psyched bradish is getting the call tonight. hope he gets an extended look.
― j.q higgins, Friday, 29 April 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
Bradish certainly earned the extended look.
Walk-off unearned run on a terrible bunt!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 1 May 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
Enjoying the Orioles playing like an ordinary bad team instead of a historically bad team!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 12:51 (two years ago) link
orioles hitters in may (admittedly only eight games all at home and mostly against mediocre teams, but still): .293/.343/.448
that's v. good!
pitching is also above average but they're not getting a lot of strikeouts (relatively speaking)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
Kyle Bradish is!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link
honestly whenever i encounter his name i start imagining (you know, if he were a yankee, or a hitter) what kind of home run call john sterling would give him
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link
yesterday i went to opacy for the first time since the pandemic. nice to see big felix in action and a walkoff earl weaver special in the much ballyhooed left field extension.
― j.q higgins, Friday, 20 May 2022 14:06 (two years ago) link
Dang lucky you being at that game -- how was turnout?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 20 May 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
Sounds like no Adley today, booooooooo
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:06 (two years ago) link
turn out was good! 23K paid.
― j.q higgins, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:50 (two years ago) link
happy adley day, friends.
― j.q higgins, Saturday, 21 May 2022 12:13 (two years ago) link
much excited
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 21 May 2022 12:47 (two years ago) link
i like the new era
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 22 May 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
Nice comeback tonight, down 6 in the 7th at Fenway, end up winning by 4.
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 28 May 2022 02:59 (one year ago) link
Heck of a night for Tyler Wells!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 01:34 (one year ago) link
This game is going well but that moment where it's up to McKenna and Owings to get the runs in is kinda hard to take
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 01:44 (one year ago) link
Grayson Rodriguez has been diagnosed with a Grade 2 right lat strain, Mike Elias said this morning, which likely won't pin him to a return to action until September.Elias wouldn't rule anything out, but focus is on Opening Day 2023. There's a chance Rodriguez is done for '22.— Zachary Silver (@zachsilver) June 5, 2022
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 June 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
Not feeling the morale improve tbh
― ✖, Sunday, 5 June 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
should probably tank for a bit longer
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Sunday, 5 June 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
This sucks but I don't see any reason this would have been any less likely to happen if he were in Baltimore.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 5 June 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
Anyway, I definitely think morale is improving!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 5 June 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
xp true, but he’d be getting paid and accruing service time
elias is no doubt secretly thrilled
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 June 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
Yes, good point, I was thinking about "to what extent does this timing suck for the Orioles" but the extent to which it sucks for GR himself is much greater
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 6 June 2022 02:10 (one year ago) link
Maybe the DL Hall call-up comes earlier now, I dunno
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 6 June 2022 02:11 (one year ago) link
beginning to wonder if gunnar henderson isn't up before the end of the year.
― j.q higgins, Monday, 6 June 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
Holy moly, I did not expect a promotion this early for him (and Westburg too)
― ✖, Monday, 6 June 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
interesting to compare him this year to witt last year...witt's almost exactly a year older.
― j.q higgins, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
Gunnar homered in his first game in Norfolk
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 9 June 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/bfwdzkbmeY— Matthew Sprague (@MSprague518) June 9, 2022
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 June 2022 05:49 (one year ago) link
stowers finally debuting! as a vax replacement lol
― ✖, Monday, 13 June 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
adley bomb off of berrios. guys, he may be adjusting.
― j.q higgins, Thursday, 16 June 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
If the Orioles (12-9 in June) win 2 of their next 5 games, they will claim their first full winning month since August 2017. It's been almost 5 years!!!!— Matt Kremnitzer (@mattkremnitzer) June 25, 2022
also:
have allowed one run on 13 hits in their last 27 innings
have the same number of wins as the white sox
― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 June 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
better record over the last 10 games than the yankees
― ✖, Sunday, 26 June 2022 00:35 (one year ago) link
not allowing myself to get excited. it still feels like a lot of the reasons we're doing better this year are going to get traded at the deadline... bullpen guys, mancini, santander. and i wonder if players like mullins and hays are going to still be around by the time the younger guys are settled. right now the only big 'post-tank' pieces are adley, mountcastle and bradish, still a lot of holes to fill.
― ✖, Sunday, 26 June 2022 00:40 (one year ago) link
they broke the glass on stowers. definitely curious to see when he next comes up. definitely seem to be avoiding trial by fire for the sexier mi prospects, but w/ jones out of the picture, maybe vavra's next man up? pretty amazing what westburg and henderson are doing at nrofolk, though.
― j.q higgins, Monday, 27 June 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
don't think stowers is up full time until santander is traded, or maybe mancini but they probably want him in the outfield. i'm not pinning a lot of hope on stowers though.
cowser, mayo and norby all promoted to AA despite not blowing the competition away at aberdeen. wouldn't be surprised to see any of them hit the ground running simply because ripken park is a cavern and bowie is a bandbox.
― ✖, Monday, 27 June 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
btw, rutschman above 100 ops+/wrc+
― j.q higgins, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 11:56 (one year ago) link
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-orioles-arent-good-but-they-are-interesting
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 June 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
Orioles are winning a lot of fun games lately.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 July 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
so...morale's pretty good!
― j.q higgins, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
.500 BABY
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 03:09 (one year ago) link
The orioles may be good *and* interestingCertainly makes the wild card race more fun
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
They are not, in any objective sense, a good team, but there is a lot of fun stuff going on. I think my pre-season picks of Mullins, Rutschman, Rodriguez, Hays, Mountcastle and Mateo to be interesting things about the 2022 O's was not THAT far off, and would be closer if not for injuries to Means/Rodriguez, but I totally missed the coming together of the bullpen and the Tyler Wells Experience and Mancini coming back this strong and of course Rougned Odor just kind of being fun as hell despite not being that good at baseball per se.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
Ten in a row, my goodness.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 14 July 2022 04:41 (one year ago) link
i mean, MAYBE i could have seen dean kremer stepping up like he has, but the efforts of tyler wells and spenser watkins have been astonishing.
― j.q higgins, Thursday, 14 July 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
Looks like morale has improved!!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
Second straight winning month! Even dropping two of three to the Yankees last week they never really seemed outmatched by the Yankees the way they sometimes have in recent years.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
Also, can we all agree tha, despite not really being able to hit, Jorge Mateo is the most fun Oriole in a while?
I also want to say that my description of Austin Hays at the top of the thread as "intermittently exciting" has held up quite well
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link
it's a very fun team. energy to spare. team speed fer crissakes!
― j.q higgins, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 11:38 (one year ago) link