and I'm aware of his ungodly xfip.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 24 June 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
would not hesitate to sacrifice bundy in the firesale that'll never happen
― qualx, Saturday, 24 June 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
orioles team era in june: 7.23
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 June 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
Ubaldo!!!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 30 June 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link
ubLOLdo
― qualx, Friday, 30 June 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
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
― na (NA), Monday, 3 July 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
if duquette doesn't start firesaling now i'm convinced he's been working for toronto all along
― qualx, Friday, 7 July 2017 04:45 (six years ago) link
i was originally against trading machado for obvious reasons but to hell with it everyone must go
― qualx, Friday, 7 July 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
how did this team get this bad this fast
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
http://logok.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Windows-logo-7.png
― qualx, Sunday, 16 July 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
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
― qualx, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
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
― qualx, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link
are there any steve phillipses left? any front offices still without a good analytics department? :(
― qualx, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link
The mariners have a solid history of making dumb trades with the orioles but I think they may have wised up by now.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 03:51 (six years ago) link
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
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 04:35 (six years ago) link
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.
― qualx, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 07:23 (six years ago) link
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.”
― qualx, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 03:09 (six years ago) link
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
― qualx, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
forgive me for ever doubting jeremy hellickson
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 August 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
SteveThe 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 SarrisHad 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.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
not gonna make it to the playoffs with chris tillman in the rotation
― qualx, Friday, 4 August 2017 03:13 (six years ago) link
they'll have to balance out tillman the oriole way -- more dingers
bring up pedro alvarez
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 August 2017 03:29 (six years ago) link
since getting destroyed by the cubs gausman's allowed 2 ER in his last 4 starts wild card ahoy
― qualx, Saturday, 5 August 2017 01:35 (six years ago) link
justin upton just got a grand slam wild card not ahoy
― qualx, Saturday, 5 August 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link
tim beckham, AL player of the week
forgive me for ever doubting dan duquette
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
hellickson's been good too, idk what's going on
― qualx, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
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
― qualx, Friday, 11 August 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
8 Ks in 3 IP for ubaldo
― qualx, Saturday, 12 August 2017 02:58 (six years ago) link
but as it turns out he's still bad at baseball
― qualx, Saturday, 12 August 2017 03:21 (six years ago) link
wtf tim beckham
― qualx, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 04:50 (six years ago) link
A S C E N D A N T
― qualx, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 05:01 (six years ago) link
would everyone be mad if the second AL wild card team wins the world series
Dylan Bundy!!! This is happening!!!!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 03:09 (six years ago) link
buck showalter! leaving a young broken pitcher in way too long to sustain a not even no hitter
― qualx, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 04:47 (six years ago) link
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!"
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
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...)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
THIS IS HAPPENING
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 2 September 2017 04:06 (six years ago) link
it's so happening
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 04:58 (six years ago) link
god fuck i need to stop giving up every game
― qualx, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 04:59 (six years ago) link
Why is Ubaldo still in the rotation when they're allegedly in the hunt?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 September 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link
life cleveland comes at you fast
― qualx, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 06:41 (six years ago) link
i'm scared of cleveland
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 11:48 (six years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Sunday, 17 September 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link
http://www.baltimorebaseball.com/2017/09/28/j-j-unplugged-emotional-hardy-talks-career-future-family-depression-fatherhood-hunting-baltimore-stalking-wife
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 September 2017 20:55 (six years ago) link