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e 37 homers in 13 games. The 2019 season http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , folks!"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Commentary & AnalysisOrioles ProspectsOrioles Game RecapsOrioles News and RumorsCamdencastBird DroppingsFriday Bird Droppings: Where Orioles pitching is not great, you guysNew,795commentsThe Orioles have a 6.50 ERA and have given up an unfathomable 37 homers in 13 games. The 2019 season, folks!EDTShareTweetShareShareFriday Bird Droppings: Where Orioles pitching is not great, you guysWondering how many home runs the Orioles have given up? Just ask Dylan Bundy’s jersey number.Evan Habeeb-USA TODAY SportsGood morning, Camden Chatters.If you plan on going to an Orioles game anytime soon, be sure to watch your head when walking around the concourse. Balls tend to fly out of the yard when the Orioles are playing.Well, scratch that. Balls tend to fly out of the yard when the Orioles are pitching.The O’s set a dubious club record by coughing up a home run in their 13th straight game to start the season. And not just one home run — five of ‘em. Mark Brown recapped the latest long ball barrage.The Birds have given up a ridiculous 37 home runs this season, which not only leads all MLB teams, but leads all MLB teams by double digits. And we’re only 13 games into the season! The O’s are on pace to allow 461 homers this year. They probably won’t actually allow 461 homers. Probably.But they will, probably, be very bad at pitching all year long. The Orioles are currently carrying a 6.50 ERA, and their pitchers are dropping like flies, with Alex Cobb, Nate Karns, and Richard Bleier injured. Dylan Bundy is unable to keep batters in the ballpark, Miguel Castro and Mike Wright are sporting 11+ ERAs, and Dan Straily has made an uninspiring first impression. And there isn’t a lot of help on the horizon, either, with most of the Birds’ best pitching prospects toiling in the low minors, years away from Baltimore.If it’s any consolation, the rebuilding Orioles aren’t alone in their pitching struggles. The defending champion Red Sox, too, are sporting one of the league’s worst team ERAs Chad Bettis Jersey , and the two clubs are set to face off for a four-game wraparound series in Boston starting tonight.Be prepared for some high-scoring games.LinksDylan Bundy succumbs to the home run ball again as Orioles lose to A’s 8-5 - Baltimore SunFor what it’s worth, Bundy thinks he was carrying really good stuff for the first three innings. Three innings of good stuff would be more useful if he weren’t, you know, a starting pitcher.Bleier: “It’s just not working out for me or the team” - School of RochRichard Bleier is back on the injured list, and it sounds like he won’t be back for a while. There go the Orioles’ playoff hopes! Seriously, though, that’s a bummer for a guy who was expected to play a key role in the bullpen this year.Myriad Orioles Thoughts: The Chris Davis hitless saga marches on; Losing Bleier unfortunate but not unexpected; Scott is back – The AthleticSo why was Bleier on the Opening Day roster when it turns out he wasn’t fully healthy? Dan Connolly defends the decision, and also weighs in on fans’ more positive reaction to Chris Davis since the home opener.Baltimore Orioles: Yusniel Diaz Is Demanding All Of Your Attention - Birds WatcherThis year, tracking the Orioles’ prospects is probably going to be a lot more interesting than watching the big league club. Yusniel Diaz, in particular, is off to an intriguing start for Bowie.It’s a healthy new start for Orioles’ Hunter Harvey - BaltimoreBaseball.comHunter Harvey, too, is still young enough that he might just be intriguing. Perhaps this is the year he finally stays healthy and effective. Stranger things have happened.Orioles birthdays and historyIs today your birthday? Happy birthday! It’s the 33rd birthday of recent Oriole Brad Brach, who’s now with the Cubs and has a 1.50 ERA in five games. The O’s traded Brach during last year’s fire sale, receiving international bonus slot money in what amounted to a salary dump.A very happy 90th birthday to 1956 righty Mel Held, who appeared in four big league games. And today would have been the 86th birthday of 1960s catcher Charlie Lau, who died in 1984.On this day in 2016, the Orioles ran their record to a perfect 7-0 — the best start in franchise history — with a 9-5 win at Fenway Park led by two J.J. Hardy home runs. That was a pretty good year.On this day in 2013, the Orioles lost to the Yankees when, in the span of one inning, Adam Jones dropped a fly ball with the bases loaded to score three runs and then the O’s ran themselves into a triple play. That wasn’t such a good year. The final season of arguably the best center fielder Arizona has ever had was not the one anyone was hoping for."2018 rating: 6.482017 rating: 7.282018 salary: $7,750,0002018 performance: 113 games, 460 PA Jonathan Lucroy Jersey , .257/.316/.484 = .800 OPS, 106 OPS+, 110 wRC+, 2.5 bWAR, 2.5 fWAR2019 status: Free-agent with qualifying offer attached (offer declined)After the 2017 playoff season came to a close, a number of questions popped up surrounding the future of A.J. Pollock. Would the team keep him for 2019 and risk losing him to free agency? Would they trade him, trying to turn that one year of control and ability to make a qualifying offer into pieces for the future? Would Pollock be healthy enough to play significant time? Eventually, Arizona’s front office decided to try and build on the 2017 success and go for it all in 2018. This meant retaining potentially valuable trade pieces in Pollock and left-handed starter, Patrick Corbin.Over the first six weeks of the season, Pollock established himself as one of the few healthy, productive members of the Arizona offense. Through May 14, Pollock had batted .293/.349/.620 with 11 home runs for an OPS of .969. Simply put, he was getting the job done, regardless of position played. Pollock though, was continuing to play exceptional defense in center field on top of reminding the world just how dynamic a player he could be. During the span, he also swatted 10 doubles, three triples, and stole nine bases. In short, Pollock was performing like the Pollock of old, the 2015 version that put up a 7.2 bWAR season.But then things went south. Playing hard defensively, as he is known to do,Pollock dove for a sinking liner to center and missed. In the process, he managed to roll the thumb on his glove hand. The injury forced him to leave the game and sent Pollock to the DL.Pollock wound up missing the next six weeks of the season. When he came back, his swing was still noticeably off. Gone too was his power stroke. While neither Pollock or the team ever tried to deflect the performance issues to lingering effects from the thumb injury http://www.rockiesfanproshop.com/authentic-chad-bettis-jersey , it is difficult not to draw a straight-line conclusion from his thumb being injured to his swing being off and devoid of power when he returned.Pollock’s struggles at the plate over the last two months of the season coincided with Arizona’s swoon late-season swoon. The result is, Pollock took quite a bit of the blame for the team’s offensive woes. On the other hand, he continued to be strong defensively.While not necessarily the home run-robbing highlights of Jarrod Dyson, these are the sorts of plays that Pollock made on a routine basis. His ability to cover so much ground and his strong center fielder instincts were a big part of why the Diamondbacks were the nest defensive team in baseball in 2018.Despite Pollock’s struggles after returning from injury, he was not entirely absent. Just about the time people started writing him off, he would have a good game. This sort of play just served to irritate fans even more in the long run, as it was clear he still had the talent, but that he just wasn’t performing on the regular.By the time the season came to a close, fan reception of Pollock had soured badly. Despite this, Pollock did salvage some goodwill with his final strong performance of the season, which happened to come at home in the final game against the Dodger. On that night, Zack Greinke pitched six solid innings and Pollock backed him up with a two hit night, one of those hits a three-run homer deep to center field, high enough to make it onto the concourse.That’s not a bad night for his final home game as an Arizona Diamondback.OutlookAfter the season was over, the Arizona Diamondbacks made A.J. Pollock a qualifying offer. Unsurprisingly, Pollock turned the offer down. With the Diamondbacks trading away Paul Goldschmidt and also having a mandate to trim payroll, it seems unlikely that the Diamondbacks are even talking to Pollock’s agent about a potential return. Now, the Diamondbacks await news of how much Pollock signs for elsewhere. In order to maximize their return from making the qualifying offer, the Diamondbacks are rooting for Pollock to sign a deal worth more than $50 million. This seems like an almost sure thing to happen as it is rumored that the Mets, Reds, and Phillies are all showing significant interest in Pollock. When he does sign a deal worth more than $50 million, the Diamondbacks will net themselves another draft pick which will be located between the first round the the COmpetitive Balance A round of the draft.