(Music Pun #3. ....YES, SESAME STREET COUNTS NOW. I DON'T CARE IF IT'S LOWBROW, I'M USING IT.)
Now, for so many AL East teams to do great this year, somebody had to take the short end of the stick...but oh, gosh, why did it have to be the Orioles?
They're still a fun team! Manny Machado, Adam Jones and Dylan Bundy are still great! The rookies have promise. But...so much on this team is so blueprint-esque that everyone else is taking advantage of it, and making them look truly bad. And yes, it's not helping that a lot of the power core that made last year so fun is either injured or slumping.
The solution is probably gonna be to pawn some people away by August, and while people are already shouting about Machado and where he could go, there's also not a great deal of other people that are worth looking at. Dylan Bundy's having another great season, but is he eligible for trades? Same question goes to somebody like Trey Mancini. Is it possible for this team to be dissected, or is it just going to have to be the contract-applicable pieces that are working.
Still, you never know- they could go on a tear this month. But not a ton is working, and not a ton is fun to watch, so we may have to run with this for a bit.
Coming Tonight: One of the best pitchers in baseball.
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