If Jerry Hairston is a regular player on your team…that isn’t good.
Jerry’s not having any worse a season than Tejada.
I suppose this actually makes Baltimore marginally worse, if that’s even possible. They are quite honestly the most miserable ballclub I have ever seen.
That would be Andy Marte, the infielder. The only Tribe pitcher not to walk a batter. 89 mph fastball. Nice job, Andy! Maybe I’ll pitch tomorrow!
Rangers just acquired Jorge Cantu from the Marlins. Since Kinsler is on the DL and they just sent Davis back down to make room for the rookie Moreland, I’m not sure if he’ll be in at first or second. Either way, it’s nice to have another good bat.
RickJay:
Then you must not have watched the Royals this week (the most recent game of which was a loss to those wretched Orioles).
If not for the imminent arrival of my 1985 World Series DVD set, I’d consider this to be the worst week to be a Royals fan, ever.
As bad as the Royals are, I am firmly convinced the Orioles are, right now, the most hopeless ballclub ever assembled to play Major League Baseball in my living memory.
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They are objectively a far worse team than the Royals right now. They’re ten games behind KC, for starters. Their offense is much worse than Kansas City’s, scoring more than half a run game less. Their pitching and defense is just as bad.
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None of their run-scoring and -allowing numbers are a fluke. The Orioles do NOTHING well. They don’t hit for average, they don’t hit for power. They don’t run the bases well. They do’t hit doubles or triples. Their pitchers “lead” the league in hits and home runs allowed, walk a fair number of guys, and don’t strike anyone out. They make errors, don’t turn the double play, and very few of their fielders have anything resembling range.
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If this team has any hope for the future I don’t see it. People seem to think they’re a young team, but actually, they’re not; their players are dead league average in age (this might now change a little with Tejada, who’s 36, traded.) They have basically two really good young guys in the lineup, Wieters and Jones, and neither guy is really playing all that well right now. They have one good young pitcher, Brian Matusz, and he’s been terrible.
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They have no stars. Most teams have at least one star. The Orioles’ best player is a 32-year-old DH who’s hit 17 homers. Wheeeee. Looking at the roster I actually had trouble figuring out who in God’s name would have been named to the All-Star team (it was Ty Wigginton, for some reason.)
The Royals are bad, but they’re not as bad as the Orioles.
I’d assume he would play first. He was a terrible 2nd baseman back when he played it and he hasn’t played it in a couple years.
But the Orioles have now signed Buck Showalter.
That’ll turn the whole franchise around. Yessirree! 
RickJay:
Overall, I’m sure you’re right. The Orioles’ record is indeed worse (though they do have the liability of playing more games against the AL East monsters than the Royals do) and the Royals have constructed a minor league pipeline that could make a good looking product at the K within the next year or two. But when your team gets crushed by the Yankees over the weekend and loses its best hitter/trading chip (albeit with one win mixed in there), and you console yourself that at least your ace, who was not schedules for the Yankee series, is pitching the next game, and said ace lights a fire that becomes a 19-1 loss, then after getting swept embarrassingly by the Twins, you console yourself that the O’s should at least be beatable, and then lose to them…
It’s been a rotten baseball week. (sigh) But you’re right, the overall outlook in Kansas City is probably better than that in Baltimore.
I didn’t know that. The Rangers have been touting him for both, so I guess that really means Moreland will be the man at second until Ian comes back.
I see your Orioles and raise you my Mariners. Sweet Jeebus, I swear their July schedule has had them playing almost nothing but 1st- and 2nd-place teams, and as much suck as the M’s have been generating this season, their schedule is just making things look worse:
vs. Yankees - 5 games
vs. Angels - 4 games
vs. Red Sox - 4 games
vs. White Sox - 7 freakin’ games
vs. Twins - 2 games
28 games in July, and every opponent except KC has a record of .500 or better.
And even against the bad teams … we got swept by the motherlovin’ Kansas City Royals! I’ve turned off more games in disgust this month than I’ve listened to 'til the end. It’s one thing just get beat - I’ll stick with a game in that situation. But this year’s Mariners seem to be actually trying to lose.
Sigh. Okay, looking at the overall standings, I see the Mariners are only the 4th worst team in baseball.
Don’t they have to fire him, after which they win the World Series?:dubious:
Its really too bad too because the Orioles have one of the nicest damn ballparks in the entire league.
…and for some reason I thought that that sentence would look better like Their “pitchers” lead the league in hits and home runs allowed
Well, pretty much anything would.
One less possible place for Boston to dump Mike Lowell, not that there were all that many. He comes off the DL as soon as today, and look for him to be simply DFA’d. Time to quit fooling.
Worst baseball-related story. Ever.
Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, sorry, I should put a [Warning: Disgusting] disclaimer in there.
I kinda disagree with this (unfortunately, since I’m a Royals fan).
As a team they sure don’t. But they have a number of players that are good (or, at least, *should *be good).
Average age is meaningless - many teams fill in the gaps with old guys. And yeah - Wieters and Jones ARE really good, and they’re also really young. Condemning them now for playing below expectations as 24 year olds is more than premature.
They’re worse than the Royals now, but they’re not nearly as hopeless. (Unless you factor in their division, in which case yeah - they have no hope…)
Sometimes being versatile just means you can just do multiple things badly
Anyways the Rangers went and picked up C Guzman today who assumably will be their temporary 2nd baseman.