Guess the ORIOLES' final record 2019

Orioles have won 4 of their last 7, unbelievers

they've also won 26 of their last 87

sorry but this team is good now, i love them

Chris Davis for MVP

could be a real battle here -- o's are only one game behind the tigers in the win column, and detroit seems fully capable of losing all the games in hand

Don't look now but the Orioles have fallen ahead of the Tigers by percentage points in the race for the 2020 #1 draft pick

6-7 so far in July!

Oh I’m looking, right now!

Above .500 (8-7) since 7/3.

I believe in the Woj

baseball america has been ranking farm systems since 1984; their latest update has the orioles at #8 -- the highest they've ever been

plus they'll get another high pick next year and they finally are signing international players

so eager to hear about this i'm considering paying for baseball america, which i guess is the point of publicizing these rankings

yr man adley rutschman arrives in aberdeen tomorrow if you feel like driving up there

this team cannot be stopped

are you saying they're going to do "BETTER than 62-102"?

. . . from screwing itself out of the top 2020 draft pick

and of course there are still three years left on perhaps the worst contract of all time

Break up the Orioles!

and of course there are still three years left on perhaps the worst contract of all time

the 2016-23 $31M AAV miguel cabrera extension could potentially be very bad as well

the largest contract ever, at the time (by AAV)

true, but miggy is at least a hall of famer; you could hope he'd stay healthy and maybe hit a bunch of doubles instead of homers, and you could also reward him for years of valiant service. maybe not smart, but at least understandable

davis, at that time, was heading into his age-30 season with a career .255/.330/.506 line and 14.7 bWAR. he'd just led the majors in strikeouts and was a year removed from a .196/.300/.404, 0.7 bWAR season. there was never a chance

Get out your brooms, the Mighty Baltimore Ducks are going for the 4-game (!) sweep of Los California Angels of Anaheim in the suburb of Los Angeles today.

Also, they quietly set an MLB record over their last streak:

In Saturday’s 8-7 victory over the Los Angeles Angels, home runs from Pedro Severino and Jonathan Villar made the Orioles the first team in major league history with multiple home runs in 10 consecutive games.

#juicedballz

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Orioles won their 47th game tonight, matching last year's total with 17 still to play, largely against weak opposition. Fangraphs projects them to end up with 54-55 wins. We were too pessimistic!

take that, naysayers

They have settled into a nice groove where every time they win they look like a good team and every time they lose it's more comical and ridiculous than depressing (this week: giving up a walk-off grand slam in the 12th to the worst team in baseball, losing 5-3 after giving up two runs on a dropped third strike the pitcher failed to cover)

rarely before has losing 108 games felt like such a step forward

O's finish better than anyone on this thread dared predict, Pythag record of 60-102, some decent talent found among the players abandoned by other teams (John Means, Hanser Alberto, Anthony Santander, etc.), a lot of fun memories (strangely many of them involving Stevie Wilkerson.) I enjoyed this!

The Orioles had the 2nd-worst record in MLB in 2019. But they led the league in heartfelt, handwritten ‘thank you‘ notes. In a twist on fan appreciation, some season-ticket holders are getting notes from players saying “thanks & hang in there.” The story: https://t.co/dZ8OjbkcsV

— Dan Connolly (@danconnolly2016) October 3, 2019