Guess the ORIOLES' final record 2018

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-orioles-and-royals-could-at-least-still-beat-a-triple-a-team-right

By WAR, the most valuable player currently on Baltimore’s roster is Richard Bleier, a 31-year-old reliever who has been on the DL since June.

https://deadspin.com/the-baltimore-orioles-have-been-even-worse-than-they-lo-1829362955

ILB ftw

wow. we did it?!

My optimism was misplaced but I still like this team a lot, there's something very Oriole about Jonathan Villar

is it is 8 WAR over 6 seasons?

buck stops here

Great manager for this team, my favorite since Weaver. I see the reasoning but he can leave with head high.

What's Buck gonna do now?!

he's 62, maybe he'll just chillax

solid manager; unfortunate that the lasting memory of his stint in baltimore will be not using zach britton

What are ya gonna do now, Buck?

If you made an average of all the faces, tics and physiques of all MLB managers in major leagues history, you end up with Buck. I mean it as a compliment.

this is a team that needs to get back to basics. that needs gritty old-time baseball and someone who understands The [Bird] Way. that needs mike matheny

538 speculates they could be even worse this year.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-2019-orioles-are-one-of-the-most-anonymous-teams-in-mlb-history/

opening day starter: alex cobb

of the 78 pitchers to throw 150 innings last year, he ranked 65th in fWAR (dylan bundy was 71st, andrew cashner 75th)

They're not gonna be worse this year.

feel like davis can't possibly be as bad as last year and maybe bundy won't give up 41 homers, but i don't otherwise see any reason for optimism

sounds like it's time for Guess the ORIOLES' final record 2019

davis is batting .143 in spring training so far

pythag had them at 55-107 last year (eight games better than their actual record) so there's that

Who will be worse: o’s or marlins?

It was the anonymity angle that drew me to the article. I looked over their roster and recognized maybe four names...which doesn't mean much in view of how poorly I keep up with new players. I did notice they've got Palmeiro's son and Yastrzemski's grandson.

Don't think either of those guys will be in Baltimore opening day though. Neither will Ryan Ripken, who also got a spring training PA.

pythag had them at 55-107 last year (eight games better than their actual record) so there's that

Right. And Dylan Bundy, Alex Cobb, and Andrew Cashner are 3/5 of a starting rotation who very much ought to be better this year than last year. I don't think this team is going to be good, but everything, EVERYTHING has to go wrong for you to lose 115 games and at that level of extremity the undertow of regression is really strong.

cobb might benefit from having a full spring training, but both he and cashner are now in their 30s and have actively bad K and BB numbers. bundy is league-average if he doesn't allow last year's insane number of homers. and they're without the half-season of machado.

but yeah, getting to 115 losses is never easy

With Alex Cobb starting the season on the injured list, Brandon Hyde said the Orioles will open the season with the following rotation against the Yankees:
-Andrew Cashner
-Nate Karns as an opener
-Dylan Bundy

— Nathan Ruiz (@NathanSRuiz) March 26, 2019

^^^ "Hey guess what @NathanSRuiz, they went 2 for 3 in the Bronx.

ON PACE FOR 108 WINS AMIGO"

should I tweet that or has someone already beat me to it?