Baltimore Sun/Schmuck: Orioles running Trembley out of a job?

Throughout his minor and major league coaching career, Dave Trembley has been known as a stickler for the little things. He wants the game played right, and he knows his future as Orioles manager depends on this year’s team taking a significant developmental step forward over the next three months.

So it has to be frustrating for him to watch his club reduced to one of the worst base-running teams in baseball at this critical juncture in the organization’s rebuilding process.

He took the job intent on putting the “fun” back in fundamentals, and now a long series of fundamental lapses is threatening to be his undoing.

“The decisions that have been made have not been good decisions,” Trembley said Tuesday. “When you make bad decisions, they stand out a whole lot more than when you do well.”

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The strange irony of this particular situation is that this is a developing team that is assimilating a number of young players, but many of the most glaring mental mistakes have come out of the veteran nucleus of the club. Wigginton and Huff are just the most recent examples, but you can throw Brian Roberts and Melvin Mora into the mix, too. In a weird sort of way, the veteran blunders are a positive, because they indicate that the problem doesn’t stem from some flaw in the player-development pipeline.