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This Next Move Has Got to Count
If the season started today the Orioles rotation would look like this: With Albert Suarez, Chayce McDermott and Trevor Rogers as depth options and Kyle Bradish hopefully returning towards the end of the season. Now a rotation that is just an injury away from number 2 starter Dean Kremer is flatly not good enough but…
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At least one AL East team signed a corner outfielder
The Orioles joined in on the free agency frenzy on Saturday evening signing Tyler O’Neill and Gary Sanchez to deals that made industry experts say things like “huh… interesting” and “I guess that makes sense”. Both deals were for significant amounts of money and point towards these two guys playing a large role on the…
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What do the early free agent signings mean for the Orioles?
The Orioles entered this offseason knowing that their number 1 need was to supplement the rotation and for the first time in many many years the Orioles have been floated as contenders to sign the top free agent pitchers on the market. Both Burnes and Fried have been mentioned as possible targets for the O’s…
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So the Season is Over – Part 3
At the end of the season there was a report that one of the incoming free agents said that the Orioles clubhouse was James McCann’s clubhouse. That does sound like something of an indictment on some of our younger stars but James McCann is a good teammate, he’s tough as nails and he has 10…
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So the Season is Over – Part 2
This offseason has the potential to be the most exciting Orioles offseason in many many years. When it was announced that David Rubenstien was buying the Orioles it felt like a weight was taken off Orioles fan’s shoulders because under John Angelos everyone knew that the O’s were never going to spend enough to get…
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So the Season is Over – part 1
There’s not a good way to lose a playoff series but it really doesn’t get much worse than what the Orioles did this year. I was thinking about it and I decided losing 1-0 and 2-1 is actually worse than if they had gotten blown out both games and lost 10-0 and 10-1 because at…
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Here We Go Again
10 years ago the Orioles won 96 games and the AL East Division title. They beat the Tigers and their Cy Young rotation in the ALDS and then all that stood between them and the World Series was an 89 win Royals team. That Royals team ended up doing more than just standing in the…
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Siri, why does G(R)od allow suffering?
Grayson Rodriguez went on the IL with a Lat strain on August 7th. At the time it was a big let down because he was having such a good season with 13 wins in 20 starts but with almost 2 months before the playoffs it felt like a foregone conclusion that he would be back…
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I’ve got to focus, I’m shifting into Wildcard mode
Yesterday the Orioles clinched the postseason for the first time since 1996-1997. I supposed I knew that it had been that long because I remember the Buck Showalter O’s never made back to back playoffs and before that they hadn’t made the playoffs in my lifetime but even though I knew that, seeing all the…
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Should Brandon Hyde be Scapegoated for this Season?
It looks like the Orioles will not be winning the division. I am not happy about it especially because I’ve written so many times that I thought this Yankees team was not very good and I told a lot of people that they were massive frauds that would fade down the stretch and alas it…
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