AL East Thread

[UVA_Guy81]

Hopefully they continue to be competitive (Not against the Yanks but...), build a nice core of young players and then spend a few more bucks to entice some free agents. How has the attendance been? Any uptick with them playing solid at home?

I can’t speak about attendance off the top of my head without looking it up since I’m usually asleep when the games are starting up.
We’ve got some decent guys in our top three affiliates that I’d expect to be up in the next year or two. Not sure how the Angelos sons feud is going to turn out or if that’ll even affect how they’ll spend on free agents.

 

[Hornsstampede2.0]

I don't get to watch the O's too often. In your opinion has making the ball park bigger helped the team?

It has definitely helped their horrible pitching which has energized the semi-decent offense to keep fighting.
The previous 3 or 4 years, the Orioles pitchers would get battered, and the position players quit once they always fell behind by 6-7 runs.

With the new dimension, the Orioles starting rotation is somehow not completely awful despite it looking like crap on paper.
Veteran nobody Jordan Lyles
Rule 5 castoff Tyler Wells
waiver claim failure Austin Voth
couple of low end young guys in Dean Kremer/Spenser Watkins

The pitching staff is either having a miracle fluke season...or it clearly has worked as intended to artificially build pitcher confidence.

 

[navamind]

if only the Red Sox had a legit first baseman

It's not even like he's been hitting for power, and even his StatCast metrics aren't very impressive (.402 xSLG, .307 xwOBA). I was fine with him getting the 1B gig to start the season after a strong 2nd half (.269/.344/.611 with 15 homers in only 195 PA)

It's too bad Casas got hurt.

 

[navamind]

As good as they are they still have stretches where they can't hit for shit.

Difference this year is the pitching is keeping them in every game.

Saw a stat that there's only been 1 game this year where they didn't bring the tying run to the plate at any point in the game.

Even the best lineup is going to have stretches where they struggle and get shut out every now and then.

 

[navamind]

welp, we're getting swept

 

[obxyankeefan]

Did Gallo just try for an inside the park home run? Damn he can't even get that right.

 

[tabascojet]

Orioles with 3 in the 9th for the walk off....celebrating like game 7 of the ws

 

[Hornsstampede2.0]

Lets go Os!!!

Almost the most improbable win yet, of an entire month of improbable wins, walkoffs, and miracle comebacks.

And the crowds are starting to grow again.

4 straight 2 out, 2 strike, bottom of the ninth hits by the fan favorite players in a row (Odor, Rutschman, Mullins, Mancini).

And the fans got to see both Trout & Ohtani hits homeruns as well in a loss for the Angels.

 

[mr.hockey4242]

If there is one thing the Twins can take solace in against the Yanks. It appears we are the team that broke Cortes. Dude is ass now.

Not that it matters, Yanks score 11.

 

[navamind]

JBJ might be a better pitcher than as a hitter

 

[Manster7588]

This game sucks.

 

[navamind]

 

[UVA_Guy81]

I don't get to watch the O's too often. In your opinion has making the ball park bigger helped the team?

I’m also thinking having Adley back there at catcher has helped things as well.

 

[molsaniceman]

This season sucks.

fixed

 

[navamind]

Do you really think the Sox intended to go into this series with a rotation of Seabold/Bello/Crawford/Pivetta? It sucks that this is the rotation we have to roll with going into this crucial stretch, but that's just bad injury timing/luck.

This isn't a great team at all, but I think that was pretty apparent coming into the season. ZiPS had the Sox projected around 88-74 and PECOTA had them at 86-76... they're still on pace to finish around that. They looked like a Wild Card team coming into the season and they still look like a Wild Card team, I don't think much has really changed. The only things that have really changed are the Yankees being far better than anyone expected and are on pace for well over 100 wins, and the Orioles being better than expected (not often you see a last place team only a few games below .500 at this point in the season). It's also easy to forget that this team entered last season in the middle of a rebuild and not only did they win over 90 games, but came within 2 wins of reaching the WS.

Some of the whining I've seen from Sox fans, you'd think this was another 2012/2014/2020 season.

 

[Manster7588]

fixed

I meant the game in general but you are definitely correct.

 

[mr.hockey4242]

Do you really think the Sox intended to go into this series with a rotation of Seabold/Bello/Crawford/Pivetta? It sucks that this is the rotation we have to roll with going into this crucial stretch, but that's just bad injury timing/luck.

This isn't a great team at all, but I think that was pretty apparent coming into the season. ZiPS had the Sox projected around 88-74 and PECOTA had them at 86-76... they're still on pace to finish around that. They looked like a Wild Card team coming into the season and they still look like a Wild Card team, I don't think much has really changed. The only things that have really changed are the Yankees being far better than anyone expected and are on pace for well over 100 wins, and the Orioles being better than expected (not often you see a last place team only a few games below .500 at this point in the season). It's also easy to forget that this team entered last season in the middle of a rebuild and not only did they win over 90 games, but came within 2 wins of reaching the WS.

Some of the whining I've seen from Sox fans, you'd think this was another 2012/2014/2020 season.

The Rays and especially the Jays are the bigger let down in that division than the Sox thus far.

 

[navamind]

Brasier can be the next DFA.

 

[navamind]

Diekman can join him too.

 

[navamind]

DUGIE!!!