MLBTR will be conducting team-specific chat for all 30 clubs in conjunction with our Offseason Outlook series. Darragh McDonald chatted about the Orioles Outlook. Click this link to read the transcript.
MLBTR will be conducting team-specific chat for all 30 clubs in conjunction with our Offseason Outlook series. Darragh McDonald chatted about the Orioles Outlook. Click this link to read the transcript.
Since the O’s front office is mostly the old Astros front office under Luhnow. I am interested since Click doesn’t have a contract past this season, if the Astros will hire away Sig from the O’s or bring back Luhnow? Sure seems fishy that Click was not given an extension…
Oh no. Not Sig!
If they hire Sig, It will be Sig Hire!!! I’ve heard that mantra before in Germany…
With so many talented young players that still have to be sorted out, I have doubts the Orioles make more than one or two semi-big moves this offseason. They still don’t know what they have, and therefore, what they need.
A TOR pitcher would be nice. But not necessary. The O’s very probably have their analysts going over analytics and video of pitchers that may be available in Rule 5 and candidates to be released. The O’s are doing what the Guardians do – bring in seemingly failed pitchers and make them productive. Paying retail-plus for a name pitcher that might well go south on them is not how these 2 franchises build their staffs. If the O’s do go for a name pitcher I think they’ll go after one that didn’t have a great 2022, but their pitching analysts see ways they can improve the man in 2023.
As for their pitchers “inconsistency” – I think just about all of the starting pitchers improved as the year went on. A few ran out of gas their last couple of starts – but they’d never pitched that many innings in a year.
I think the term “managing expectations” is one Baltimore fans should adopt. The Tigers weren’t the only team that disappointed this season after improvements in ’21. In Moneyball Billy Beane talks about never putting yourself in a position where you feel you “have to make a deal”. I thinks that’s excellent advice for all front offices, but especially for this Orioles front office.
C Yards, if you catch this post sometime in the near future….What did you think of Mickey Jannis?