Official 2012 Baltimore Orioles Thread

[Hitman21ST]

The 2012 season is almost upon us. With Pitchers and Catchers reporting, you can almost hear the crack of the bats and taste the pretzels and beer.

I'll start the thread by posting some rankings for the Orioles:

Batting

• Runs: 708 (14th)
• Batting Average: .257 (11th)
• OBP: .316 (19th)
• Slugging: .413 (9th)

Pitching

• ERA: 4.89 (30th)
• Quality Starts: 60 (30th)
• WHIP: 1.45 (30th)
• BAA: .277 (29th)

Sorry for the depressing pitching stats. However, the offensive production is there, we just need the pitching to back it up. If that comes around, we should get significantly better than the perennial cellar dwellers that we've been recently.

[MattFancy]

If we have any chance this year, our young pitching will need to step up. Our season and future is riding on the arms of Britton, Arrieta, Matusz, and Tillman.

[G.A.C.O.L.B.]

Hey if you all need an ace, the Nats 6th starter is available. Just let us know.

[pjfootballer]

Great. First day of Spring Training and the Nats fans are trolling our new thread already. We've sunken to a new low as a franchise.

Bump back to the first page.

[MattFancy]

Pretty fair assessment of the team: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/20...imore-orioles/

[pjfootballer]

Sad...but fair.

[capcrunch98]

Hey if you all need an ace, the Nats 6th starter is available. Just let us know.

Considering the Nats have yet to accomplish anything (other than providing great seats for Phillies and Mets, and sometimes Orioles fans), I'd recommend you hold onto your players. As Orioles fans from past years know, a team that looks good on paper doesn't always deliver on the field.

[MattFancy]

Sad...but fair.

This season is all about our young pitchers, we go as they go. I don't believe that they are as bad as they were last year. So we'll see. Still have 0 expectations and anything over 62 wins will be decent in my book for this team.

[capcrunch98]

Reluctantly, I can accept another sunken season and a top 5 draft pick as long as our prospects continue to develop and cornerstones Weiters, Jones, and Markakis stay productive.

As with every year, I'm just hoping for a .500 record by Memorial Day, so that the games still matter up until the All-Star break.

[TD_washingtonredskins]

Reluctantly, I can accept another sunken season and a top 5 draft pick as long as our prospects continue to develop and cornerstones Weiters, Jones, and Markakis stay productive.

As with every year, I'm just hoping for a .500 record by Memorial Day, so that the games still matter up until the All-Star break.

Yep...I usually root for a quick start to keep me interested deeper into the spring or, if I'm lucky, summer. Then, when we do win games, I want it to be because a younger player does something. Back when Mora, Millar, or Scott would drive in the game-winning runs it would feel hollow.

[rictus58]

If we have any chance this year, our young pitching will need to step up. Our season and future is riding on the arms of Britton, Arrieta, Matusz, and Tillman.

Notice how quickly the 2011 season went down the tubes when the pitching coach quit on them?

[Rocky21]

Hey The O's are the Kings of April.

[TD_washingtonredskins]

Hey The O's are the Kings of April.

The first week/week-and-a-half of it, anyway.

[G.A.C.O.L.B.]

Considering the Nats have yet to accomplish anything (other than providing great seats for Phillies and Mets, and sometimes Orioles fans), I'd recommend you hold onto your players. As Orioles fans from past years know, a team that looks good on paper doesn't always deliver on the field.

Lol. I'm not trying to talk **** O's fans. It's not a fair fight and I'm no bully. But seriously, we just don't have room for Lannan so it's not a question of holding onto players. We're ass deep in starting pitchers and someone's gotta go. That someone is looking like Lannan.

Serious question: When's the last time the O's looked "good on paper"?

[Chump Bailey]

Serious question: When's the last time the O's looked "good on paper"?

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