The *Nationals* lead baseball in runs scored. Who is their hitting coach? Matt Borgschulte. So, how are they doing this? Preparation, playing match-ups, and their star hitters playing like stars. James Wood and CJ Abrams each have a wRC+ over 160 www.nytimes.com/athletic/730...

So Albernaz kinda sucks?

Double dong for Gunnar Blaze killing it with the bat & the glove Mayo heating up 3 double plays Even Tyler O’Neil did a good thing But I just can’t get over having star Adley back. Doubles machine. And totally guided Trey through a solid start Forget the record, I’m waking up like this tomorrow

Adley coaching up Trey and immediately getting out of a jam

If you're going to the #Orioles game tonight, please make sure to take a trip to the O's dugout and scream "WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU PLATOONING BASALLO?!" Thank you.

Tyler O'Neil has a 45 OPS+ right now and he's shockingly even worse against lefties, which is literally the only reason he's on the team. Let's just take THAT role, and give it to Cowser.

I mean what even is this team

Getting ready to re-litigate the Trevor Rogers trade

What I want to do to Adley every time he doesn’t challenge

Please keep throwing him middle-middle fastballs

Tyler O’Neil was slashing .056/.150/.056 vs lefties going into this game… Batting 5th!!

The Orioles are 9-16 since Elias said he was “bullish” about this team and that they’re moving in the right direction.

Poor Albernaz. A whole lot of nothing in this response, and justifiably so. Gonna be 4 more months of nothing answers.

"Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics... Analytics also entails applying data patterns toward effective decision-making." EFFECTIVE. DECISION-MAKING.

This feels almost exactly like last season

It’s almost as if this doesn’t matter much

Unfortunately I don’t think Elias is in any danger of losing his job. Doesn’t seem like Rubenstein cares even a little

A lot of Orioles fans will point to Mike Elias not signing an ace or doing anything significant to improve the starting rotation for 2 years. And they’re all correct. But why does Gunnar suck now? Why is the offense THIS bad? It’s not like an ace would get any run support from this garbage lineup.

At some point Gunnar gets removed from the leadoff spot right?

Might need to start posting this regularly.

I think I hate watching Gunnar now?

Just get the fucking surgery!!!

I feel like a mark for having believed the Orioles might be good this year. A pigeon. A clodhopper straight off the turnip cart. Absolute tenderfoot times. Complete greenhorn bullshit.

Don’t stop booing, O’s fans. Boo this team.

I can't believe I'm saying this but I think I trust Mike Bordick more than anyone in the Orioles front office

Evergreen

The Orioles have won 5 straight Bassitt games. I know that’s not indicative of anything but like, what

Every chance they get, the Orioles shove Mike Elias’ bullshit right back in his stupid face

I don’t think we need the rest of the weekend to draw that conclusion. And it’s not just that they aren’t as good as they thought they were. The O’s are legit bad. Top to bottom. Rotation sucks. Bullpen sucks. Defense sucks. Even Gunnar straight up sucks.

I for one am not enjoying the fact that this #Orioles team is bad. However, I do think it’s funny that this is happening just days after Mike Elias said he was bullish about them

But… but… what about the depth!?!

Maybe put Akin back on the IL?

Why can’t we just do this every game??

Sir, please refrain from using the term “liftoff”… some O’s fans might get triggered

I’m blown away every time Bassitt gets through 1 inning without any damage. Him going 5 scoreless feels like a goddam miracle!

This whole team is made up of post-2014 JJ Hardy

Extend Leody

I’m gonna be thinking about this for a long time

And Mike Elias thinks he’s a genius because he avoided having to pay Max Fried 28 AAV for the next 8 years What he’s doing is worse! He’s spending the same amount of money annually and not getting the good years!

Maybe THIS will be the season that changes Elias’ mind about signing 37-year-old pitchers

It’s almost as if when a pitcher gets older, the worse he gets.