I just dont understand why Buck continues to stay with Reynolds in the line-up. The strikeouts are just killers. And he's only average at best defensively at 1st. He's been given more than a fair chance to turn it around. It just isnt going to happen for him. Before the season is lost for good, I would sit him for an extended period, at least a week, and go with a diiferent line-up. Perhaps platoon Davis and Betemit there. Its time to do something.

Listen I get it, Reynolds is making $7 m and we don't actually have anybody on the bench who needs to be out there ahead of him, but seriously bat him 8th, don't bat him in a spot with actual responsibility he left 6 ROb last night.

He would only be owed around 2 million for the rest of the season. Teams have lost a lot more than 2 million.

hey I have a suggestion and I have heard this suggestion somewhere else. Why don`t we pull a kevin gregg on Mark reyonlds sit him down Bench him and bring up Joe mahoney? Than when mark`s contract is up we get rid of his sorry behind w/o playing him for the rest of the season we intentially p off mark maybe that will get him thinking. He just made excuses last night after the game.

how many other guys do the O's have on the bench or in triple a that have 40 homerun potential. Despite the low average and strikeouts I don't believe it's wise to give up on that type of power. Reynolds' future is as a dh. It's up to him to accept that and make the mental adjustment to not playing the field. I've read somewhere that he doesn't really like the idea of dhing. Maybe that was the reason for bringing in Jim Thome. Thome extended his career and probably punched his ticket to the hall of fame by making the transition to dh. He could be a good mentor for Reynolds.
Reynolds decrease in power numbers is concerning and someone should be asking if it's injury related or if he stopped juicing like Garrett Atkins did. He still also may be adjusting to the new pitchers in a new league. It should ahve been long enough to eliminate that factors.

I have a suggestion, How about we trade him to the MFY for cash considerations and let him renew his hitting ability against us.

You know that by benching him and trying to replace him with someone from the minors that we would have to remove a player from the 25?

By doing as you suggest the orioles would have a three player bench. Teagarden, Chavez/Ford and Flaherty

after I made that suggestion I thought about that and I said to myself that we needed to remove a player from the 25 man roster and I also said to myself that it would leave us a three man bench. so yeah I know what I said was a mistake b/c who would we give up to do this move? But I also agree with you about trading mark to another team.

Whenever he bats I chant Mr. Strikeout since that's what he's good at doing rather than hitting it out of the park.

A first baseman batting 8th? Haven't heard of that before. Should I add awful fielding first baseman batting 8th? His WAR is -1.7 this year. It shouldn't be hard for someone to beat that. There are only 5 players with worse WAR in the league.

3rd strikeout of the night. Nice one Reynolds!

At least he's consistent at one thing.

3 strike outs and a walk. I would say that was an average mark reynolds game.

Would you prefer 3 GDP's and a single? :)

It seems that every at-bat/game (at least lately) where Reynolds' BA is about to drop below .200, he goes out and gets a couple of hits to raise it back up by like 4-6 points. Then he strikes out incessantly, and the whole process repeats itself.

Right now, he couldn't even hit a beachball with a 2x4

Yes I would. He didn't hit the ball once. I could have done as well as he did tonight.

What I don't get is how he's walked 42 times don't the pitchers know if they throw strikes he will either take the pitch or swing and miss there's a better chance of him striking out than getting a hit.

Good point - he has done a better job at getting walked...but who really should get the credit for that? Maybe his 'eye' hasn't truly improved.

I hope Mark turns it around and fast, because his September numbers at the plate are traditionally just as bad as his April numbers.

Saying that Reynolds makes me wanna jet-puke a steamy vile stream of puke onto his cleats at 1B from miles away would be an understatement. It may not be rational, but thats how I feel.

According to a previous topic from a few days back, although he isn't living up to it this year, Reynolds still has potential. We are all waiting for this potential, just like the potential from Ryan Minor and Ben McDonald and Daniel Cabrera and Sidney Pondscum and......

"Yes I would."

Great, another guy that loves it when an Oriole grounds into a double play but hates it when they strike out. I used to be one of those, until I realize that 2 outs were more than 1 out and when your team is up to bat, 1 out is better than 2. Darn math.

"According to a previous topic from a few days back, although he isn't living up to it this year, Reynolds still has potential."

Potential: [puh-ten-shuhl] adjective
possible, as opposed to actual: the potential uses of nuclear energy.

Reynolds actually hit 44 homeruns in 2009. Not potentially, actually.

Actually: [ak-choo-uh-lee] adverb
as an actual or existing fact; really.

English is a tough language, perhaps we should start speaking hanguk-mal (Korean) on here, or even zhong wen (Chinese). Just a thought.