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Everything is bigger in Texas

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Including the win streaks. I go down to Mexico for a week while my Orioles went to Texas and went 7-0 against the two teams down there including 3 straight shutouts. All this occuring not long after losing Jose Fernandez and Andrew Cashner (who is back this week). Since the last time either of those guys have made a start, the Orioles have been 15-7.

Hopefully the bats can soon wake up and make up for the likely regression to be seen from Carlos Carrasco who went 3-0 with a 0.86 ERA since Cashner went down (I've been impressed enough with Carrasco's peripherals over the 3 game stretch that I'm moving Petit back to the bullpen instead). Since joining the O's, Crush Davis has hit .203/.288/.356, Jason Heyward has hit .184/.250/.330 and Brad Miller has hit .192/.273/.283.

Anyway, suddenly the O's are legit WC contenders for the first time in God knows how long.
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Vacek in 2007?
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I think Gudim in 2008 or 2009 won ~100 in Baltimore but didn't make the playoffs.
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It was Jason in '08, he won 103 games, good enough to be 2 games out of the wild card.
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Looks like the Jays were the ALWC in 2007 and the message board records don't go back further than that. Have the O's ever been to the playoffs?
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Not that I'm aware of. Dan left so he could take over the NL East and never made them. Jason just missed and ended up in KC
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I couldn't take the heat, so I got out of Baltimore.
2010 KC 83-79
2011 KC 94-68
2012 KC 83-79
2013 KC 90-72; AL Central Champs
2014 KC 84-78
2015 KC 103-59; AL Central Champs
2016 KC 97-65; Lost WC Game to BAL
2017 MIN 80-82
2018 MIN 84-78
2019 MIN 80-82

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