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[BSLChrisStoner]

The O's have 27 homers in 17 games. 
How many do they finish with?

 

The O's have scored 100 runs.
How many do they finish with?

[BSLSteveBirrer]

225 HR

 

865 Runs

[Mackus]

215 home runs 

852 runs

[Mackus]

For some context, last year they hit 183 homers and scored 807 runs

[Pedro Cerrano]

Eleventy billion

[BSLSteveBirrer]

For some context, last year they hit 183 homers and scored 807 runs

Now why would you inject some facts into our guesses? More fun to just pull numbers out our butts.....LOL

[jamesdean]

I don't care about the homerun numbers but if they continue to score runs at the pace they're on, they'll win a lot of games.  I know homeruns=runs but lately, they've been doing a great job of making contact, putting balls in play, getting singles, moving runners, scoring runners, etc.. If they had a few more guys who could consistently draw walks, they'd be unreal. 

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Eleventy billion

What oddds you giving me to take the under

[BobPhelan]

210 HR
865 R

[TwentyThirtyFive]

The runs are the important one obviously. More than last year but maybe not by a ton.

[Mackus]

3 more homers but only 4 more runs today.  Still enough to win!

[BaltBird 24]

Feel like they've done a decent job at work the count, but hardly anyone is taking walks. My one complaint with the offense.

Adley, Gunnar, Cowser, Holliday, Mullins are all guys who've shown the ability to draw a walk. Even Santander was improving last year.

[makoman]

They are last in MLB in walk rate. 27th in pitches seen per PA. Last year they were just below average in walk rate and just above in pitches seen, FWIW. Hope that improves. 

[TwentyThirtyFive]

They are last in MLB in walk rate. 27th in pitches seen per PA. Last year they were just below average in walk rate and just above in pitches seen, FWIW. Hope that improves.

Has to improve. Said it in the game thread. Turning into the 2014-2016 group

[jamesdean]

Yeah, the walks, or lack of them, isn't as important when you're hot offensively like they are right now.  But when they're all slumping together(like what usually happens) and you need to get on base in other ways, that's when it will hurt.  I don't know where they stand as far as swinging at the first pitch but they have to be in the top 5 with that too. 

[BSLSteveBirrer]

Facing tough pitchers, the approach back in the day was to work the count. Draw some walks and even in the end if you got out you still got the pitch count up. Anymore we see a lot of one pitch outs. I get the flip side. Pitchers want to get ahead so lead with a strike. Ok but then you need to make that swing count often to warrant that approach.

 

Later on in the year and in the playoffs when you face overall better pitching you need to be able to get to the bullpen. Whether that's by hitting a ton or working counts and driving up the pitch count. The problem is its really hard to take an overly aggressive approach most of the season then get more to a count working approach. Not just a switch you can flip.

[hallas]

Adley in particular has been uncharacteristically chase-y lately.  I hope that gets fixed.  I can't imagine that is anything more than a slump considering he's had one of the best batting eyes in baseball for 2 straight years.