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6 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Losing sucks. At least we have Tillman, Miley, Ubaldo, Kim, Smith, Castillo coming off the books. That's like $60 million right there. 

IF THEY SELL

...they can turn things around quickly for next season.  They are solid at C, 1B (yes Davis), 2B, maybe 3B/SS if they keep Machado, LF with Mancini, and maybe even bullpen despite trading a piece or two there.  Cedric Mullins and Austin Hays will be knocking on the door in the OF.

After that it comes down to Bundy/Gausman again and how to fill out the rotation.

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15 hours ago, DirtyBird said:

The Orioles aren't going to be floating around .500, tempting management to be deadline buyers. Yay!

Clearly you are not with the program here.  I suggest rephrasing your post as follows:

DD is still talking about being a buyer at the deadline, despite the O's recent performance.  Booooo!   

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6 hours ago, Tx Oriole said:

Forgive the FO for 2015? I don't even remember that much about that year. 

We were coming off a year in which we were 4 wins away from a World Series appearance. 2015 comes around and we have our GM trying to go to Toronto (I would have let his $#% too!) and we just did nothing that year to improve. So we go 81-81 after doing so well the year before. I'll never forgive Angelos and company for letting that rock. Just went with the motions and we paid for it.

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22 minutes ago, $Greatness$ said:

We were coming off a year in which we were 4 wins away from a World Series appearance. 2015 comes around and we have our GM trying to go to Toronto (I would have let his $#% too!) and we just did nothing that year to improve. So we go 81-81 after doing so well the year before. I'll never forgive Angelos and company for letting that rock. Just went with the motions and we paid for it.

Never a good sign when your prized off season acquisition is Travis Snider.  

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