the amount of damage he does per swing, but jsut with putting the ball in play to make something happen. Could there be a psychological effect? Players and ex-players will talk abouit a bloop hit helping them get out of a slump. Football players will talk about going immediately back to a receiver who drops a ball to boost his confidence and "keep him in the game". And most "old school" baseball coaches believed in these things, and used them to help guys get out of slumps. Maybe there is still some wisdom in that approach, not as a primary approach, but to help a guy get his confidence back, start seeing the ball better, etc. And maybe the guys we hired aren't able to, even temporarily, change what they are telling guys to help them when they are struggling. Just speculating. Grasping for answers at the astonishing lack of hitting we are seeing on so many nights.
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By Can_of_corn · Posted
I tried to tell folks that when they wanted to throw Mountcastle into every trade scenario. Prolonged play at first and against left handed pitching exposes him.
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