American League East · 2020
Baltimore Orioles
- Team WAR
- 8.7 6.6 bat / 2.2 pitch
- Win %
- .417 pyth .468
- Run diff
- -20 4.57 / 4.90 per g
- wRC+
- 104
- ERA
- 4.81 FIP 4.75
- Home runs
- 77
The Baltimore Orioles went 25-35 in 2020, a .417 winning percentage — 25th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 274 runs and allowed 294, a run differential of -20. The offence ranked 17th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.81 staff ERA was 20th of 30. Their 104 team wRC+ was 4% above league average — 12th of 30 in MLB. Jose Iglesias led the position players at 1.5 WAR, and Keegan Akin the rotation at a 4.56 ERA.
Where the offence comes from
Roster contribution by share of the team total.
523 team hits
Batting
20 players, ranked by dbWAR.
| Jose Iglesias | SS | 39 | 150 | 53 | 3 | 24 | 0 | .373 | .400 | .556 | .409 | 162 | 1.5 |
| Anthony Santander | RF | 37 | 165 | 40 | 11 | 32 | 0 | .261 | .315 | .575 | .365 | 131 | 0.9 |
| Ryan Mountcastle | LF | 35 | 140 | 42 | 5 | 23 | 0 | .333 | .386 | .492 | .379 | 141 | 0.8 |
| Renato Núñez | 1B | 52 | 216 | 50 | 12 | 31 | 0 | .256 | .324 | .492 | .348 | 120 | 0.7 |
| Chance Sisco | C | 35 | 121 | 21 | 4 | 10 | 0 | .214 | .364 | .378 | .339 | 114 | 0.7 |
| Pedro Severino | C | 48 | 178 | 40 | 5 | 21 | 1 | .250 | .322 | .388 | .314 | 96 | 0.6 |
| Pat Valaika | SS | 51 | 150 | 39 | 8 | 16 | 0 | .277 | .315 | .475 | .337 | 113 | 0.6 |
| DJ Stewart | RF | 31 | 112 | 17 | 7 | 15 | 0 | .193 | .355 | .455 | .356 | 125 | 0.5 |
| Hanser Alberto | 2B | 54 | 231 | 62 | 3 | 22 | 3 | .283 | .306 | .393 | .303 | 88 | 0.5 |
| Cedric Mullins | CF | 40 | 153 | 38 | 3 | 12 | 7 | .271 | .315 | .407 | .315 | 97 | 0.5 |
| Rio Ruiz | 3B | 53 | 204 | 41 | 9 | 32 | 1 | .222 | .286 | .427 | .304 | 89 | 0.3 |
| Ramón Urías | SS | 9 | 27 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .360 | .407 | .560 | .414 | 166 | 0.3 |
| Austin Hays | CF | 33 | 134 | 34 | 4 | 9 | 2 | .279 | .328 | .393 | .316 | 98 | 0.2 |
| Travis Lakins | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| Dwight Smith Jr. | LF | 20 | 72 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 1 | .222 | .306 | .365 | .291 | 80 | -0.0 |
| Dilson Herrera | 1B | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .125 | -34 | -0.1 |
| Andrew Velazquez | SS | 30 | 77 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 4 | .159 | .274 | .206 | .235 | 41 | -0.2 |
| Bryan Holaday | C | 19 | 33 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .161 | .212 | .194 | .189 | 9 | -0.3 |
| Mason Williams | LF | 6 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .222 | .138 | -25 | -0.3 |
| Chris Davis | 1B | 15 | 55 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .115 | .164 | .173 | .155 | -14 | -0.7 |
Pitching
25 pitchers, ranked by dbWAR.
| Keegan Akin | 8 | 6 | 25.2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 4.56 | 3.27 | 1.44 | 12.3 | 0.5 |
| Dean Kremer | 4 | 4 | 18.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 4.82 | 2.76 | 1.45 | 10.6 | 0.5 |
| César Valdez | 9 | 0 | 14.1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 1.26 | 2.14 | 0.70 | 7.5 | 0.4 |
| Tanner Scott | 25 | 0 | 20.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 1.31 | 3.48 | 1.06 | 10.0 | 0.3 |
| Shawn Armstrong | 14 | 0 | 15.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1.80 | 2.99 | 0.80 | 8.4 | 0.3 |
| Paul Fry | 22 | 0 | 22.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 2.45 | 3.69 | 1.41 | 11.9 | 0.3 |
| Alex Cobb | 10 | 10 | 52.1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 38 | 4.30 | 4.87 | 1.34 | 6.5 | 0.3 |
| Miguel Castro | 26 | 0 | 24.2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 38 | 4.01 | 3.92 | 1.66 | 13.9 | 0.3 |
| Tommy Milone | 9 | 9 | 39.0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 40 | 6.69 | 4.76 | 1.56 | 9.2 | 0.3 |
| Travis Lakins | 22 | 0 | 25.2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 2.81 | 4.01 | 1.48 | 8.8 | 0.2 |
| Dillon Tate | 12 | 0 | 16.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3.24 | 3.55 | 0.84 | 7.6 | 0.2 |
| Branden Kline | 3 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1.80 | 2.19 | 1.00 | 12.6 | 0.1 |
| Evan Phillips | 14 | 0 | 14.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 5.02 | 4.03 | 1.67 | 12.6 | 0.1 |
| Bryan Holaday | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 3.19 | 6.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Cole Sulser | 19 | 0 | 22.2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 5.56 | 4.91 | 1.50 | 7.5 | -0.0 |
| Jorge López | 10 | 6 | 39.0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 6.69 | 5.24 | 1.49 | 6.5 | -0.0 |
| David Hess | 3 | 0 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6.43 | 5.62 | 1.71 | 1.3 | -0.1 |
| Hunter Harvey | 10 | 0 | 8.2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4.15 | 5.85 | 1.15 | 6.2 | -0.1 |
| Cody Carroll | 3 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 54.00 | 9.19 | 7.00 | 13.5 | -0.1 |
| Bruce Zimmermann | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7.71 | 6.62 | 1.14 | 9.0 | -0.1 |
| John Means | 10 | 10 | 43.2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 42 | 4.53 | 5.60 | 0.98 | 8.7 | -0.1 |
| Mychal Givens | 22 | 0 | 22.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 3.63 | 5.48 | 1.16 | 10.1 | -0.1 |
| Thomas Eshelman | 12 | 4 | 34.2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 3.89 | 5.76 | 1.24 | 4.2 | -0.3 |
| Wade LeBlanc | 6 | 6 | 22.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 8.06 | 6.73 | 1.57 | 5.2 | -0.3 |
| Asher Wojciechowski | 10 | 7 | 37.0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 6.81 | 6.68 | 1.62 | 7.5 | -0.6 |
Record versus run differential
Baltimore Orioles are 25-35, a .417 win rate, while their -20 run differential implies .468. That is about 3 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.