Baltimore Orioles Baseball
Intro to Sabermetrics: wOBA
Over the early part of this season we'll be rolling out a series of posts that helps explain some of the advanced statistics we use here at BSL. In order to do that we'll be using a familiar lens: the Orioles. These first few posts will primarily look at last year's...
Baseball’s True Power Hitters
Power is at a premium in today's Major League Baseball. In a suppressed run environment, a player who can add runs to the scoreboard in the purest sense is a valued asset to any team hoping to contend in the postseason. Home runs, in fact, might be more important than...
Orioles & MLB Preview – BSL Roundtable
As the Baltimore Orioles prepare to begin their 2015 season, BSL's O's Analysts (Jonathan Bernhardt, Patrick Dougherty, Jeff Long, and myself) have come together roundtable style to preview the year.(You can discuss this on the BSL Board here.)Question 1) The Orioles...
Baltimore Orioles 2015: The Worst Case Scenario
Now that Patrick has shared with you a glorious vision of the future wherein Baltimore repeats as AL East champions, I’ve been tasked to come in and rain on the parade a little bit. I don’t think Baltimore will be quite as bad as I make them out to be here -- and I...
Baltimore Orioles 2015: The Best Case Scenario
Someone in the Warehouse must have their office decorated with horseshoes, rabbits' feet, and four-leaf clovers. Or maybe the front office knows something the projection systems don't. Or maybe these Orioles players are better than anyone thought. It's hard to tell...
Local Blogs Discuss The Orioles
There are numerous quality local blogs. Baltimore Sports and Life (BSL) has reached out to some of them for their thoughts on the Baltimore Orioles forthcoming season.BSL suggests you check out each of their sites, and thanks them for taking the time to respond.Those...
The Orioles’ Four Lineups
With the MLB season just a few days away, talk among the fanbase is heating up about real actual baseball topics. Instead of things like service time people are discussing lineups and rotations and the like. My goal is to go through and identify the most optimized an...
Steve Pearce’s Mechanical Changes
We've all thought about it at some point this offseason. There's no way that Steve Pearce can maintain the offensive performance that he put up last season, right? I mean, he came out of the blue and crushed the ball on his way to being the best hitter on the team....