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Can This Team Win A Championship The Way It's Constructed?


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Sure they can win a championship. They darn near have the best record in baseball almost 2/3rds of the way through the season. Plenty of teams have won without a dominating rotation, including KC last year. And the rotation is really our only major weakness.

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Sure they can win a championship. They darn near have the best record in baseball almost 2/3rds of the way through the season. Plenty of teams have won without a dominating rotation, including KC last year. And the rotation is really our only major weakness.

The rotation has stepped it up.

For the ninth time in 13 games, the O’s starting pitcher allowed two or fewer earned runs last night. In that 13-game run, O’s starters have pitched to an ERA of 2.88.
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