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.500+ record, or no. 13 overall draft pick?

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16 hours ago, 1968_bills_fan said:

What is missing from this discussion is that both the Yankees and the Red Sox are better than us,  have young players and have a better farm system (with better and more players coming up in the near future).   We play in the same damn division as them and we have to become better than one of them and competitve with the other to get into the post season.  The measuring stick is not how do we squeek into the wildcard, but how we get a winning record against those two.

We play more games against stronger teams than other teams. We play 20 games against NYY and BRS who are among the top 4 teams in the AL and (unfortunately) 4 games against the Nat's who win more than the NYY.  So we start off with a disadvantage for the wild card compared to teams in other AL division.   The road to the post season goes thu NY and Boston.

Right now, we have one and a half starting pitchers and we need 5.  Maybe we might get one 4/5 guy from our farm system and one 4/5 guy from the FA market or a trade.  We lack ~2 guys from the 1-2-3 slot.  

 

We either wait for the future draft picks and luck, or we trade our only valid trading chip.  Goodbye Manny, nice to have known you. 

 

I understand what you are saying but the Orioles are 1 game over .500 in the AL East. 12-7 against Toronto  and 7-12 against the Yankees. Even with the Rays and one game over against the Red Sox. Also .500 against Washington.Houston.Cleveland and the Yankees gave them the most trouble. A few NL Central teams also did.

 

 

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