Walltimore

[Allan Bryant]

19 minutes ago, Il BuonO said:

Until it’s shown that DR is not willing to spend, Elias is the guy seemingly out of excuses. 

Totally agree with you . Heard talk about Elias is conservative and risk averse but he needs be bold 

[Big Al]

1 hour ago, emmett16 said:

Just so we are clear….

Folks want us to have a contact and OBP approach & not rely on the HR as our only way to score AND folks think the wall is forcing hitters to work oppo and to have a contact OBP approach and therefore want the wall changed to make HR more easily attainable and more of a focus? 
 

 

Just speaking for myself, I subscribe to the first part of the statement. I feel they overdid it with the wall. But now it is what it is. 

[e16bball]

2 hours ago, emmett16 said:

Just so we are clear….

Folks want us to have a contact and OBP approach & not rely on the HR as our only way to score AND folks think the wall is forcing hitters to work oppo and to have a contact OBP approach and therefore want the wall changed to make HR more easily attainable and more of a focus? 
 

 

I think the wall is going to drive the overwhelming majority of our best hitters — the LH hitters they’re intentionally stacking — not to work oppo.

Because aside from the top 5 MVP finisher with the amazingly thunderous bat, left field at OPACY is death to our other mere mortal LHHs. They’ve struggled to even get hits out there, let alone do any XBH damage.

Eventually they’re going to adjust away from doing the same ineffective thing. They’d be idiots not to.

[deward]

On 10/5/2024 at 7:56 PM, Sports Guy said:

The wall has been a huge positive for the Os.  
 

I do agree that they have gone overboard with the left handed stuff and I have said that for the last few years. I think that’s a fair and accurate issue to bring up.

Saying pushing the wall back was wrong or whatever is just an ignorant and quite frankly dumb statement.

Do you think the W/L record would be noticeably different over the past three years with the old dimensions? I don't. Talent wins in any park.

[deward]

On 10/5/2024 at 6:38 PM, Moose Milligan said:

Aaron Judge whined about it so I’m a fan. 

The older I get, the more I think people just exist to look for confirmation biases. In all avenues of life. Paul Simon wrote “a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”

I’m sure if we beat the Royals and advanced and Walltimore robbed three or four homers from the Royals, we’d be extolling its virtues and how great it is. 
 

But that didn’t happen. If anything, there were a couple instances where, if anything, it worked against us. 
 

So here we are. 

I couldn't care less what Aaron Judge thinks about anything. And I'll still hate looking at that wall even after the O's win the WS next year.

[Sports Guy]

37 minutes ago, deward said:

Do you think the W/L record would be noticeably different over the past three years with the old dimensions? I don't. Talent wins in any park.

Yes I do..I think our pitching would be worse.