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Interesting preview. Clearly no one has any idea what to do with the AL East this season.

As Jeff Sullivan noted last October, the Orioles have been among the best at ?avoiding the awful? during the Duquette era, amassing the sixth-lowest sum of negative WAR over that three-season span. (The Rays had the lowest.) Last year, Baltimore was even better than usual at steering clear of sub-replacement production

That?s why it?s difficult to come up with a list of moves the O?s should have made: Even their weakest links ? Alejandro De Aza, Snider, Bud Norris, Gonzalez ? are competent enough that making major improvements at those positions isn?t easy.

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