MLB SEASON PREVIEWS 1/32: BALTIMORE ORIOLES (WHY AM I WRITING THIS?)

Why on Earth would anybody willingly still root for this team? I feel legitimately bad for these people and wish they would listen to reason and common sense, unfortunately they will not...fans, well,,,they often don't. 

But I get it, people have their rooting interests decided for them by geographical location and that's a WILD thing when you stop and think about it. Imagine if we did that with other shit, Not from Wisconsin? You can't have Cheese. Not from Italy? Can't eat Pizza. This may need to be its own blog at a later date, may be something I ponder perhaps. 

Thoughts with the Mancini Family.

Back to the Orioles...What is there to be excited about here? Villar? OH, Nope, you DFA'd him because 8M was far too much for the poor poor Angelos family. So he's out. You were already going to be GOD AWFUL and then your best player, BY FAR, is now out the en-tire season. If i'm an Orioles fan, the Rona came not a second too late. Just saved our ass from at least 80 games of embarrassment, let the season get canceled! 

Hanser Alberto was a neat find, butttttttttttt, if you have to get excited about a slappy .300 hitter...that just about says it all.

Bare with me though, as painful as it is, there's 2 semi-bright spots to overrate on social media when people shit on how bad your team is. John Means and Austin Hays are your hopes for any types of joy in the next 6 months.

On a team with absolutely nothing, Means was able to put up a 3.6 ERA with 120K's in 27 starts. On the surface, that's good but being able to do that in what is definitely, maybe the most toxic environment possible? Pretty good, he's already 27 so the chances he improves much, welp it's skim, but to have at least one (1) semi-reliable semi-proven starter keeps you from ending it all...at least hopefully. 

Austin Hays, in about 70 at-bats, looked like at fuckin' STUD. That's the problem though, give 'em another 70 AB's and that .950 OPS, could've easily been a .680 OPS. He's only been a Top 100 prospect once throughout his career, hall of fame here we come! Prospect rankings don't always tell the whole story though *cough* Aaron Judge *cough*, maybe Hays is the next stud OF in the DMV Area. 

Keep your head up Orioles fans, Adley is on the way. Or the world is about to end, one way or the other, the pain will be over soon....ish.