The Orioles hosted the 2009 AL Central Division champs today, with Brian Matusz making his second Spring Training appearance against Kevin Slowey of the Twins. Read the rest of this entry >>
Tags: Brian Matusz, Game Log, Garrett Atkins, Luke Scott, Matt Wieters, Mike Gonzalez, Mike Hinckley, Orioles, Twins
For those of you that may not know, MLB Notebook closed up shop recently. I really enjoyed posting there, and wanted to thank Zach Sanders for bringing me aboard. Sometimes when a door closes, a window opens however (or whatever the expression is), and luckily for me the kind folks at Beyond the Box Score offered me a place at their (awesome) site. My first post is up there now, where I looked at pitches thrown off outside edge of the strike-zone and their called strike percentages based on the location and call of the previous pitch. An excerpt’s below; click through for the full version. Read the rest of this entry >>
Tags: Beyond The Box Score, Pitch/FX
Finally, some televised baseball! MASN is only having four of the O’s Spring Training games on TV, and they’re all against the Yankees or Red Sox. This one has Jeremy Guthrie starting things out against Boston. Read the rest of this entry >>
Tags: Armando Gabino, David Hernandez, Game Log, Jeremy Guthrie, Miguel Abreu, Nick Markakis, Orioles, Red Sox, Will Ohman
It’s a battle of aces, as the O’s have Kevin Millwood starting against Justin Verlander. Read the rest of this entry >>
Tags: Brandon Erbe, Cla Meredith, Game Log, Kevin Millwood, Matt Albers, Orioles, Rhyne Hughes, Tigers, Ty Wigginton
Moving from a fellow AL East team to a follow long-streak-of-losing-seasons team, the O’s hosted the Pirates in Sarasota. Read the rest of this entry >>
Tags: Adam Jones, Alfredo Simon, Chorye Spoone, Chris Tillman, Game Log, Jake Arrieta, Luis Lebron, Miguel Tejada, Mike Gonzalez, Nick Markakis, Orioles, Pirates
In part one of these posts, I took a look at what effects walk rate. Part two was Nick’s general swing rates and splits. Part three was some more detail of swing rates on the fastball in particular. In part four, we looked at how things went in three-ball counts. So far we’ve got that some of the following information:
* This post, unfortunately, doesn’t break that pattern.
Tags: Nick Markakis, Pitch/FX
In part one of these posts, I took a look at what effects walk rate. Part two was Nick’s general swing rates and splits. Part three was some more detail of swing rates on the fastball in particular. That’s a piece of the puzzle, but it’s the end result – the 45% drop in walk rate, from working a BB in 13.3%* of his PA to just 7.9% – that was the actual hit to Markakis’ value to the team. How did that happen? Read the rest of this entry >>
Tags: Nick Markakis, Pitch/FX
After a 12-2 victory for the O’s to open up their Spring Training schedule in their new Sarasota home, the team goes over to the Rays park for game two. Read the rest of this entry >>
Tags: Brian Matusz, Felix Pie, Game Log, Jason Berken, Kam Mickolio, Koji Uehara, Mark Hendrickson, Orioles, Pedro Florimon, Rays, Rhyne Hughes, Sean Rodriguez, Wilfrido Perez
With Spring Training having begun and the start of the season right around the corner, I though I’d hold a little giveaway here. How it works* is this:
XX O’s Wins RT @CamdenCrazies Follow, ReTweet, & predict the # of O’s wins for a chance to win a $25 MLB.com gift-card http://bit.ly/cJsy2S
Where the XX is the number of games you think the Orioles are going to win in 2010.
I know a lot of readers aren’t on Twitter, but I recommend it – if only so we can converse during Orioles games, which I’ll often be tweeting during instead of live-blogging as I sometimes did last season. If you want to sign-up just for this, that’s cool too. Feel free to say hey though.
* I’m personally not a huge fan of these types of “follow me on Twitter and I’ll give you stuff” promotions, but seeing as how I won the Most Active Blog award in large part due to conversing with people via Twitter, I thought it would be nice to reward those people for making me look good.
I know things have been a little (extra) stat-detailed lately, so I thought I’d point to a couple of place on the InterTubes where I recently weighed in a more basic manner on Orioles stuff.
First up, a guest post at the Fantasy Lounge about the improvements in the Orioles’ starting rotation from 2009 to 2010, and the potential for the future. The intro:
“The Baltimore Orioles are in the midst of a streak of 12 straight losing seasons, and a big reason for that has been some bad pitching – especially starting pitching. Going in to last year, the team had posted an ERA north of 5 for consecutive seasons, and every year I’d think “well, it has nowhere to go but down, right?” But then it wouldn’t really get worse. Since Andy MacPhail took over as general manager, he has emphasized developing pitching in the organization and O’s farm system has become flush with top pitching prospects. One can already see a big step forward at the major league level as well, even if the results on the field don’t completely bear it out yet.”
I also did a quick hit with Ray Flowers and Kyle Efrink at Fantasy Buffet about all sorts of O’s topics, including the series about Nick Markakis’ walk rate that I’m currently doing, Adam Jones’ injury history, who the best O’s starter will be in 2010, what we can expect from Garrett Atkins, Matt Wieters and Mike Gonzalez, and what would constitute a successful year for the team. I come on at around the 38 minutes mark.
Tags: Orioles
The happenings of the Baltimore Orioles.
Daniel Moroz, formerly of Frost King Baseball and founder of Matt Wieters Facts, uses statistics and sabermetric principles to analyze the goings on in Baltimore and around baseball while waiting for the Orioles to finally post another winning season.
