Chris78

As an Orioles fan I'm so tired of this same shit game after game. It's been going on for 2 seasons. Started after the allstar break in 2024 and has continued up till now. Complete suckage. Orioles fans endured a 5 year tear down to the studs rebuild to end up with this crap. A president of baseball operations that refuses to go out and sign a legit front of the rotation starter. Who is also a prospect hugger who's missed out on selling high even while having Log jams at the MLB level. Other than Gunner, the young core has been a disappointment, either from poor play or injuries.

3 players that get regular at bats are all hitting under .180. 6 regulars are at .220 or under. Team average is .234. Tough to score consistently with these numbers. Gunner and Alonso will be just fine but Mayo,Basillo and Mayo and Cowser.... Yikes. Basillo's underlying metrics say he should be fine. Lots of hard hit balls. The other 3 though not looking good.

What do you do with Ward? He can't DH on a regular basis with Basillo/Adley and Alonso all taking turns there. And you still have O'Neil in the mix if he's actually healthy. This is all comes back to poor roster construction and being stuck with your off season decisions.

@Maestrobjwa This was my point. With the current roster construction you can only do so much. Maybe just sub par compared to God awful?

More time behind the plate should show improvement for Basillo. A few games ago he had 2 past balls and some of it looked like laziness to me. That can't be tolerated and I'm sure Albernaz has let that be known.

I agree with the 3 wild card spots if you can be around .500 around the trade deadline you have a chance. Disagree on the defense Ward and O'Neil are not going to be different players than they've been for several seasons Beavers has not been good either. Cowser is better suited in left. Not sure how you fix the D this year. Basillo is not good behind the plate. There bottom 5 in most defensive metrics

There defense is awful. Not much they can do to fix that this season. I'm guessing there plan was that the hitting would overcome there defense but so far that hasn't happened on a regular basis. This team feels like a better team than last year but not a playoff team. Poor roster construction on Elias's part. I think if they miss the playoffs again he should be fired but who knows if he would be. He just got a promotion last year. There outfield defense is really really bad. Not just in errors but balls that average defenders get too and catch that our guys do not.

Great win tonight. Have yourself a career game Jeremiah Jackson.

If this materializes it won't end well for any of us....

Framber Valdez so far 0.75 Era through 2 starts.

Chris Bassett - Charlie Morton vibes

I hope they can pull it together. This season may spiral out of control fairly quickly. That's what happened last year Season was basically over by Memorial day.

I agree it's early and baseball is a marathon. Something that has bothered me is all of these top prospects has been underwhelming except for Gunner. You can go through all of them and with the exception of Gunner non has lived up to there billing. Holiday- decent player but he was the overall #1 prospect for a good while. Doesn't look like the superstar he was made out to be. Cowser- not an everyday center fielder. Can't hit off speed pitching. Westburg - can't stay healthy. Adley. - huge regression for the last 1.5 years. Not only offensely but defensely too. Add all of this up and you end up with the last year and a half of Baltimore baseball. This has to change for the Orioles to get back into the post season. Edit - I forgot to add in Mayo. Huge bust potential here. It's early but early returns looks like he can't hit Major league quality pitching.

Unfortunately the Os don't look like a team that is built to reach the playoffs. Lots of issues already this year. Team defense is a major issue. We have a left fielder playing center and the corner filelders have no range. I have a friend who's a Mets fan. He told me Alonso will get his Homer's but pay attention to when most of them happen. Lots of low leverage Homer's Not sure if that's been the case but he does watch plenty of Mets baseball. So far, very underwhelming brand of baseball in Baltimore. Something happened with this team halfway through the 2024 season and it hasn't been the same sense.

If I'm grading for my Yard this winter sucked for the most part. Further east had a better winter compared to average but places west and North had another winter of 50% climo snowfall or worse in some locations. Personally I don't love ridiculous cold if we're not getting snow. Some people love it and I know grading is subjective.