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[Sports Guy]

11 minutes ago, waroriole said:

You’re right when looking at the season overall. Really, only Cowser and Kjerstad strike out at a higher than average rate. Whatever they did to screw up Adley’s approach adds to the angst of the organizational approach. Plus, seeing them come up short time and time again over the last 2+ months of the season. 
 

 

Even since the AS break, most of their numbers were top 10 in the league.

[wildcard]

1 hour ago, Sports Guy said:

Right..things need to be tweaked and some personnel has to change.

There isn’t going to be an overhaul of philosophy.  

Thanks for proving that point.

Letting the hitting coaches go is more than a tweak.    We don't know about how or if the hitting philosophy will change but Elias is taking action to fix the 2nd half offensive problems.

[Sports Guy]

3 minutes ago, wildcard said:

Letting the hitting coaches go is more than a tweak.    We don't know about how or if the hitting philosophy will change but Elias is taking action to fix the 2nd half offensive problems.

And again, getting rid of coaches doesn’t mean you overhaul the philosophy. 
 

Im not sure if you actually pay attention to sports or not..many of your posts make me question if you do but coaches are let go for tons of reasons.  Sometimes they just want to leave, sometimes they don’t have chemistry with the players, sometimes their messaging doesn’t get through…there are tons of reasons.

The Orioles aren’t going to look at the stats the last few years, see how the have had one of the best offenses in the sport and say, ok let’s change he everything. That’s not a logical thing to believe.

But will they look to replace some guys?  Sure. Will they perhaps look for a few hitters that can put the ball in the play more?  Sure, that’s possible.

Things will be tweaked but as Elias said, there is a lot of randomness to this stuff and there was some bad luck.  It’s not the only explanation but it’s a big part of it.

[eddie83]

13 minutes ago, wildcard said:

Letting the hitting coaches go is more than a tweak.    We don't know about how or if the hitting philosophy will change but Elias is taking action to fix the 2nd half offensive problems.

They have an organizational hitting philosophy. It’s worked. The coaches are an extension of that. 
 

The names may change but the overall approach will not. 

[eddie83]

The fact that Fuller and Borgschulte are now gone feels like chum for a frustrated fan base that wanted somewhere to direct responsibility for an Orioles season that ended incredibly early, relative to expectations. It also wasn’t very fun toward the end, given some offensive struggles.

But this is not a dramatic change in philosophy for the Orioles. Whoever they hire for those spots will likely retain the general philosophy of controlling the strike zone to get pitches that can be hit hard. As recently as the July amateur draft, they reinforced that they believe what they believe in, and it’ll take them hiring someone completely old-school for me to think that has changed. These moves are not a refutation of what these coaches preached.

[eddie83]

Just now, eddie83 said:

The fact that Fuller and Borgschulte are now gone feels like chum for a frustrated fan base that wanted somewhere to direct responsibility for an Orioles season that ended incredibly early, relative to expectations. It also wasn’t very fun toward the end, given some offensive struggles.

But this is not a dramatic change in philosophy for the Orioles. Whoever they hire for those spots will likely retain the general philosophy of controlling the strike zone to get pitches that can be hit hard. As recently as the July amateur draft, they reinforced that they believe what they believe in, and it’ll take them hiring someone completely old-school for me to think that has changed. These moves are not a refutation of what these coaches preached.

I copied a portion of the story. Can see it better here. 

[eddie83]

Some fans are going to see the end of season slump and new hitting coaches and connect the dots. 
 

It’s really not playing the blame game that will be framed by some people.