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Couldn't resist.  Akin is on the 15 day IL with lower back discomfort and Vespi is up.  "There Captain Smith, don't you think the Titantic's deck chairs look better now?"

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Between Akin, Perez, and Voth it’s amazing to consider the record that we have considering the negative value that each of their terribleness has given/taken away from the team. 

If we just had 3 “averageish” relievers instead of them, how much better off would we be?

I would throw in Givens to that mix but he wasn’t here long enough to really hurt us too much.

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6 minutes ago, higgybaby said:

Anyone else think he got potholed?

Possibly, all it takes explanation from an Orioles Dr.  Of the tens of thousands that have gone on the DL now IL-to the best of my knowledge MLB has never presented a challenge.

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55 minutes ago, Bemorewins said:

Between Akin, Perez, and Voth it’s amazing to consider the record that we have considering the negative value that each of their terribleness has given/taken away from the team. 

If we just had 3 “averageish” relievers instead of them, how much better off would we be?

I would throw in Givens to that mix but he wasn’t here long enough to really hurt us too much.

Yes .. but we have had the totally unexpected gifts of Cano, Coulombe … just goes to show you .. no matter how much evaluators think they know, the games are played by human beings and will always surprise us both negatively and positively.  Baseball is life. 

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1 hour ago, slakattack said:

...and where would that ridiculous assumption come from?

I could be misunderstanding your post, but it sounded like you’re comparing the O’s to a sinking ship. 

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23 minutes ago, oriole said:

I could be misunderstanding your post, but it sounded like you’re comparing the O’s to a sinking ship. 

Probably he was just talking about our middle relief corps.

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