GDT: 3/3 Baltimore Orioles @ Toronto Blue Jays (1:37 ET)

[Jarry]

Manoah motivated Baltimore yesterday with needless yapping

[Daniel Labude]

Looks at schedule :

 

4 straight games in Tampa

 

8 more straight series vs teams above .500

[Horses Fart]

What a f***ing mess of a team right now. Shameful. Time for a closed door meeting??? Wouldn’t do much anyways.

[Daniel Labude]

What a f***ing mess of a team right now. Shameful. Time for a closed door meeting??? Wouldn’t do much anyways.

 

They did that for the hitters 2 days ago

[G-Snarls]

Feels like they need a good team psychiatrist. 6-63 with RISP the past 6 games seems like a mental thing. Vlady also putting too much pressure on himself in front of the home crowd.

 

 

I'll take "road Vladdy" in Tampa please

[MikeM3]

Got laughed at last year for saying Orioles would clear us quickly

[Stottlemyres_Bloody_Chin]

Got laughed at last year for saying Orioles would clear us quickly

 

Yep don't you dare take a pessimistic view on things or you'll have Spanx and a few of his dogs after you.

 

They love to make fun of takes like yours but then it's crickets when they are proven wrong and you're proven right.

[Stottlemyres_Bloody_Chin]

This team just isn't fun to watch right now. I'm holding out hope that we can turn it around.

[Carlos Danger]

Got laughed at last year for saying Orioles would clear us quickly

 

Last year?? There were guys on here as recent as a week or two ago telling us Baltimore "sucks"!!!

[polar bear]

We are going on a huge winning streak starting tomorrow

 

With zero clutch hitting,I very much doubt it.

[Olerud363]

Feels like they need a good team psychiatrist. 6-63 with RISP the past 6 games seems like a mental thing. Vlady also putting too much pressure on himself in front of the home crowd.

 

 

Or maybe the coach isnÂ’t doing a good job helping them play loose? Or itÂ’s just a streak of bad luck.

 

Vladdy's has hit like a legend in Sahlen (Buffalo), Tor TD (Dunnedin), Fenway, Yankee Stadium Camden, like Darlton Varsho in Tropicana and very mediocre at Rogers Center.

 

It might be nothing, his great season just happened to be that year for other reasons. Checked and he hit about the same home/away last year, his only full year at Rogers Center.

 

TOR-Rogers Ctr .264 .329 .460 .790

TOR-Sahlen Field .322 .398 .656 1.054

BOS-Fenway Pk 37 .345 .434 .592 1.025

NYY-Yankee Stad3 .296 .354 .614 .968

TBR-TropicanaFld .215 .287 .315 .602

BAL-Camden Yards .341 .389 .564 .952

TOR-TD Ballpark 21 .410 .521 .897 1.418

[Terminator]

We got boat raced by Kyle Gibson, a struggling rookie and Dean Kremer.

 

Are you guys tipping your caps to Baltimore and admitting they have the better team or is it more of a situation where the Jays sucked ass?

[G-Snarls]

We got boat raced by Kyle Gibson, a struggling rookie and Dean Kremer.

 

Are you guys tipping your caps to Baltimore and admitting they have the better team or is it more of a situation where the Jays sucked ass?

 

They sucked ass for two weeks.

 

They're not bad.

 

Even great teams have periods where they sick. But really good teams don't usually suck for stretches this long

[MikeM3]

Yep don't you dare take a pessimistic view on things or you'll have Spanx and a few of his dogs after you.

 

They love to make fun of takes like yours but then it's crickets when they are proven wrong and you're proven right.

 

I'm a die hard Jays fan but our team building is AA level unsustainable or even moreso because nowadays AA pulls prospects out of his ass. We were supposed to be getting the guy that built like the Os are building now and all we got was discount double check AA. Makes good major league transactions to band aid and band aid and band aid.

[Spanky99]

Yep don't you dare take a pessimistic view on things or you'll have Spanx and a few of his dogs after you.

 

They love to make fun of takes like yours but then it's crickets when they are proven wrong and you're proven right.

 

I've been saying the lolorioles would be good for a long time now, but...

 

[Terminator]

They sucked ass for two weeks.

 

They're not bad.

 

Even great teams have periods where they sick. But really good teams don't usually suck for stretches this long

 

That's my point. Everyone wants to crown the Orioles as the new titans of the division but they swept us while throwing a struggling rookie and two garbage pitchers at us while batting Adam Frazier 5th. Are they really that good or did we just suck?

[Spanky99]

That's my point. Everyone wants to crown the Orioles as the new titans of the division but they swept us while throwing a struggling rookie and two garbage pitchers at us while batting Adam Frazier 5th. Are they really that good or did we just suck?

 

They sucked Term, lol.

[Key22]

Swept by Boston and Baltimore and lost 3/4 to the Yankees - the game we won we we were shut out through 9. Bassitt stole us a game. We beat Atlanta but their defence lost them their games rather than us actually beating them.

 

Garcia is a $5m dollar reliever that Houston let walk away because they didn't feel he was worth that - in other words, he wasn't good enough to make their pen. He's our number 2/3 arm. I know some are slaves to WAR but BP arms matter. But big arms in the pen are tough to get and our farm isn't brimming with talent to trade.

[Stangstag]

Yep don't you dare take a pessimistic view on things or you'll have Spanx and a few of his dogs after you.

 

They love to make fun of takes like yours but then it's crickets when they are proven wrong and you're proven right.

 

I still think the Jays finish ahead of the Orioles this season, 1 series doesn’t change my mind

 

However next year and beyond I think it will be a coin toss on who is better

[Olerud363]

That's my point. Everyone wants to crown the Orioles as the new titans of the division but they swept us while throwing a struggling rookie and two garbage pitchers at us while batting Adam Frazier 5th. Are they really that good or did we just suck?

 

Adam Frazier could be replaced by Jackson Holliday in a few weeks. People (myself included) that think the Orioles could be a powerhouse as of now, think that Rodriquez will be good soon, that Tyler Bradish and Wells are decent, that one way or another Adam Frazier won't be hitting 5th regularly, and that they have the prospects and payroll space for additions as soon as this trade deadline.

 

Edit: The thought is they are also a Tampa Bay Rays level organization who can make the most out of s***ing 5 inning pitchers by using their bullpen well.

[Terminator]

Adam Frazier could be replaced by Jackson Holliday in a few weeks. People (myself included) that think the Orioles could be a powerhouse as of now, think that Rodriquez will be good soon, that Tyler Bradish and Wells are decent, that one way or another Adam Frazier won't be hitting 5th regularly, and that they have the prospects and payroll space for additions as soon as this trade deadline.

 

Edit: The thought is they are also a Tampa Bay Rays level organization who can make the most out of s***ing 5 inning pitchers by using their bullpen well.

 

Yeah that makes sense. But it's not a foregone conclusion that every prospect pans out or that they effectively build a rotation. They basically have a couple of depth arms and a good prospect who is no guarantee to pan out (Rodriguez). If Rodriguez pans out they still need 3 to 4 more starters. If he doesn't pan out they basically need 5.

[bones10]

on a positive note, Pearson has looked effective and Springer is coming out of his slump it seems. The team is just in a skid, they're not this bad.

[TorontonianJD]

Hopefully Chapman gets hot again so he has some trade value at the deadline

 

The Jays brass can only hope.

[Spanky99]

Adam Frazier could be replaced by Jackson Holliday in a few weeks. People (myself included) that think the Orioles could be a powerhouse as of now, think that Rodriquez will be good soon, that Tyler Bradish and Wells are decent, that one way or another Adam Frazier won't be hitting 5th regularly, and that they have the prospects and payroll space for additions as soon as this trade deadline.

 

Edit: The thought is they are also a Tampa Bay Rays level organization who can make the most out of s***ing 5 inning pitchers by using their bullpen well.

 

No way. Agree with the rest, though.

[Olerud363]

No way. Agree with the rest, though.

 

The only thing I remember that was comparable was Juan Soto and he was called up after about 40 games of this. Like 15 at low, 15 at a, and only 8 and aa.

[thatoneguy]

Man this team looks incompetent right now. Schneider's chair has to be getting warm and Atkins' might start as well.

[Omar]

We were awful at the beginning of May last year as well. We're getting good starting pitching but all of our bats cooled at the same time and there is a vacuum with risp. It's a slump. We will pull out of it. Are we going to win the east? Doesn't look like it, we didn't make hay while the sun was shining. This is still a playoff capable team. Once in, we can beat anybody in a short series; anybody.

[Jonn]

We were awful at the beginning of May last year as well. We're getting good starting pitching but all of our bats cooled at the same time and there is a vacuum with risp. It's a slump. We will pull out of it. Are we going to win the east? Doesn't look like it, we didn't make hay while the sun was shining. This is still a playoff capable team. Once in, we can beat anybody in a short series; anybody.

 

The difference this year is the entire division has taken a step forward. I don't expect the Red Sox to ultimately be that good but they can definitely float a few games over .500 the whole season. The Orioles look pretty legit and are primed to add Starting Pitching whenever it becomes available.

[TimInBC]

For me it isn't that the whole team sucks. It's almost as if they suck only enough to lose the game, but no more.

 

Most of the guys who weren't hitting are coming around; the starting pitching has been mostly OK after a bumpy start. But now Romano's slipping, Vladdy's forgotten how to hit again, Varsho was never much of a hitter, and we just can't get people across the plate. I can't see management being patient with Schneider (although Mattingly has a .483 record as a manager and isn't an automatic replacement).

[WryNGinger]

We were awful at the beginning of May last year as well. We're getting good starting pitching but all of our bats cooled at the same time and there is a vacuum with risp. It's a slump. We will pull out of it. Are we going to win the east? Doesn't look like it, we didn't make hay while the sun was shining. This is still a playoff capable team. Once in, we can beat anybody in a short series; anybody.

 

Yah, just need to get in. I like our chances with Gausman and Bassitt as 1 and 2 to start a series.

 

This boards "I told you this team sucked" crowd thumping their chests after some s***** games is f***ing hilarious.