(-1.7 was the worst mark last year, if that's not obv)
― francisF, Saturday, 9 June 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
27.5 games back o_o
― johnny crunch, Friday, 15 June 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
lol
#Orioles have interviewed former #Dodgers GM Ned Colletti for an executive position, sources tell The Athletic. Team also believed to be interviewing others, but have not asked permission to speak with anyone currently working for a club. Colletti is an analyst for SportsNet LA.— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) June 16, 2018
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 June 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
swept in 4 games by seattle, now 30.5 games behind 1st; 0-13 vs the AL west
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 28 June 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
team player value -- batters: -2.7 bWAR as a team
granted a lot of that is davis, but jones and schoop and mancini are all starters and the best of them is at -0.4
royals are at +5.6 as a team, white sox at +6.3
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 June 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
Thread title ratified
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 19 July 2018 01:29 (five years ago) link
Well, we got Colby Rasmus, exactly the kind of guy who is not likely to be great but who somehow I feel is not that unlikely to contribute― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, March 6, 2018 10:07 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, March 6, 2018 10:07 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Also, my prediction that Rasmus would contribute has not been borne out
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 19 July 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link
Rasmus has been one of about 10 players on this team who might have been expected to be mediocre to bad and in fact have played the worst ball of their career
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 19 July 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
lmao
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 19 July 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
I mean is there a good reason for Jonathan Schoop, a consistently solid contributor coming off his best year and entering what should be his prime, to have suddenly turned into a replacement-level chump?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 19 July 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
yea this has been foreseeable for a while imo & their bullpen mostly kept them viable
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 19 July 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
Disagree. Team's record is well below its Pythag and its Pythag is well below where you'd expect the team to be based on talent on the field. Fangraphs had the Orioles projected for 76 wins this year, I think that's about what one might have foreseen based on who was on the field.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 19 July 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
i'm willing to grant them their pythag, which is . . . 32-65 and solidifies their lead over the royals as the majors' 29th-best team
everything seems to have broken badly -- one might expect schoop to be league-average; you can't exactly predict chris davis being literally the worst player of all time -- but they started the season with basically two starting pitchers, and that has been a relative strength
anyway, the deal seems decent? diaz is legit, one or two of the others might amount to something. pretty good for 12 weeks of machado
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 July 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
you can't exactly predict chris davis being literally the worst player of all time
pls this for the 2019 thread title
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 19 July 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
chris tillman has been dfa'd
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 July 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
well damn i appreciated the 54 HACKING MASS points, but wanted one more really bad start
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
If Jones is traded, that'll be the end of the Erik Bedard Trade Era in Baltimore. Maybe it'll be the beginning of the Manny Machado Trade Era!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 20 July 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
a modest proposal
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/lets-sell-the-orioles/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
return for britton seems reasonable
O's farm system was thought of as firmly in the bottom third of the league at the beginning of 2018, I wonder where people see it now
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 26 July 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
Bottom half of the league.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 26 July 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
That plus the high draft picks we'll get for sucking so bad this year and next should put us in an OK place
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
that's the spirit
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
Look, this team put together the best years of Manny Machado, Chris Tillman, Matt Wieters, Wei-Yin Chen, many others, into a team that for 5 years contended regularly and was one of the very best in baseball, I've got nothing to complain about
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
amazing numbers
https://thesportsdaily.com/2018/09/19/baltimore-orioles-chris-davis-might-put-together-the-worst-overall-season-this-century-cmb11/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 September 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
https://nbchardballtalk.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/gettyimages-963630286-e1530883410458.jpg?w=610&h=343&crop=1
2018 Contract Status: Signed thru 2022, 7 yrs/$161M (16-22)
― omar little, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
don't worry, there's help on the farm
The ORIOLES have signed 1B RYAN RIPKEN to a Minor League contract for 2019. Ripken, who turned 25 in July, hit .244/.281/.327 with a career-high seven homers in 106 games for Class A Delmarva this season.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link