Baltimore Orioles first half report card

Ok I am going to be frank, coming into the season I had no expectations for the Baltimore Orioles. Years of futility plus an assortment of questionable offseason trades didn’t give the fans much faith. Take that and mix in an incredibly deep AL East and you have a recipe for disaster. And yet, here we are. At the halfway point of the season the Orioles stand at 45-40, and somehow still hold onto a slim lead in the wildcard lead. So let’s do like college professors do and give Baltimore their midterm report. We are going to break up the grades into multiple different categories, including player performance and those so called “questionable” offseason moves. Finally we will give an overall grade to the first half of the Baltimore Orioles season. So let’s start things off with the Orioles weak point coming into the year, starting pitching. Starting Pitchers: If this was purely based on preseason expectations I could not give a high enough grade. But sadly, that is not the case. I have...