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A Begrudging Recap of the Orioles Season Ending Sweep
The Orioles were swept out of the playoffs by the Texas Rangers and I haven’t been able to make myself write about it in 2 weeks so I am going to do a quick write up before turning this into an NBA blog for a few months. I went to the Orioles final game of…
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Do or Die Moments in the Orioles Unsweepable Streak
On Sunday May 15th 2022 the Detroit Tigers completed a 3 game sweep of the Baltimore Orioles. At the time this seemed like an unremarkable result, the Orioles were 14-21 and were coming off a season where they lost 110 games where they had been swept 19 times. What people did not know on May…
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Do you miss Félix Bautista? I miss Félix Bautista.
The Orioles have played 22 games in 23 days in September and are currently in a stretch of playing 17 days in a row. The entire team is surely feeling the effects of this grueling marathon of games to end the season but the group that needs a day off more than any other is…
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Who Gets the Ball?
With less than a month left in the regular season the Orioles are 3.5 games up on the Rays with a much easier schedule down the stretch. Despite the fact that the Orioles are putting the finishing touches on their best season of the 2000’s there is doubt about their ability to go on a…
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Every Month has a Different Star
The Orioles have the best record in the American League and people and nobody outside of Orioles fans could have predicted it. The Orioles surprise rise to the top of the standings has left experts struggling to explain how they are doing this. The Orioles don’t have an elite rotation or even a single Ace…
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The October Orioles
At the end of this month MLB rosters will expand for the last month of the season. The Orioles have a bunch of players on the IL about to return as well as a few top prospects that are banging on the door of being called up so it will be interesting to see who…
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Some Trades that Didn’t Happen
This trade deadline we saw a few big name starting pitchers move teams such as Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer but we also saw several teams who were “supposed” to trade their star pitchers decide to hold onto their players for a variety of different reasons. I wanted to run through the biggest trades that…
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Jumpin Jack Flash
With 10 minutes to spare before the trade deadline the Orioles traded for Jack Flaherty from the St. Louis Cardinals. It was an interesting move because while it was not surprising that Flaherty was traded it was a little surprising that he was traded to the Orioles since he had been linked to the Dodgers…
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The Angels are buyers I guess
This is a non Orioles topic but I can’t stop thinking about what the Angels did this week when they announced that they would not be trading Shohei Ohtani and then followed that announcement up by trading for Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez. As I took in the immediate reactions of fans and media to…
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Could Félix Bautista Win the Cy Young?
On Thursday the Orioles were playing their first game in a series of 4 against the Tampa Bay Rays. After 8 and half innings Félix Bautista entered a tie game in the bottom of the 9th inning. This was somewhat unusual for Félix who, as the closer, is typically only called in to lock down…
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