Good morning Birdland,

Folks, are the Orioles back? I‘m thinking they’re back!

They won again on Tuesday night in Seattle . It’s their fourth straight win—a season high—and their seventh win in their last 10 games. Over this stretch they have inched their way up the standings ever so slightly. There are now two teams worse than them in the AL (Athletics and White Sox ), and the Orioles sit nine games back of a wild card spot.

Now, this little run has not changed the Orioles chances all that much. FanGraphs gives them a 2.8% chance of making the playoffs . That’s not nothing! But it is also not great odds. So we can pause any playoff preparations for now.

That said, it is clear that this team is playing much better baseball the last two weeks. Much of that is because the starting p

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