The past season featured an orioles team that looked very competitive for most of the season and that had a chance to finish above .500 for the fist time in a decade. They were a team that had many new pitchers and some young new everyday players. Thge Orioles outperformed their expectations throughout most of the year until the fell into an abysmal pit the last 2 months of the season.
With last years disapointment hopfully will bring this years joy many of the Orioles players had career years such as Aubrey Huff, Brian Roberts, Melvin Mora, and Luke Scott. The Orioles had one of the best offenses in the American league last year and will probably want to add to it with a big free agent acquisition and call-ups of some of the promising prospects in Bowie and Norfolk.
While the O's offense was above average the pitching was not, The Orioles had injuries affect everyone on their opening day starting rotation and injuries forced Adam Loewen to stop pitching alltogether. In order to suplant their pitching the Orioles probably will call up some more prospects from the minor leagues such as Brad Bergeson, Chris Tillman, and David Hernandez. This all depends on the performance of Garret Olsen, Radhames Liz, and Brian Burres who all had disapointing seasons to say the least.
The part of the O's that we will see changed the most this off season will probably be the starting rotation where they will probably want tomake wholesale changes. If the Orioles sing a free agent like Mark Teixera that will further there already above average offense and if,barring any trades, Matt Albers and Chris Ray can come back healthy the O's should have a pretty deep and solid bullpen.
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