Orioles 2024 Season

[UVA_Guy81]

Random thought of the day: "How much should we really blame the hitting coaches for the less-patient hitting approach in 2024?"

• 2023 Orioles: 0.255 / 0.321 / 0.421; 0.742 OPS (14th in the MLB); 0.320 wOBA (14th); 8.4% BB, 22.4% K, B/KK ratio = 0.37; 0.305 BABIP (9th in the MLB)
  
  
• 2024 Orioles: 0.250 / 0.315 / 0.435; 0.751 OPS (4th in the MLB); 0.324 wOBA (4th); 7.9% BB, 22.0% K, B/KK ratio = 0.36; 0.288 BABIP (20th in the MLB)

So the numbers seem to tell a different story:

• The 2024 approach is slightly more productive (from the standpoint of higher OPS and wOBA), but it did involve trading AVG and OBP for SLG to some extent
  
  
• Surprisingly, the numbers did not support the hypothesis that the more aggressive hitting approach resulted in turning walks into strikeouts in the attempt to hit for power. Instead, both walks and strikeout decreased, and it may actually be bad luck that's causing "un-clutch" hitting in 2024 (notice the drop in BABIP).
  
  
• For that matter, one area where the 2024 team did worse is the "base running runs above average" (BsR) category: The 2023 team was ranked 3rd (16.1), while the 2024 team was ranked 16th (-0.3). If we look at the details, this was partly due to Mateo's season-ending injury, plus most of the team being worse in this category in general. This might actually be a combination of being a slower team in general (due to having fewer faster players available and/or lingering minor injuries), plus possibly coaching.

I feel like the aggressive approach backfired. Too many guys having it in their mind to swing before the ball is at the plate led to horrible swings a lot of the time when the ball was nowhere near the zone. My thought is just go back to basics and just worry about contact, not the power swing. We had a lot of success with that the last week of the season and it led to wins.

 

[hattersgonnahate]

From MASN (emphasis added):

The Orioles are making multiple changes to their coaching staff following their elimination in the Wild Card series.

According to a source, the club isn’t bringing back co-hitting coach Ryan Fuller, bench coach Fredi González and major league coach José Hernández. The search begins for their replacements. [...]

If no other changes are made, the Orioles would bring back [co-hitting coach] Borgschulte, pitching coach Drew French, assistant pitching coach Mitch Plassmeyer, major league field cooerdinator/catching instructor Tim Cossins, third base coach/infield instructor Tony Mansolino and first base coach/outfield instructor Anthony Sanders.

The staff also includes major league development coach Grant Anders, offensive strategy coach Cody Asche - who basically served as a third hitting coach - and pitching strategy coach Ryan Klimek.

The Orioles haven't announced the changes and don't comment on personnel matters.

 

[UVA_Guy81]

Borgschulte also leaving Orioles coaching staff

The changes coming to the Orioles coaching staff will be more extensive than anticipated earlier this week.The co-hitting coach arrangement with Ryan Fuller and Matt Borgschulte is completely gone. The Orioles aren’t retaining Fuller, and a source confirmed today that Borgschulte is returning to...

www.masnsports.com

Looks like the duel hitting coaches attempt failed. Hopefully they don't try it again and can get someone that can write the wrongs of the offense this past season.

 

[chillerdab]

They seemed to be great last season and shitty this season.

Not sure why they abandoned patience at the plate for hard contact above all.