Maximizing Playoff Odds - A Baltimore Orioles Newsletter

Maximizing Playoff Odds - A Baltimore Orioles Newsletter

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Maximizing Playoff Odds - A Baltimore Orioles Newsletter
Maximizing Playoff Odds - A Baltimore Orioles Newsletter
All the Orioles' work to build a team worth adding Adley Rutschman to has created one. Now, they just need to call him up.

All the Orioles' work to build a team worth adding Adley Rutschman to has created one. Now, they just need to call him up.

If a competitive Orioles team was a prerequisite for finally handing Adley Rutschman his debut, at least that box has been checked with this current edition

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All the Orioles' work to build a team worth adding Adley Rutschman to has created one. Now, they just need to call him up.
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This space’s official calendar does not recognize the 2018 season as part of the actual Orioles rebuild, though a sweep in Detroit this weekend harked back to an early moment of that nightmare summer.

That April, the 5-11 Orioles went to Detroit after being swept in Boston with the idea that the Tigers would be the ideal opponent to get a roster bolstered that spring for one last run back on track. They were swept then, too, rather decisively, and so continued a season that made it clear plenty was about to change.

It did in quite a significant way that summer and continued at a higher degree over the ensuing three seasons, even if the progress is best characterized from a top-down view as a duck meandering across the water with the constant motion of its feet below the surface not always evident.

Only the ends, which are still a long way off, will justify that approach. But over four years later, another sweep disappointing sweep in Detroit feels like a point in time when this big old boat is finally charting its new course.

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