Everyone keeps waiting for it, but it still hasn't happened. Everyone keeps pointing to their horrible run differential, but it hasn't made a difference. Nope, sorry folks, the Baltimore Orioles are still right in the thick of the playoff race and it doesn't look like they are going to go away anytime soon.
It defies almost every shred of baseball logic the surprising Orioles are still very much in contention one week into August. Given that they have an underwhelming roster and have carried a negative run differential almost all season, Baltimore is going from surprising to mind-blowing. When they got off to a hot start to the season, everyone said it wouldn't less. In the long run, the Orioles deficiencies were supposed to catch up with them. The only problem is that the long run isn't as neatly defined as a 162-game season, even if our brains really want that to be the definition.
If that were the case, the Orioles would have gone into their predictabl...
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