belcome to walltimore (a 2023 orioles thread)

Pretty good first day in the bigs for Westburg so far!

coby mayo has 9 home runs and 8 doubles over his last 15 games, might be ready for AAA

Adley, Cano, Hays, and the Mountain are All-Stars! When was the last time we had four? I thought Cano might be overlooked and ASSUMED Hays would be overlooked so I'm pretty happy.

buck o's had at least three every season from 2012-2016...pretty lean years the previous decade, though.

Camera man struck in the head be errant throw from 2b. Both teams being pulled off the field. Very rough

Gunnar Henderson currently 4 for 4, 2 HRs, 5 RBIs in the 4th inning. If these trends continue…

i've officially decided that our slump is over and we're never losing again

Did not know Adley was a switch hitter!

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Braxton Bragg has his name called by the @Orioles! pic.twitter.com/bUPd8VPmWs

— DBU Baseball (@DBU_Baseball) July 10, 2023

i've officially decided that our slump is over and we're never losing again

― ✖, Thursday, July 6, 2023 8:53 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

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8-0in the cowser era

just one game behind the rays! pretty incredible

oof, but your bullpen has to blink sometime

Anyway -- Grayson back up, looked pretty good. So what's the rotation when Means comes back? Wells and Bradish have clearly pitched themselves into the job, and I somehow don't see Veteran Leader Kyle Gibson getting demoted, so does Dean Kremer become a long reliever? And that's assuming we don't add an arm at the deadline!

In other news, True Oriole Rougned Odor DFAed by San Diego

Ladies and gentlemen your AL East leading Baltimore Orioles, really feels like Gunnar needs to get a pie in the face tonight

I love this team so damn much

The Orioles want first place for themselves pic.twitter.com/hH0lTpKjRF

— Barstool Baseball (@StoolBaseball) July 20, 2023

kind of a grim day offensively but god damn

Gunnar Henderson 🤯 pic.twitter.com/PnVTsKvnnn

— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) July 22, 2023

Did randy beat that throw but not have his foot down?

3 more outs till the O’s take the lead again. I love Big Bad Bautista so much

This O’s Bullpen is unreal. This team is always so hot in the last few innings it is a joy to watch.
Leaders of the East again <3

Some good stuff on the Orioles and their bullpen here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/joeposnanski/p/friday-rewind-flying-high?r=1jtu0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Thanks for the link. I did not check any stats about their wins post-6th inning so nice to know my eye test was not wrong.
It crazy to think the O’s (assuming they keep this division lead up) have the best chance in the AL to reach the World Series. Obviously they will be better than the AL Central leader, and I think I back them over Rangers/Astros right now. Wild-card’s lesser chances are obvious.
It’s a big call, but I’m willing to throw my hat in. O’s to the World Series!

I wouldn't be against them, especially if these imminent call-ups are on the way. The biggest thing going against them--they remind me of the '83 Jays, a young team on the cusp of a long run; I'm sure there are many other examples--is that things often go inexplicably wonky until you get some experience at being good.

"I wouldn't bet" that should read.

it's going to get hairy when the young starters start running up against their innings limits and bautista's arm falls off

I forgot that they had a bit of a run last year, so maybe they aren't doomed to buckle a bit down the stretch.

2 games ahead. Huge series for the O’s. Let’s keep the train rolling!

Our pythag luck has got to run out at some point, right?

Shun the non-believer

I take the pythag to reflect the quality of the bullpen. Much harder for teams without the best bullpen in the league to hold onto 1-run leads like the O’s do. O’s questionable Pythag vs. Tampa’s easy first half schedule? I take the O’s winning that battle. I believe in momentum too and the O’s have it in spades compared to the Tampa going into the end of the year.

I am also a hopeless optimist who believes good things will always happen to anything i support (symptom of following the dodgers for the past decade)

Not really being talked about but Ryan Mountcastle is back from a lengthy IL stay from some odd vertigo condition and could provide a huge boost in the cleanup spot. Preseason predictions forecasted him between 2.2-3.0 WAR for 2023.

welp... maybe it will be talked about more? that didn't take long.

We get Gerrit Cole on his best night and ... we win? Orioles magic.

Scooped up from bellow of the zone. Love watching dingers of balls, especially when they are walk-offs and especially especially against the Yanks

guys -- don't pitch to judge

We can send over Matt Chapman to chew out the Orioles' manager.

Mountcastle always goes on these tears and makes you think he's finally turning it around before crashing back to earth for 3 months, I'm ready to get off the ride

Sad the O’s don’t seem to be making any moves this deadline, if ever there was a season to go for it :\

Wouldn’t mind if this team didn’t kill Bautista before September:/

Do we think Verlander nixed a trade to Baltimore? Very hard to imagine we couldn't have offered the Mets a more appealing package than what they got from Houston.

Anyway, on "awe and mystique" grounds I'm a bit sad about Verlander and about potentially having to face him in a playoff series. But setting that aside, I think getting Jack Flaherty for not very much is.. OK? It doesn't really upgrade the rotation but it does provide flexibility and hedge against late-season injuries. If this was the KIND of move we were going to make I'd have rather had Jordan Montgomery I think.

getting picked off to end the game cannot be a good feeling

Didn’t this happen to another team yesterday too? Wonder the last time there were back to back days of a team losing from a pick off at first base.

Also, this was not a fun game to watch. Two hbp in a row to walk in a run was an ugly way to lose the lead

Jack Flaherty era starts tonight!

Guys, I have a nervous feeling. I don't know whether there was more Elias could have done at the deadline. But more and more I feel like, despite the young talent under control and the young talent still to come, 2023 is the best chance we have.

Starts in about 15 minutes--afternoon game.

oh man didn't realize that, I have Zoom meetings

Mountcastle 11 for 13 this series

I was going to post about him--I've don't think I've seen anything like it in all my years of watching the Jays. Brett used to kill us, Judge kills us, but Mountcastle has maybe eclipsed even those two. Career going into today (4-4 + SF): ~200 PA, .330/.394/.643, 15 HR.

Comparison:

Brett (725 PA): .321/.401/.551, 22 HR
Judge (433 PA): .290/.394/.589, 32 HR

He hits HR at Judge's rate, gets on base at Brett's rate, and overall is better than both.