Orioles' Struggles and Fan Disappointment Analyzed

Some clear winners and I guess some clear Losers, especially when it comes to the fan bases. I don't know how you're a couple of years removed from 101 wins Craig and how do you sell to the Orioles fan base that it's fine I we got it like we're heading in there, right? Are they or should we be losing faith here? And this is a tough one because this is a great baseball city. It's a great baseball town You know you were talking off the air before the show and I and I was really thinking about it It's true. The Orioles did go through a lot of losing for the future And and I gotta tell you that it I felt like they were coming out of it and on paper They were winning they started to win. They were fun team, you know with Gunnar Henderson and Colby Mayo and Rutschman who they just traded and They drafted Grayson Rodriguez and I was thinking like This is a team that's gonna win 90 games perennially and if not, maybe in the 80s at least Maybe they'll make the playoffs sometimes maybe not it just never happened You know Colton Cousins so many of these young guys. It was like all the Orioles have everybody How do they have so many prospects and they did and they never really came out of it Then they traded which I thought was an amazing trade where they got Corbin Burns But Joe, I think to me where this all changed for me is that And I know he got hurt and I know Corbin Burns on he on Arizona Who knows if he's coming back or not, but when he left the Orioles Joe to me That's that was the dividing line because you had the guy you had him in your building. You had to find a way I know he was gonna be a free agent, but you had to find a way to keep him in free agency Extension I mean he was I mean he's a young guy like this then you had him in your building and you let him go and they didn't replace him Again, they did not replace him again You can't win in the big leagues with one and a half starting pitchers Joe. You can't do it. It's not possible No, and and even though I've said, you know different things about AJ Preller Okay with San Diego and sometimes some screwy things are going on That guy at the deadline By the way, San Diego don't look a lot different than Baltimore right now. No pitching but they got Machado. They got Tatis They got Gavin sheets. They got they got some really good hitting but no pitching. So what did he do? Went out and got two pitchers. I'm waiting Joe Baltimore's trying these pitchers who are like, you know, Zach Eflin You know, like that's not gonna be good enough man. It's not it's not and so I don't I don't know what the answer is You're a hundred percent, right? it's I Mean either they got to go out Next offseason and I don't know who the best free agent pitcher out There is or this who the second one is they must get a front line starter or two To fight in that division with the Red Sox Yankees and Rays. It is not gonna work Shopping on the discount aisle for pitching with all this great hitting they have it's not gonna work. I Agree here and listen, you'll have a lot of and I understand the argument both ways here Greg But there'll be people that think What are you doing Brewers it whatever it was that you needed to do to get? scooble and to have miz and scooble as a one-two going into a Possible showdown with the Dodgers that this is a team that should have done it like the Brewers Hey, this was your opportunity to to stick it to the Dodgers and yet I don't hate some of the I still like I think Logan Henderson is Legit, I think what Dusty May they just ended up getting here with the trade We talked about how they bolstered that bullpen and sense of talent coming in. They missed out on Peralta, but You know the Brewers I don't hate what they did. I mean not everybody can get scooble It's just the way it is Yeah, and as we talked about before, you know, the Brewers, you know The Brewers have the top prospect in all of baseball the number one guy Should they give that guy up for two months of scooble who is never gonna sign back with Milwaukee I suppose if there's a cap and a floor I suppose if you knew right now Joe there was a cap and a floor different Conversation, but we literally don't know that's why there's a pending lockout with all of this stuff They can't do it. You can't you can't you it's it's you can't do it and by the way Look at what the Dodgers gave up for the expiring contracts of Max Scherzer and Manny Machado and Trey Turner. I Mean, they didn't give up all that. It's the same thing. It's it's a great pitcher a Generational type pitcher but for two months of baseball and the smart guys that we have running things in the game You're not gonna get what you think you're gonna get and so I don't know why everyone's popping off Joe's Saying that all anybody could have done it. It can't