O's .300 hitters

[TomDominick]

With this latest team batting slump I got to wondering about O's who have hit at least .300 in relatively recent years with a minimum of 400 at bats. Last homegrown player was 2008. Last not homegrown was 2019. 

[Chelsea_Phil]

Didn’t Melvin Mora have one season when he hit lights out?

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Chelsea_Phil said:

Didn’t Melvin Mora have one season when he hit lights out?

He hit over .300 for the O's twice, but he wasn't home grown and both were before 2019.

[Spy Fox]

On the "death of the .300 hitter" front: if the season ended today, 2024 would be the second straight year with only a single-digit number of qualified .300 hitters in MLB. 

Before that, the last time there were less than ten .300 hitters was 1968. 

[Chelsea_Phil]

Yaz hit .301 that year, right?

[LookitsPuck]

Forget .300, the O's don't even have somebody hitting 285. Gunnar is the closest at 282. 

You look around the AL competitive teams, here are their hitters batting 280 or more:

• Yankees: Judge (321), Soto (285)
• Red Sox: Yoshida (290), Wong (287), Duran (287), Refsnyder (284)
• Twins: Correa (310), Miranda (292)
• Royals: Witt (331), Fermin (286)...Perez is close at 275
• Astros: Alvarez (308), Diaz (301), Altuve (301), Pena is close at 271

The Tigers have none. The Mariners have none.

The best hitters AVG wise on the O's this year: 

• Gunnar - 282
• Westburg - 269
• Mountcastle - 265
• Adley - 254
• O'Hearn - 254
• Cowser - 242
• Santander - 241
• Mullins - 233

And it's not like this team is a patient team. 

I think the issue here is the young guys are doing what young guys do. They struggle. Cowser was gangbusters, then bad, then gangbusters, then bad. Holliday was bad, gangbusters, now he's bad. Mayo has just been bad. And the top of the lineup rarely hits on all cylinders. It's like 1 of them hit each day and that's it. 

[Oriole40]

Joke of the Day:   Time for the second DH.

[TomDominick]

1 hour ago, Chelsea_Phil said:

Didn’t Melvin Mora have one season when he hit lights out?

.340 in 2004 with about 550 at bats. He hit .317 in 2003 but got hurt ... played in 96 games with 344 at bats.

[TomDominick]

1 hour ago, Can_of_corn said:

He hit over .300 for the O's twice, but he wasn't home grown and both were before 2019.

Hanser Alberto was the last Oriole to hit .300 or over....305 in 2019 in 524 at bats.

[Can_of_corn]

1 hour ago, LookitsPuck said:

Forget .300, the O's don't even have somebody hitting 285. Gunnar is the closest at 282. 

You look around the AL competitive teams, here are their hitters batting 280 or more:

• Yankees: Judge (321), Soto (285)
• Red Sox: Yoshida (290), Wong (287), Duran (287), Refsnyder (284)
• Twins: Correa (310), Miranda (292)
• Royals: Witt (331), Fermin (286)...Perez is close at 275
• Astros: Alvarez (308), Diaz (301), Altuve (301), Pena is close at 271

The Tigers have none. The Mariners have none.

The best hitters AVG wise on the O's this year: 

• Gunnar - 282
• Westburg - 269
• Mountcastle - 265
• Adley - 254
• O'Hearn - 254
• Cowser - 242
• Santander - 241
• Mullins - 233

And it's not like this team is a patient team. 

I think the issue here is the young guys are doing what young guys do. They struggle. Cowser was gangbusters, then bad, then gangbusters, then bad. Holliday was bad, gangbusters, now he's bad. Mayo has just been bad. And the top of the lineup rarely hits on all cylinders. It's like 1 of them hit each day and that's it. 

Tied for 121h (3.89) in P/PA for context.  So pretty middle of the pack.

[LookitsPuck]

In the AL, here is the offensive breakdown of this club for the year:

• #1 in SLG
• #5 in OBP
• #6 in AVG
• #7 in SB
• #8 in SO

Over the last 30 days:

• #12 in SLG
• #11 in OBP
• #14 in AVG
• #8 in SB
• #9 in SO

Basically, this should be loud and clear: the first couple months carried this team, and they've been particularly awful/pedestrian in the last 30 days. 

[Can_of_corn]

9 minutes ago, LookitsPuck said:

In the AL, here is the offensive breakdown of this club for the year:

• #1 in SLG
• #5 in OBP
• #6 in AVG
• #7 in SB
• #8 in SO

Over the last 30 days:

• #12 in SLG
• #11 in OBP
• #14 in AVG
• #8 in SB
• #9 in SO

Basically, this should be loud and clear: the first couple months carried this team, and they've been particularly awful/pedestrian in the last 30 days. 

You are just being negative, you should be concentrating on the strike out rate going down compared to the opposition.

[Sports Guy]

2 hours ago, Spy Fox said:

On the "death of the .300 hitter" front: if the season ended today, 2024 would be the second straight year with only a single-digit number of qualified .300 hitters in MLB. 

Before that, the last time there were less than ten .300 hitters was 1968. 

It’s really absurd how devalued BA has become. 

[NedFromYork]

Missing Mateo and what I believe is a .700 OPS against LHP at 2B, Mountcastle putting O'Hearn into a platoon, Urias against LHP, Westburg against all pitching.  That's the difference.

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

It’s really absurd how devalued BA has become. 

It's amazing how overvalued singles were for over a century.