This Team Is Your Team: the 2017 Baltimore Orioles

Rosenthal returns to his old beat and turns out this nice piece about Brady Anderson and the unique bailiwick that is the Angelos Orioles

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/brady-andersons-role-with-orioles-a-topic-of-debate-032017

Ubaldo Jimenez and Wade Miley are gonna take this team all the way.

So, Ubaldo pitches 7 innings of 2-hit ball against Scherzer (who takes a no-hitter into the 6th), Buck leaves him in for the 8th to save the bullpen, and he obviously gives up a 3-run hr before getting pulled. But they rally in the 9th and win the game in 12. I don't know.

neither does Buck

I have no explanation for how this group of players has been a consistently contending team for 6 years now

wieters revenge

turns out this bullpen is literally held together by zach britton

Put in Davis.

The thought "Chris Davis is gonna win this game" did cross my mind but I was thinking as a pitcher

These guys are almost the definition of a "good bad team." Fun but crazy-making to watch, objectively lacking in on-the-field talent, losing games and looking horrible, winning more games and looking like it's all gonna fall apart at any second. I hope they go all the way.

team is bad

bad bad team

so it turns out you need pitchers to start games

and not just die

I've been watching this team for years and I do feel that they're always capable of being worst-team-in-the-league bad for a week and then bouncing back

true many years but this year 4/5 of the rotation is honest to god bad and that magic doesn't seem to be there

the farm system has gone from decent (4-5 years ago) to one of the worst in the league and there isn't really a way out

we're going back into the dark ages

Maybe if Machado sucks bad enough this year we'll be able to afford to resign him

You do start to feel like something's grievously wrong with pitcher development when you start with Chris Tillman, Brian Matusz, Kevin Gausman, Dylan Bundy, Jake Arrieta, lol Matt Hobgood I guess, and only one of those people turns into a really good major league starter and only after he leaves the team.

lol matt hobgood was never even supposed to be good, he was a throwaway first rounder who opened up more money to spend on mychal givens and no one else who made it to the majors. and givens was drafted as a hitter, where he struggled for years before being converted back into a pitcher.

andy macphail wasn't the worst GM ever but that draft was really something else

anyway i remember the "cavalry" hype years well and i think it was just that -- a desperate fanbase clinging onto any narrative that gave us hope, and it's not like we had anything else going for us

some of it was probably bad pitching development but this has also been one of the healthiest rotations over the past 5 or so years and i think that counts for something. only bundy and matusz ever really had true ace potential and only one of them's totally burned out so far

you'd think this team would've figured out a better way to draft by now but i've been following the drafts since 2006 and they've pretty much always sucked

it's magical that the white sock who going to complete the sweep is miguel gonzalez

he'd look pretty good in our rotation right now probably

what a great team

Has there been a game in the last month where they didn't give up 5+ runs in the first couple innings?

AL record: 18 straight with at least five allowed. MLB record is 20.

now at 19

there have been no streaks longer than 15 since the record was set in 1924

hell yeah

damn

Ubaldo my (HACKING MASS) man!

i knew they could do it

how did this happen

putting Ubaldo back in rotation = going for record

I wouldn't give up on Bundy.

and I'm aware of his ungodly xfip.

would not hesitate to sacrifice bundy in the firesale that'll never happen

orioles team era in june: 7.23

Ubaldo!!!

ubLOLdo

just based on today's free mlb.com game the orioles are garbage

Orlando Arcia pantses the entire Orioles organization pic.twitter.com/aYrUC8h4MM

— MLB Insider Dinger (@atf13atf) July 3, 2017

if duquette doesn't start firesaling now i'm convinced he's been working for toronto all along

i was originally against trading machado for obvious reasons but to hell with it everyone must go

how did this team get this bad this fast

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according to rosenthal, duquette only has the go ahead to dangle the relievers (but not givens), seth smith and maybe welington castillo

gonna be a long decade

i know manny wouldn't net much with only a year left on his contract but if he isn't gonna sign long term right now, there's no point in holding on

this team got so damn expensive in exactly the way everyone knew it would, and there aren't enough scrub idiot GMs left to want to take on albatross contracts of guys worth < 0.5 WAR

are there any steve phillipses left? any front offices still without a good analytics department? :(

The mariners have a solid history of making dumb trades with the orioles but I think they may have wised up by now.

I just can't be rational about Manny, I want the Orioles to break the bank to keep him here, I know it doesn't make sense, it's just how I feel

if they can do it they should! he really doesn't have that much value with only a year left on his contract. but i don't think he'd sign long term in a million years

and with the davis/jones/trumbo contracts weighing everything down for the next few years it'd be impossible to do a real rebuild with him in the center. it'd also be a depressing situation if he has to play out his peak years on shitty teams.

Earlier this week, Orioles general manager Dan Duquette seemed poised to market some of his veterans in advance of the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline, but that no longer looks like the case. Even though the Orioles are 46-50 and 4.5 games out of a wild-card spot, Duquette told reporters Saturday that they’re planning to approach the deadline as buyers. “Whatever we do [at the trade deadline], we are going to try to help the club,” he said (via Brittany Ghiroli of MLB.com, on Twitter). “I still like a lot of our core players. I don’t believe all the stuff that says we have half the club on the market, because we have a lot of baseball left to be played.” Specifically, the Orioles will attempt to upgrade a rotation that entered Saturday ranked in the majors’ bottom three in ERA (5.93) and fWAR (2.0). Duquette noted that “if we can get a little bit better starting pitching or add to the pitching we can make a run at this.”

dodgers are out here looking to add yu darvish to their playoff rotation and dan thinks.........

i can't finish the thought he's just a fucking moron at this point

forgive me for ever doubting jeremy hellickson

Steve
The Orioles apparently didn’t trade Britton because they thought he should be worth the same sort of package that Chapman and Miller were last year. They are trading away all of their international money for Quad A guys. Their manager blasts pitch framing. Are they the new Diamondbacks?

Eno Sarris
Had one FO person tell me that they had identified the Orioles as evaluating things in a way they could take advantage of, that they were a little backwards. I think that's a little unfair, since I've know their analytics people and they're top notch. However... you never know how much the team listens to their analytics team. Their awesome bullpen year in and year out may be all they use their numbers people for.

not gonna make it to the playoffs with chris tillman in the rotation

they'll have to balance out tillman the oriole way -- more dingers

bring up pedro alvarez

since getting destroyed by the cubs gausman's allowed 2 ER in his last 4 starts wild card ahoy

justin upton just got a grand slam wild card not ahoy

tim beckham, AL player of the week

forgive me for ever doubting dan duquette

hellickson's been good too, idk what's going on

you know i was so excited about my team i forgot how absolutely they get destroyed on west coast trips

can't really afford a west coast trip

8 Ks in 3 IP for ubaldo

but as it turns out he's still bad at baseball

wtf tim beckham

A S C E N D A N T

would everyone be mad if the second AL wild card team wins the world series

Dylan Bundy!!! This is happening!!!!

buck showalter! leaving a young broken pitcher in way too long to sustain a not even no hitter

My loyalties are divided between the Mariners and Orioles, who have a pretty much equal level of futility in my lifetime. Yet somehow when the M's are chasing the wild card I think "what's the fucking point, they'll just get knocked out by the Yankees and it'll be more depressing than if they miss the playoffs altogether," but with the Orioles it's "hell yes, this terrible dumbass team is gonna go all the way!"

Orioles look like a solid bet to make fools of the projection systems once again. PECOTA had them at 74-88. They'd have to go 6-23 the rest of the way to hit that. (Not that this team isn't capable of a 6-23 run...)

THIS IS HAPPENING

it's so happening

god fuck i need to stop giving up every game

Why is Ubaldo still in the rotation when they're allegedly in the hunt?

life cleveland comes at you fast

i'm scared of cleveland

Yankees 150 runs against the Orioles are the most any team has scored in a season against one opponent in the Expansion Era (since 1961)

— James Smyth (@JamesSmyth621) September 16, 2017

http://www.baltimorebaseball.com/2017/09/28/j-j-unplugged-emotional-hardy-talks-career-future-family-depression-fatherhood-hunting-baltimore-stalking-wife