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Originally Posted by flamingred89
I'm really surprised at how the Orioles are just rolling over for the Yanks. I thought they would try to play spoiler a little bit. Oh well.
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Not really. It was entirely predictable over a week ago that the Yankees were only going to lose a game or two against the O’s and White Sox combined. You have a 100 game loser with some of their regulars out of the lineup in the White Sox and an O’s team whose record flatters them as they firesold players at the trade deadline and were trash against the Jays earlier this month.
The Jays needed to play over .500 ball the last couple weeks against mostly sub .500 teams. Being 20+ games over .500 themselves that should not have been hard at all. But alas the Jays $500 MM man has hit below .200 during that time and has an OPS around .500. Their catcher who has hit over .300 most of the year is hitting under .100, the Addison Barger Cinderella story has turned into a pumpkin, and this year’s big offseason acquisition has continued his early season trend after coming back from injury of being the biggest signing bust in Jays history. If not for George Springer and Varsho putting the offense on their backs at times they would be dead in the water before this weekend.
