BSL: The 2024 Season Ends For The Orioles; Immediate Thoughts About 2025
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Posted 02 October 2024 - 08:07 PM
BSL: The 2024 Season Ends For The Orioles; Immediate Thoughts About 2025
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Posted 02 October 2024 - 09:04 PM
Posted 03 October 2024 - 05:30 AM
This philosophy doesn't start at the major league level, of course; players get the same instruction and information at all levels of the minors. That's why I'm not sure that firing the hitting coaches will have much desired effect. Still, it's curious how the Orioles, who only ranked 17th overall in the majors in homers last year, suddenly became so homer-happy this year.
Rutschman is the poster child of this. Last year he's taking lots of walks and making good contact. The first half of this season he got more aggressive and it initially paid off with a bunch of home runs. In the second half, the home runs dried up and all that was left was a lot of crappy pop ups.
Posted 03 October 2024 - 01:40 PM
I don't see how you CAN'T make some major changes. The point is the playoffs. The 162 game season is fun to watch but it is the preface to the show. This is two years in a row (not to count the abysmal second half of this year) where the team faltered badly.
Posted 07 October 2024 - 04:10 PM
I don't see how you CAN'T make some major changes. The point is the playoffs. The 162 game season is fun to watch but it is the preface to the show. This is two years in a row (not to count the abysmal second half of this year) where the team faltered badly.
I guess reasonable minds can disagree, I just don't see it.
Posted 07 October 2024 - 04:19 PM
Not changing any of the DNA would be a huge mistake. Ive had my finger on the pulse of this regime and org from the jump. I believed in the talent pipeline before almost anyone. Props to Stoner and Phelan as for being aboard as well. I called for them to win the division last year when no one had it. I had them stepping back to 90 wins this year. Im confident in what I see with this group. Im not making any record predictions for '25 yet but I know they need to change up some of the DNA. The Oct failures are not random. It isnt bad luck
I don't see how you CAN'T make some major changes. The point is the playoffs. The 162 game season is fun to watch but it is the preface to the show. This is two years in a row (not to count the abysmal second half of this year) where the team faltered badly.
Posted 07 October 2024 - 04:28 PM
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Posted 07 October 2024 - 05:42 PM
Posted 07 October 2024 - 05:48 PM
Is Suarez a FA?
It's annoying that they won't clear up the uncertainty. Most international FAs have clauses in their contracts that they become free agents at the end of the season rather than be beholden to the service time rules. Suarez was an international FA. But not all of these guys have that.
Posted 07 October 2024 - 05:51 PM
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