{"id":663297,"date":"2026-04-04T19:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663297\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:31:51","slug":"orioles-fans-are-worried-about-the-offense-after-early-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663297\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles fans are worried about the offense after early action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Orioles fans and fans across the country. Sign up here<\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n

Seven games into the 2026 season, the Orioles sit below .500 at 3-4. It is not what anyone in Birdland was hoping to see. The O\u2019s needed to blast out of the gate to chase away any lingering worries about the things that plagued the team last year, and instead they\u2019ve managed to start up the season feeling like they\u2019ve picked up a lot of last year\u2019s baggage and carried it into this year with them.<\/p>\n

In our survey this week, I polled Orioles fans asking what is the biggest concern area with the team right now out of the following areas: Starting pitching, relief pitching, bullpen, and defense. Here\u2019s how the results came back:<\/p>\n

I have to say that I\u2019m surprised that defense is down at the bottom, tied for last with starting pitching at 13%. I\u2019m as confident as I can be about anything with the Orioles that the group of hitters who are here are going to be able to figure it out and at least be decent. The defense, on the other hand, is already trending in a bad direction and there\u2019s no sign of improvement on the horizon as long as the personnel remain largely the same.<\/p>\n

Those worried about the offense certainly got some validation with Friday\u2019s loss to the Pirates, what with the Orioles going 1-9 with runners in scoring position. That\u2019s one that feels like it\u2019s carrying over from last year. If I started the survey now, maybe more people would be worried about the starting pitching. This survey was posted before Zach Eflin\u2019s injury and before Kyle Bradish turned in a clunker. There\u2019s a lot more chaos potential for the pitching with Eflin\u2019s likely season-ending injury and with Bradish\u2019s performance more of a question.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re feeling like the actual answer is, \u201cEverything,\u201d I get it. The only reason I didn\u2019t list that as an answer is that I knew it would be a runaway winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,72999,2538,5,4,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-663297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimore-orioles-discussion","11":"tag-baltimoreorioles","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116348109855858713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}