Is This The Real Orioles, Or Just A Slump?

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RPM

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will be interesting to see what the answer to this question is...
 
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in between....
 

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Injuries are hurting the Orioles. They are a .500 ball club. Sosa without steroids is dead weight.
 
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their "suspect" pitching is catching up to them. It wasn't a strong point heading into the season, and now hitters are getting to them. Not to say their staff is terrible, it's just that it's average at best. They pitched over their heads a bit so far. Bedard needs to get back. He'll help a lot. The pen is shackey. The offense never really did it for me, but can produce. Mora is big in that equation. Other than that, like Sherman said "in between".
 
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It all happened when Mora got banged up. He really makes that offense click.
 

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The Orioles are finished for the year!
 
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I think there not quite ready for prime time...They will get hot again but they are in a strong division and will fade in Sept. IMO.
 

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will getting all those people back from injuries help?

i think it will. but i dont know if it will be enough.


chuck,

i think its more of not having a corked bat than steriods for sammy...
 

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Sosa has done nothing, he's not the same player, it will be interesting to see what kind of money he will command next year....the team has really been killed by injuries,and they don't have the pitching depth to overcome them...even when they were playing great ball, it was mainly the top three batters, Roberts, Mora, and Tejada , night in and night out who were literally carrying them....
 

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With a largely older veteran line-up and un-proven pitchers wasn't it expected that injuries would hit and hit them hard?

Nationals have over-come almost as many injuries to be sitting in first. Including two starting pitchers and their best player for most of season.(Vidro).
Answer: These are the real Orioles.
 

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bulldog, its still better than we've seen in years, the team is atleast competitive, it would have been nice to have gotten Vladdy when they had the chance...he will be a free agent this upcoming season and I am sure NY will be calling.
 
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the one glaring hole is their pitching, it now shows.

*their offense slumping* is what is making it look so bad.
 

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Its just an impossible situation in that division with a medium market(at best) team competing with two largest payrolls in sports. O's have to be almost perfectly run and have two other rich orgs screw up in same year to win.
 

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Losing Bedard, who will be an ace was really the biggest injury...they haven't been the same since he went down.
 

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