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Originally Posted by MacGuyver
I like the Orioles actually, and they will certainly beat Toronto for 4th in the East. The only thing holding the O's up is their pitching. DJ kind of spelled it all out, really being the O's fan anyways so I'm sure he knows much more than I do, but I would like to see the O's make a trade with Oakland. Oakland has a wealth of young and very talented pitching, so if I were a GM, that's what I'd do.
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The O's do too, it's just still coming through the system. And it isn't that far away. There were four guys with double-digit wins and sub-3.6 ERAs at AA last year; all four are starting at Norfolk and one (Bergesen) probably should have made the team out of spring training. Bergesen and Tillman probably will be up by June.
Andy MacPhail has said several times since being hired that his goal in Baltimore is to grow the pitching as much as possible, since quality pitchers are much harder to find at non-exorbitant rates than hitters. So, it's just a waiting game and hoping that for once the Orioles end up on the lucky side of the attrition rates for pitching prospects (or just pitchers, for the TINSTAAPP fans).