Glenn and Griffin are bringing back our tradition we started last year for this 2025 baseball season Mondays on GCR with ‘Three Up and Three Down’ where we rank the best and worst Orioles performers of the week, much like how we do with Pats on the Ass and Slaps to the Helmet during football season after Ravens games. The guys will each name three players, three trending up, three trending down, based on how they did for that week specifically.
Orioles end the penultimate week of the first half of the season with a sweep of the Braves and go 4-2 to bring themselves to nine games under .500, we’ll see if they can keep it going before the All-Star Break but in the meantime here’s how we saw the past six games:
Glenn’s Three Up:
3. OF Ramón Laureano
It was a weird week for the bats where it seemed like everyone had a big game but no one had a great week. Laureano OPS-ed .773 with three doubles in the only game they won in Texas, so he speaks for the group.
2. RP Andrew Kittredge
4.2 perfect innings over four appearances. I truly thought about making him #1.
1. SP Trevor Rogers
That’s Trevor Roger(Clemen)s actually.
Griffin’s Three Up:
3. RP Yennier Canó
Heck of a return to the club this week, clearly they needed it. Collected a save and a hold across three scoreless outings, only two baserunners and the one hit allowed was off a bunt.
2. RP Andrew Kittredge
Story this week, at least in Atlanta, was the bullpen and Kittredge really bore down. Four scoreless outings including five huge outs in the win Friday to set the tone vs Atlanta.
1. SP Trevor Rogers
I love living in the moment and I’m ready to call him ‘Ace.’ Should’ve had two wins, responsible for two wins nonetheless, and some huge innings yesterday when the bullpen needed it.
Glenn’s Three Down:
3. C Gary Sánchez
He was 3/19 and when you say he’s a catcher it’s more like “catcher.” Still, it’s not great that he got hurt.
2. SP Dean Kremer
He’s still probably their most valuable trade asset but if it was something they were considering it isn’t great that he gave up nine baserunners (and five earned) over 4.1 innings.
1. SP Tomoyuki Sugano
This is bad, you guys. Like, very bad.
Griffin’s Three Down:
3. 3B Ramón Urías
Pitching felt like the story this week, which is weird when you look and see the team scored 9+ runs twice, so I struggled with picking the one hitter to put on this list. It ends up being Rámon, he only had three hits, OPS’d .423 and recency bias, he left five runners on base across two big at-bats last week.
2. SP Tomoyuki Sugano
I don’t know what happened to him, but finally cracks my down list again after a week where the O’s only lost two games, and he wasn’t even matched up against Jacob DeGrom.
1. SP Dean Kremer
What a mess Saturday was, every time the offense scored him some runs he’d turn around and blow it. I love Dean but that was the worst performance of the week.
Here’s a look at the season-long standings. Scoring is simple: 3 points awarded to the top player in ‘Three Up’ each week (then 2 points and 1 point), -3 points for the top player in ‘Three Down’ each week (then -2 points and -1 point):
