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3 hours ago, oriole said:

The Orioles will not be adding much to payroll outside of some arbitration cases. This was the year and they didn’t do it. That signals that it will never happen until the team is sold. Elias was lied to.

I have said this , sorry to say, for some years now, and it appears more likely as each year goes slowly by.  

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Moose Milligan
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83-86. Balanced schedule and less games against the AL East should wipe out any regression in performances from certain players.  

DirtyBird
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Sports Guy was right, the O's just won the wrong amount of games

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These are very narrow ranges.  I went with 83-86, because I believe that is the most likely  outcome.  However, the odds strongly favor the win total not falling in that range.

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6 minutes ago, rudyrooster said:

I'm concerned about the possibility of regression this season.   The starting pitching does not impress me (though it didn't impress me last season).  I hope I'm wrong, but I predict 76 wins.

I’m more worried about the bullpen regressing than the starters.  

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5 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I expect both to, with the bullpen regressing harder and faster.

Well, it’s not like the starters were great last year — 4.35 ERA, 11th/15 in the AL.   I have some optimism they can match or exceed that.  But we’ll see.

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2 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

2/3 of the board essentially believes this team will be in playoff contention late in the year. That’s extremely optimistic as for a decent sampling of people.

It’s spring.  Time to be hopeful.  Especially since we haven’t had this much reason to be hopeful in at least 5 years.  

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5 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

2/3 of the board essentially believes this team will be in playoff contention late in the year. That’s extremely optimistic as for a decent sampling of people.

 

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

It’s spring.  Time to be hopeful.  Especially since we haven’t had this much reason to be hopeful in at least 5 years.  

Wonder what the 2018 poll looked like?

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23 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Read it and weep.  40% of posters thought we’d win at least 87 games.  I was at 81-83 which put me less optimistic than 70% of posters.  


 

I checked and I predicted 78-80 wins.  I knew the O's regulars were getting old w/ few replacements on the farm.  I expected a gradual decline, not the debacle that happened. 

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I expect just above .500, like 83-86 wins… unless we get reinforcements. If the team trades early enough for a significant talent (notice I don’t say “talents”, clearly singular), then 87 to 92 wins, but somehow I feel that: (i) our collective expectations are perhaps too high on a number of unproven youngsters with little to no MLB experience; (ii) injuries could easily kill this team, something the club was fortunately light on last year; or (iii) if anything goes amiss on those first two points, I don’t see ownership ponying up whatever it costs to overcome that. We’ll just… bring up Lewin Diaz, or trade Stowers away to get the 2023 edition of Michael Morse, or whoever. 

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