Before the Cleveland series, Baltimore was on pace to finish with a minus-387 run differential, which would be by far the worst in MLB history. That all-around awfulness engenders more comparisons to history. Overall, Orioles position players have been worth just 1.2 wins above replacement combined, 29th in the majors their pitchers have been worth just 0.6 WAR, which ranks 30th. (If Gleyber Torres played against only the 2019 Orioles, against whom he’s bashed 10 homers in 11 starts, he might actually hit 91.)
The gap between those two numbers is massive, so even with some positive regression the O’s should set the mark with room to spare it’s so massive that, for context, for a player to break Barry Bonds’s record of 73 single-season homers by the same margin, he’d need to bash 91 dingers. Overall, Baltimore is on pace to allow 320 home runs this year, which would obliterate the record of 258 set by the 2016 Reds. Dan Straily’s allowed 22 homers in 47 2/3 innings, David Hess 20 in 66, the injured Alex Cobb nine in just 12 1/3. That’s not quite a record, but the Orioles’ homer problems should be.
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Over a full season, the Orioles’ 5.82 team ERA would be the ninth-worst in MLB history, and the worst since the 1999 Rockies. The bullpen hasn’t fared much better, with closer Mychal Givens struggling to rein in both walks and homers en route to a 5.06 ERA overall, the pen ranks 30th in WAR, 29th in ERA, and 28th in WPA. But every other Oriole who has made a start this season beyond that trio-a group 10 deep-has combined for a 7.52 ERA and allowed 2.9 homers per nine innings. Means has seven of Baltimore’s 24 wins, and fellow starters Andrew Cashner and Dylan Bundy have at least pitched with intermittent effectiveness between bouts of home run trouble. Before this season, Means was a non-prospect: an 11th-round draft pick in 2014 with a career 3.83 ERA in the minors, whose best showing on any Orioles prospect list was 28th in 2017, prior to going unranked before both the 20 seasons. On the pitching side, rookie left-hander John Means is headed to the All-Star Game on the strength of a 2.50 ERA and one of the majors’ best changeups. The defense remains disastrous after trending that way last season, and Orioles catchers rate among the worst framers in the league. (37 wRC+, all in the majors) have foundered at the plate, and Chris Davis (42) has written a tragedy all by himself. In the former, Trey Mancini (135 wRC+) has prospered while young players like center fielder Cedric Mullins II (-10 wRC+ in the majors 51 in the minors) and shortstop Richie Martin Jr. But none of 2019’s other tanking teams can match the 24-60 Orioles loss for loss, and home run allowed for mammoth home run allowed.Ī survey of Baltimore’s roster reveals that both the lineup and pitching staff boast one, and only one, bright spot. The 2019 season is congested with teams vying for the bottom of the standings, and that traffic has produced some stretches of truly terrible baseball: The Marlins inspired some “worst ever” chatter this spring after a 10-31 start, and the Tigers might be headed that way after a 5-20 June. Through the Orioles’ other 82 games thus far, though, Baltimore has looked like the worst team in baseball-and one of the worst in baseball history. For two days, Cleveland made Baltimore look like the best team in baseball. On Saturday, they repeated the feat, with the same final score-marking the first time in MLB history that one team had won consecutive shutouts with at least 13 runs scored in each game. Yet on Friday, Baltimore walloped visiting Cleveland 13-0. And they hadn’t won any game by more than four runs since one of those wins against Chicago.
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They hadn’t won any series since taking two of three from the White Sox in April. The Orioles hadn’t won consecutive games since early May. 314/.391/.500 in the Bronx.īut nothing from the first three months of the 2019 season was more ignominious than Cleveland’s performance in Baltimore this weekend.
In April, in intense need of outfield help, Cleveland sent Cameron Maybin to the injury-ravaged Yankees for nothing more than cash in return, and the veteran outfielder has responded by hitting. It’s been a tumultuous season for Cleveland, what with management’s miserly misery, José Ramírez’s collapse from superstar to replacement-level hitter, and the Twins’ surge atop the AL Central standings.
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