On to the Orioles!

[Brock Beauchamp]

It’s like free wins! Woof, that team is terrible. It will be quite disappointing if the Brewers aren’t .500 or better 72 hours from now. 

[Joseph Zarr]

I'm just here for more hypothetical Trey Mancini trade proposals and nostalgia from the by-gone era of 'Jorge Lopez is our best pitching prospect?!?' 

[Outlander]

Jean Carmona is still around from that Schoop trade but still low minors.

[sveumrules]

Orioles/Rays were the only sweep on Opening Weekend.

Hopefully we can help Baltimore keep their losing streak alive & get them three games closer to that 0-21 start they had in 1988.

Can only imagine what chatter was like on OrioleFan.net (er, OrioleFanatic.com) back then.

[owbc]

The Cubs series was a classic Craig Counsell-era result. Thoroughly outplayed and outscored, deserved to be swept, yet somehow they manage to win a game and head out on a positive note.

[jerichoholicninja]

Is the team that just beat us 2 out 3 that much worse though?

[Brock Beauchamp]

30 minutes ago, jerichoholicninja said:

Is the team that just beat us 2 out 3 that much worse though?

The Orioles occasionally take two of three from the Yankees. Any handful of games are not very indicative of talent level in baseball.

[sveumrules]

32 minutes ago, jerichoholicninja said:

Is the team that just beat us 2 out 3 that much worse though?

The Cubs are projected somewhere between 7-17 wins better than the Orioles this year.

BAL is projected for 60 (538 & BPro), 64 (ZiPS), 65 (ATC), 67 (FanGraphs) wins.

CHC is projected for 74 (ATC & BPro), 75 (FanGraphs), 77 (538 & ZiPS) wins.

The Orioles are projected last by all systems, like worse than the Pirates bad. But even with all that said, they will probably still win at least one of their next three games.

[RobDeer 45]

Hopefully it’s a get right type of series.  I’m very excited for their first game at Camden since 2003???  I instantly fell in love with this stadium when it opened and still love it.

[BruisedCrew]

2 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

The Orioles occasionally take two of three from the Yankees. Any handful of games are not very indicative of talent level in baseball.

In other words, no such thing as “like free wins”. Especially for an offense that is capable of being shut out in a game started by Justin Steele. 

[SeaBass]

1 hour ago, BruisedCrew said:

In other words, no such thing as “like free wins”. Especially for an offense that is capable of being shut out in a game started by Justin Steele. 

So any team can win any time except when Justin Steele starts a game? Seems like a flawed concept but ok.

[BruisedCrew]

1 minute ago, SeaBass said:

So any team can win any time except when Justin Steele starts a game? Seems like a flawed concept but ok.

Not what I said at all. 
 Simply saying that there is no such thing as a free win for any team that is capable of getting shut out against a pitcher like Justin Steele.

The flawed concept, which I assume was a joke, is the idea that there is such a thing as free wins.

[SeaBass]

It's definitely implied. Can't have it both ways.

And Justin Steele pitched 5 innings, there were 4 whole other innings that he stayed in the dugout.

[BruisedCrew]

10 minutes ago, SeaBass said:

It's definitely implied. Can't have it both ways.

And Justin Steele pitched 5 innings, there were 4 whole other innings that he stayed in the dugout.

Not having it both ways.

The fact that a supposedly bad team can win with Justin Steele starting illustrates that there is no such thing as a free win in baseball. 
 

You are reading something into my comment that was not stated or implied  

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Being shut out by the Orioles is very embarrassing. 

[wntrtxn21]

Being shut out in two of the first four games is very embarrassing. Getting shut out by two of the poorer teams in baseball is extremely worrisome.