it's even worse when you see how much success David Hernandez is having in Az.

We should call it the MacPhail line.

4 Million for Atkins and then Hernandez for Reynolds.

Didn't like the moves then, don't like them now.

Josh Bell could have given us the same production if not better, and we'd still have Hernandez.

all this picking on reynolds is premature. he's had a decent may, if he trends upward some more he'll be near .250 with power and walks.

in may he's batting .225 with a .365 OBP. among AL third-basemen, only kevin youkilis is OPSing higher.

i'm not saying he's an all-star, but he's looking league-average at the moment, and if he improves some more he will be a very solid contributor.

Mark Reynold's batting average comes as a surprise to absolutely no one. But, as Kevin points out, he is doing what he is supposed to be doing and what he was brought here to do - hitting home runs and batting in runs pretty much as good or better than most of the oither Orioles.

Bottom line - would we be better off with Ty Wiggintgon or Josh Bell playing third base instead of him? No, of course not. Picking on Reynolds is absurd.

Maybe if they called it the Reynold line the manager would pay more attention to it when he is batting with one on and nobody out in the ninth down 1...at some point they have to get tired of losing to teams that play "baseball."

Any player that has MAINTAINED a batting average of .198 since the start of the 2010 season is worthy of criticism.

Mark Reynolds may be on pace to get 20 homers, but he will most likely make 20+ errors. We've definitely had better 3rd basemen [Mora, Tejada, Ripken].

So why would Bell have been worse? Fox? Do you really see Reynolds batting over .225 this year? Yeah he's knocked in a few rbi's, but how many has he left stranded? Only the fact that Markakis, Scott and Lee are flopping this year makes takes him out of the spot light (compared to Atkins previously). Oh well.....

It's absurd to NOT call out a guy for hitting below.200.

Why do people like this guy?

Maybe all you pro-Reynolds people should ask yourselves this...

Would you rather have a 1.85 ERA coming out of the pen (Hernandez as a D-Back this year), or would you rather a sub .200 hitting 3rd baseman.

I'd take Andino at 3rd and batting 9th with Hernandez in the pen all day over what we have.

Reynolds isn't the problem the O's aren't winning! Pitching stinks a majority of the time and except for Wieters ans Vlad no one else hits w/RISP. Reynolds will be just fine and defensively at 3rd he's way better than wiggy or bell. Next subject!

Most new what the Orioles were getting in Reynolds. So why all the talking about what he is doing now. What about the rest of the team. 4 guys hitting over .260 this is a sorry team.

As a Dbacks fan I feel your pain Oriole's fans. Reynolds is what he is, don't count on him "trending up" as someone else stated might happen. Oh and thanks for Hernandez!

Still wonder how Reynolds would hit if he had batters hitting AFTER him who were some kind of threat. Why even pitch to Reynolds and his power with the O's lineup?

Bottom line - would we be better off with Ty Wiggintgon or Josh Bell playing third base instead of him? No, of course not. Picking on Reynolds is absurd.

Posted by: Fang
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The Orioles would be better off with Ty Wiggintgon without a doubt. Are you related to Reynolds?

I understand that people have been using BA to evaluate players for a very long time, but in the case of Mark Reynolds it just isn't very useful. The more we talk about it, the more we are obscuring the issue. I wish we could all just stop talking about his BA (and Ks, for that matter) and instead focus on how is OBP is down and his SLG is waaay down.

Just last year, when he batted .198 (!!), his OBP (.320) was about average for the league and his SLG (.433) was quite a bit above average. If all you'd look at was his BA you would say he had a pretty awful year, but looking at the rest of the numbers shows he had a good, but not great, year.

There really is no comparison to Mendoza. The year Mendoza hit .198, his OBP was .216 and his SLG was .249.

Yeah, these are the same people who said to go get Adam Dunn, and LaRoche, freakin' genius'.

Just about everyone one out there like this Reynolds trade when it happend, just go to the arhives and look it up.

This is the typical fairweather fan in B'more. I'm surprised you all don't break a leg or something jumping on and off the band wagon all the time.

At the beginning of the season, if you were told the O's would be at .500 a week ago and still within 6 games of first at this time, you would have taken that and celebrated. Now that we are exactly at this point everyone is screaming bloody murder!!!!

Seems to me that everyone in town anoited Buck the savior of Baltimore baseball and now you all want to tell him how he should manage the club. Rediculous!!!

Will you ever be happy? From what I saw on paper at the beginning of the year, this is exactly where I expected the O's to be.

The biggest dissapointment to me is the starting pitching. I expected more improvement then has been produced.

It's real easy to second guess a trade after the fact, but you look at major league baseball at large and almost every team is having similar problems to the O's except for a few at the top.

Relief pitching in the bigs is a joke. These guys are getting big buck to fail at almost an 80% clip.

Until you get a salary cap in baseball this is what you get.

Bottom line - would we be better off with Ty Wiggintgon or Josh Bell playing third base instead of him? No, of course not. Picking on Reynolds is absurd.

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are you insane or related to Reynolds? Ty Wiggintgon was much better.

You are insulting Mr. Mendoza. Mario Mendoza NEVER struck out at Reynolds strike out rate -- NOT even close.