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While he wasn’t the person throwing pitches http://www.marinersfanproshop.com/authentic-edgar-martinez-jersey , the results weren’t favorable."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Commentary & AnalysisOrioles ProspectsOrioles Game RecapsOrioles News and RumorsCamdencastCommentary & AnalysisOrioles pitching coach Doug Brocail didn’t have a lot of success in TexasNew,8commentsBrocail spent three years as pitching coach in Texas. While he wasn’t the person throwing pitches, the results weren’t favorable.ESTShareTweetShareShareOrioles pitching coach Doug Brocail didn’t have a lot of success in TexasKim Klement-USA TODAY SportsThere has been a lot of discussion about Orioles GM Mike Elias and manager Brandon Hyde building out 2019’s on-field coaching staff, which has yet to be formally announced by the club. This is because there is a new regime in town and fans are curious to see what type of people are chosen for these coaching positions. Also, we can’t discuss the non-existent signings of actual players. Either way, we found out on Tuesday that former Rangers pitching coach Doug Brocail was chosen as Roger McDowell’s replacement as pitching coach in Baltimore. Fans may remember him from his playing days, which spanned 15 MLB seasons. Prior to coaching in Texas for the past three seasons, he served as a coach in the Houston organization and met Mike Elias there. Brocail inherits a pitching staff that is coming off of a, shall we say, poor 2018 season. The staff’s ERA was a putrid 5.18, marking the second year in a row in which they finished last in that category. Their WHIP was a league-worst 1.50 and they gave up a league-worst 234 home runs. It wasn’t pretty.Will Brocail’s wisdom and teaching help the staff improve? The question of just how much impact coaches have on a team’s performance was tackled by our Tyler Young earlier this week. Good coaches obviously help. But at the end of the day, players are the ones hitting and pitching.Until we see how current Orioles progress under Brocail’s tutelage, the best we can do is analyze how his staff fared at his most recent job. Unfortunately, the numbers don’t paint a great picture. The Rangers’ team ERA was 4.37 and 4.66 in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Both of those placed Texas firmly in the bottom half of the league. If that isn’t bad enough, the 2018 ERA ballooned to 4.92, third worst in all of baseball. Sadly, the Rangers defenders are not the reason for these high numbers. Texas pitchers posted a FIP of 4.79 last season, suggesting that their pitching was slightly better than their ERA. But during Brocail’s first two seasons, the staffs actually posted FIPs higher than their ERA. It appears as though the defense made their pitching friends’ ERAs better than they should have been.One statistic I was particularly interested in was how well Brocail’s staffs threw strikes. Most Orioles fans would agree that Baltimore’s pitchers walked far too many batters in recent years. Giving offenses free baserunners is not a recipe for success. I was encouraged by what I saw from the Rangers 2018 staff. Despite pitching to an unsightly ERA of 4.92, they walked 3.1 batters per nine innings, good for eighth best in the majors. Not bad! Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case in 2017 and 2016. The Rangers walked more batters per game than the league average in both of those seasons. Perhaps the most troubling statistic from Brocail’s time in Texas is how many batters his staff struck out. In each of his three seasons, the Rangers ranked last in the MLB in strikeouts per nine innings. That included a 2017 mark of 6.9. The trend in baseball is moving quickly towards more strikeouts; the MLB average last season was 8.48. That number has rapidly increased. It is concerning that Brocail’s pitchers have not followed that trend. The Dallas media did not look on Brocail’s tenure favorably. When writing about the Rangers’ decision to move on from Brocail in November Mitch Haniger Jersey , Dallas Morning News’ reporter Evan Grant said that “he was brought in to help implement then-manager Jeff Banister’s determination to pitch more inside and with an edge. Though the Rangers won the AL West in 2016, the pitching performance has, statistically-speaking, been an abject failure over the last three seasons.” Grant cites the fact that those poor numbers were posted despite having Cole Hamels and Yu Darvish on the roster for much of his tenure. The failures of the Rangers’ staff caused many fans to target Brocail. One fan even started a change.org petition to fire Brocail. And 17 people thought it was worth their time to sign it. So while Brocail’s staffs didn’t fare that well in Texas, it is worth repeating that he was not the person on the mound pitching. Major league players get to the highest level for a reason and it is the coaches job to tinker, not drastically remake. When assessing his work as Rangers’ pitching coach, one has to consider the ballpark in which his club played half of their games. Globe Life Park is among one of the better hitters parks in baseball. ESPN’s Park Factor ratings say it is by far the best offensive park in 2018. Also, while Darvish and Hamels were in Texas during this period, it isn’t as though the rest of the pitching staff was filled by Cy Young clones. A look at those rosters show that those Rangers pitchers weren’t oozing with talent.And it is not as though Brocail’s time in Texas was without any successes. Andrew Cashner, who he will reunite with, had one of the finest seasons of his career while working with Brocail in 2017. There were some concerns about his peripheral stats, but he pitched to an ERA of 3.40 in a very hitter-friendly ballpark. Let’s hope Cashner rediscovers what worked for him after a disappointing 2018.Rich Dubroff at BaltimoreBaseball.com reported that a keen observer of the Orioles said that “Dylan Bundy will have a breakout year under Brocail.” I wish Dubroff would have elaborated, but it is clear that this “observer” has a positive view on what the new pitching coach can do. Luckily, the Orioles aren’t in a position where they are expecting Doug Brocail’s presence to put them over the hump and into the playoffs. He will be expected to help a young pitching staff grow and improve. Hopefully the new front office builds a talent pipeline that will give him legitimate major league pitchers to make his job easier in a few years. Led this time by Kyle Freeland and German M谩rquez, this rotation looks to be deadly again in 2019"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Scaling the RocksPebble ReportRockpileRockies Game ThreadsRockies Fan ExperienceRockies State of the PositionThe Rockies starting rotation is back, but in a slightly different orderNew,4commentsLed this time by Kyle Freeland and German M谩rquez, this rotation looks to be deadly again in 2019MSTShareTweetShareShareThe Rockies starting rotation is back, but in a slightly different orderAfter spending big money on their bullpen in 2018, it ended up being the starting rotation that was the Rockies’ biggest strength. They only used six starters throughout the season (seven counting Jeff Hoffman’s one spot start), with Kyle Freeland, German M谩rquez, Jon Gray http://www.marinersfanproshop.com/authentic-edgar-martinez-jersey , and Tyler Anderson each starting more than 30 game. Freeland and M谩rquez both had breakout seasons to lead the way, with Freeland posting the lowest ERA by a Rockies pitcher (2.85) and M谩rquez setting a club record for season strikeouts (221). They are at the top of a long list of homegrown arms and if they keep pushing the momentum they built last year, this rotation could be deadly once again.The startersJust like in 2018, four spots in the rotation are safe: Freeland, M谩rquez, Anderson, and Gray — possibly in that order. Freeland seems to have taken the “ace” torch from Gray. The lefty had a remarkable 2018 campaign that concluded with him finishing fourth in the NL Cy Young Award voting — the highest finish of a Rockies pitcher since Ubaldo Jim茅nez also finished fourth in 2010. After a storied season, what is Freeland working on going into 2019? “No major goals, I just want to try to keep being as consistent as possible and repeat my delivery and my pitch mix and be on the same page with our catchers,” he said. Freeland, like Rockies fans, hopes that consistency turns into another great year for the Denver kid (hey, at least I waited until the end to mention it).M谩rquez was the probably the biggest surprise of 2018. He performed okay for the first part of the season, but caught fire in the second half. On top of his phenomenal pitching stats, M谩rquez also took home the NL Silver Slugger for a pitcher. Before last season, M谩rquez was tabbed as a dark horse for the 2018 Cy Young. Now, he’s being tabbed once again as a sleeper for the 2019 award. Between him and Freeland, could this be the year that one of these Rockies pitchers takes home the hardware?Anderson gets lost in the shuffle sometimes. He quietly works his way through games and often finishes with high marks. In 2018, he posted a 4.55 ERA over 176 innings, which ranked him third amongst Rockies pitchers with a 3.0 rWAR. He pitched really well through the first half, but the wheels fell off in August and September after one bad outing in St. Louis on August 26th. It wasn’t disastrous enough to derail his season, but Anderson will have to be much more consistent over the entire 2019 season if the rotation is to continue its dominance.Gray had the most up and down year of his career in 2018 that included a quick reset in Albuquerque in July. Upon his return, he posted a 2.59 ERA with the team winning his first seven games back in the majors. However Alex Colome Jersey , he fell back to earth in late August and ended up off the NLDS roster due to his lack of consistency. Last year, Gray said his goal was to pitch 200 innings. He ended up pitching 172 1鈦?. This year’s goal is the same.“Definitely want to throw 200 innings this year,” he reiterated. “I want to stay healthy all year long, be there for my team, and that’s kinda the biggest part really. I missed out on a lot last year and I just wanna be healthy and, you know, pitch a lot of innings for ‘em this year.” Let’s hope he’s able to complete those goals this year. “The Battle for Fifth” — 2019 EditionOnce again, there is a three-way battle for the fifth starter spot between Chad Bettis, Antonio Senzatela, and Jeff Hoffman. Bettis and Senzatela both seem to be the front-runners with Hoffman looking to play spoiler.Bettis and Senzatela both split time between the rotation and the bullpen last year, whereas Hoffman has been a starter in the minors and a reliever in the majors. Bettis ended up winning the job in 2018, which relegated Senzatela to the bullpen to start the season until he was sent to Albuquerque on May 3 to be stretched out. However, as the season wore on, injuries took their toll on both pitchers and they ended up alternating as starters and relievers. At the end of the season, it was Senzatela pitching in the rotation and Bettis coming out of the bullpen.It looks to be another back and forth contest this year with no clear front-runner. Bettis is the veteran, but Senzatela finished strong down the stretch. Hoffman has been working hard on his pitches and looks good so far, but seems to be blocked again by the other two. The competition will most likely come down to the wire, but don’t be surprised if Bettis and Senzatela (and maybe even Hoffman) both get their fair share of starts in 2019.On the farmThe Rockies have a lot of talented arms coming up. The headliners include top prospect Peter Lambert (no. 2 PuRP) and Ryan Castellani (no. 10 PuRP), who is fresh off an Arizona Fall League appearance. Lambert split time between Hartford and Albuquerque last season. While in Hartford, he posted a 2.23 ERA in 15 games before being promoted. In Albuquerque, he was rocked a little more — posting a 5.04 ERA in 11 games and half as many innings pitched.Castellani repeated Double-A this year and struggled — posting a 5.49 ERA (his highest to date) and 1.526 WHIP. He was selected to the Arizona Fall League, where he had a 5.13 ERA over seven starts. Regardless, they are turning heads in the clubhouse.“I mean we have a lot of talent and that goes all the way down http://www.marinersfanproshop.com/authentic-edgar-martinez-jersey , through every level, but I’ve seen guys like Castellani and Pete [Lambert] throw and they’re really good, especially for their age,” Jon Gray said. “I mean, I can’t even imagine. I remember when I was like 21-years-old trying to throw and they’re just way ahead and it’s really cool to see. I know they’re knocking on the door.”Kyle Freeland also had glowing things to say about his former teammates. “I’ve been in the minor leagues with both of them,” he recalled. “I was with Peter when he was first drafted, so I know them pretty well, you know, over the years and they’re two guys that have great mentalities and are looking to win and that’s what we need at the lower levels coming up, especially in the coming years and even this year. We need guys that are MLB ready, that are looking to come up, perform, and help this team win and win in the playoffs.”When asked if he had any advice for these young guys, Gray said, “Just to come up and use their strengths.What I don’t want to see is them try to be someone else. I just want them to come up here because they’re good and they know why they’re good and use it.” If catastrophe strikesLuckily for the Rockies, they have so much pitching depth in their system that they should be able to withstand losing one or two players to injury without having to seek help outside the organization. If they need to dig deep, though, Yency Almonte is a candidate. He began his career as a starter but has since been shifted to the bullpen in the majors. Jesus Tinoco is also a starter-turned-reliever who has yet to make his big league debut, but he had a strong showing in the AFL this year so he could be very close to moving up. Either of them could be stretched back into a starter role if necessary.