Comments on: offense? http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2005/05/offense/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:25:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: David Carlton http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2005/05/offense/comment-page-1/#comment-2033 David Carlton Sat, 14 May 2005 03:20:47 +0000 /?p=92#comment-2033 It's been a while since I've heard Midre Cummings mentioned... It’s been a while since I’ve heard Midre Cummings mentioned…

]]> By: J. Ellenberg http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2005/05/offense/comment-page-1/#comment-2020 J. Ellenberg Thu, 12 May 2005 15:06:51 +0000 /?p=92#comment-2020 What's interesting about the 2005 Orioles is how quickly they've gone from a terribly operated team to a rather well-operated team. Where they shine especially is not in free-agent acquisitions (despite Tejada and Lopez and the absence of any real albatrosses) or player development (despite Roberts) but in picking up valuable players other teams just didn't want: Rodrigo Lopez, Melvin Mora, Bruce Chen and Jay Gibbons is a pretty nice group to get off the scrap heap. What we don't have is depth; with Sosa and Matos injured, and our next two outfielders on the depth chart (Val Majewski and Midre Cummings) out for the year, the Orioles are faced with the prospect of putting David Newhan and B.J. Surhoff out there every single day. Apparently they're calling up Fiorentino, who is just finishing up his first month above A ball (though he did massively crush the ball there...) What’s interesting about the 2005 Orioles is how quickly they’ve gone from a terribly operated team to a rather well-operated team. Where they shine especially is not in free-agent acquisitions (despite Tejada and Lopez and the absence of any real albatrosses) or player development (despite Roberts) but in picking up valuable players other teams just didn’t want: Rodrigo Lopez, Melvin Mora, Bruce Chen and Jay Gibbons is a pretty nice group to get off the scrap heap. What we don’t have is depth; with Sosa and Matos injured, and our next two outfielders on the depth chart (Val Majewski and Midre Cummings) out for the year, the Orioles are faced with the prospect of putting David Newhan and B.J. Surhoff out there every single day. Apparently they’re calling up Fiorentino, who is just finishing up his first month above A ball (though he did massively crush the ball there…)

]]> By: David Carlton http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2005/05/offense/comment-page-1/#comment-2019 David Carlton Thu, 12 May 2005 04:43:28 +0000 /?p=92#comment-2019 Yes, that's true. I have been wondering for the last year or so, though, if the A's aren't doing as good a job with their hitting as they could be, though. Their pitching always surprises: given how difficult pitching is to project, it can't be an accident that the A's keep on churning out top-notch prospects, so I suspect they have a really good coaching system in place. The flip side, though, is that I wonder if their hitting coaching might be sub-par, that they might be experimenting with coaching techniques that aren't so great in practice. Hard to say; it might all just be a fluke. The O's signing of Miguel Tejada certainly looks good, at any rate. Yes, that’s true. I have been wondering for the last year or so, though, if the A’s aren’t doing as good a job with their hitting as they could be, though. Their pitching always surprises: given how difficult pitching is to project, it can’t be an accident that the A’s keep on churning out top-notch prospects, so I suspect they have a really good coaching system in place. The flip side, though, is that I wonder if their hitting coaching might be sub-par, that they might be experimenting with coaching techniques that aren’t so great in practice. Hard to say; it might all just be a fluke.

The O’s signing of Miguel Tejada certainly looks good, at any rate.

]]> By: J. Ellenberg http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2005/05/offense/comment-page-1/#comment-2015 J. Ellenberg Tue, 10 May 2005 14:59:51 +0000 /?p=92#comment-2015 The A's are about as likely to keep hitting this badly as the Orioles are to keep hitting this well, which is to say, there's no chance. The A’s are about as likely to keep hitting this badly as the Orioles are to keep hitting this well, which is to say, there’s no chance.

]]>