Birds Up, O's Down for 5/31
by duck on May 31, 2010 11:46 AM EDT
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PrintHere’s a weekly look at players making an impact, for good and bad, for the Orioles this week:
Birds Up
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Ty Wigginton (2B/1B) - So, how do you get an up arrow with a batting average of .200 for the last six games? By taking eight walks and having a OBP of .414, that's how. Ty is doing everything he can. Too bad the rest of the offense (aside from the right fielder) resembles a bad Robin Williams movie. |
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Matt Albers (RHP) - He appeared in two games, had 2.2 IP, allowed three hits and a walk, but had one strikeout, allowed no runs and left two inherited runners stranded. For our bullpen right now, that's magic stuff. |
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Nick Markakis (RF) - Another week, another .400 OBP for Nick. He's batting over .300 for the season now, and while he did have six strikeouts in six games, he also took three walks and hit a HR and no GIDP. Of course, that would require someone in front of him actually getting on base. |
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b2b (2B) - He did bat 6-for-20 over the week, although without taking a single walk or hitting anything more than a single. But at this point, I'll take a .300/.300/.300/.600 slash line. |
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Frank Mata (RHP) - First week in the bigs, and two appearances, six batters faced, one hit, one walk, three inherited runners yet no runs scored. I'll take it |
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David Hernandez (RHP) - He only made it into one game as a reliever this week, but with 2.0 IP and three K's with zero hits, he did his job. |
O's down
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Scott Moore - He's hitless in his past five games, can't get out of his own way at second base and generally serves only to block b2b's presence on the field. That's not enough. |
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Adam Jones (CF) - And, just like that, Adam Jones isn't hitting again. An OBP lower than his AVG (which is hard to do, since his AVG was just .231) and no walks. This is getting painful to watch. |
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Cla Meredith (RHP) - Where to begin with Claw Megadeth? Well, half the batters he faced made it on base in two games this week, he had an ERA of 9.00 plus all three inherited runners scored. That's a bus ticket to Norfolk. |
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Miguel Tejada (3B) - The defense is getting painful to watch at times (although the arm's still there), and batting? Miggi's looking lost again, with a .233 OBP for the last seven games and and OPS of .471. Ouch. |
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Garrett Atkins (1B/bench) - I know it's like kicking a terminally diagnosed equine, but Garrett Atkins is just bad at baseball right now. Five games, a .154/.267/.385/.651 slash line, and no hope on the horizon of betting those numbers any better. Yeah, he hit a home run Wednesday. Whoopty-freakin'-doo. |
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Matt Wieters (C ) - SHJ batted just .158 for the week, and the bat is looking a bit sloooooooooooow. He struck out six times, managed just three hits, but did take four walks. Matt, really, feel free to start hitting again. Really. |
| Dishonorable mentions: Luke Scott (1B/DH) - .154/.214/.154/.368 in four games; Lou Montanez (LF/RF) - hitless in three games; Mark Hendrickson (LHP) - 3.1 IP, 4 ER, 8.10 ERA, two inherited runners scored; Brian Matusz (LHP) - 5.0 IP, 6 ER, eight hits allowed; Alberto Castillo (LHP) - three games, 1.1 IP, 3 R + one inherited runner, 1 HR. | |
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Good job
I salute your ability to find positives in a week like that. At least it’s still fun to watch Nick play ball.
Not exaggeration
It took more than an hour to pull this together. I think I melted b-r.com in the process. I pulled up and ran the selection function for just about every member of the active roster, plus Meredith. That sum selection function on game logs might be the best invention in the history of the internet, by the way. OK, maybe second. :)
The second toughest part of this, after finding “Ups” for the week, was narrowing down who the main six “Downs” would be, and putting everyone else in dishonorable mention.
When you watch the Orioles every night, a beer after dinner turns into a six pack WAY too many times. Stacey
Haha
Yeah I was wondering where the line was drawn between the downs and the dishonorable mentions. And b-r.com is the greatest. Sean Forman who started it was actually my calculus professor in college before he left to work on the website full time. He was a good teacher, but I think we all would agree he made the right move.
Formatting question...
You folks OK with the smaller type for each entry? I did it because I liked the way it looked on Jasper’s Rink, not I’m not sure if regular type wouldn’t be easier to read. Then again, I’m almost 42, so maybe it’s just my problem.
Thoughts?
When you watch the Orioles every night, a beer after dinner turns into a six pack WAY too many times. Stacey
Barely noticed,
and didnt have any trouble reading it. Since it didnt negatively affect me at all, i’d say keep it since these posts can get a bit long. Won’t bump as much stuff off the front page.
agreed
I didn’t notice the smaller type.
by Gorilla Bird on May 31, 2010 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Will take under advisement
Next week, I may try with regular font. If I remember.
When you watch the Orioles every night, a beer after dinner turns into a six pack WAY too many times. Stacey
Looks good to me. One can always increase the font size on the browser if the text appears too small.
Good work as always, duck. I enjoy this feature.
"Do not be afraid to ask for credit, for our way of refusing is very polite."
by Laich It Or Lump It on Jun 1, 2010 8:09 AM EDT up reply actions
Guess we mised our chance to trade Luke on an upswing.
Oh well maybe he’ll have another 6 game hot streak in 5-6 weeks.
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
O's play the Tigers from July 5th to 7th
He should hit .600 with 7 HRs in that series
"I'd like to do something. We all would here," he added. "As I've said before, you just don't want to do anything stupid that you're thinking in May, 'What in the God's green earth was I thinking about?'" - Andy MacPhail 12/8/09
Yup, and he will certainly be on my fantasy team for that series
Make the world a better place; punch a Yankee fan in the face!
by PBR me ASAP! on May 31, 2010 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions
walks don't get you any points?
"Being an Orioles fan is like having very painful genital warts."
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
The Signing Bonus: We're back in business.
by danielreese05 on May 31, 2010 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Not usally.
It’s usually steals, runs, RBI’s, homers and average.
Everyone thought Baltimore was three easy wins and we got our ass kicked three times. - Dustin Pedroia, After the Red Sox got swept by the Orioles.
by BaltimoreSportsFan on May 31, 2010 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
in our league a walk is a point
"Being an Orioles fan is like having very painful genital warts."
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
The Signing Bonus: We're back in business.
by danielreese05 on May 31, 2010 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Thank you for putting this together.
This is certainly not the week this feature was designed for, but it was very well done. I noticed that Wigginton was taking a lot of walks this week, but I didn’t realize he was on base quite that often. Also, I would never have known it was possible for a player to have an OBP lower than his BA. I really feel bad for Adam Jones, and I wonder what the hell happened to his batting eye.
"MONTANEZ: Alas! I cannot hit. Deal with it."
-Eat More Esskay
Thanks for the kind words
I’ve always enjoyed the feature at JapersRink.com, and asked them if they minded if I totally stole it. They said fine. It’s actually somewhat fun to do. Usually confirms what I already thought about how people are doing.
When you watch the Orioles every night, a beer after dinner turns into a six pack WAY too many times. Stacey
With the way we're playing, it'll start to become
Bird Up, O’s Down.
Everyone thought Baltimore was three easy wins and we got our ass kicked three times. - Dustin Pedroia, After the Red Sox got swept by the Orioles.
by BaltimoreSportsFan on May 31, 2010 6:20 PM EDT reply actions
B2B on being in birds up:
"Being an Orioles fan is like having very painful genital warts."
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
The Signing Bonus: We're back in business.
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