The Orioles have gone 3-3 over the last week. You might have been hoping for more since they were playing two last place teams in this time, and there was the extra factor of the Red Sox firing their manager mid-series. Yet it was the Orioles who got embarrassed in the game before Boston chucked its skipper, not the Red Sox, and they continued an early trend of being unable to hit much when lefty starting pitchers are involved.
This week, I’m thinking about how this team compares to last year’s disappointing
dudes through the same number of games. Through 28 games, the team has two more wins than last year, a sizable improvement over such a small percentage of the season. It’s the difference between being on pace for 64 wins and being on pace for 75 wins. Tougher times are coming, though, as 10 of the next 16 games will have the Orioles squaring off against division leaders, starting with a four-game set against the Yankees that begins on Friday.
I’m also thinking about how even by late May, you don’t always know how good a team can be. Using the example of the 2014 Orioles, who were one game below .500 on May 30 and went on to great things, I look at what was going wrong with that team over the first two months and what had to happen for them to fix it. If these Orioles can manage to at least tread water until then rather than collapse outright as last year’s team did, perhaps they can put it together.
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