The Orioles had a bottom 10 outfield by public defensive metrics. Even worse, they had the lowest slugging percentage of all 30 MLB teams for their outfielders. Mike Elias’s plan of getting power out of his outfield with his free agent signing Tyler O’Neill, his trade acquisition Taylor Ward, and his draft picks Colton Cowser and Dylan Beavers, was a total bust. Between injuries and poor performances, there was a rotating cast of players, some of whom were just… so bad.
In contrast to last week’s
episode, where the Orioles relievers were better than expected, this outfield group was just so much worse than expected. Anybody could have guessed there were going to be defensive liabilities from the group going into the season. Even so, the magnitude was so much greater, and they sure didn’t get the power trade-off that Elias was probably imagining.
Check out this week’s episode where I run through all of the outfielders, who was good (was anyone?) and who wasn’t:
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