Yankees Lead AL East, Orioles' Playoff Chances Discussed

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00:00I'm guessing, Craig, that it's the Yankees, American League East, to lose here at this

00:08point.

00:09But how concerned are you with Baltimore, really just even heading into the playoffs

00:13at this point?

00:15Because they do finish, I think, what, second to last series against one another here.

00:19But by that point, it could be over, no?

00:21Yeah.

00:22You know, it's funny, Joe, when Donnie's on the show along with Ben, we talk about this

00:26at the trade deadline, Ben, right?

00:27The Orioles are never going to push their chips all the way in, ever, at the trade deadline.

00:31This is just not the way they're going to operate.

00:32They're very happy winning 88 to 93 games, somewhere along those lines, and sort of recognizing

00:38that the postseason is a tournament.

00:40A lot of Orioles fans aren't happy with that.

00:42They probably wish they should have done a bit more.

00:44But this is just the way they're going to do business.

00:46They're going to develop prospects.

00:48They're going to get them to the next level, call them up, have them for five, six years.

00:53And then, inevitably, some of them, they keep.

00:54Some of them, they let go.

00:55So look, Santander's been carrying them.

00:58I believe he hit his 40th home run last night, if I'm not mistaken.

01:00He'll be a free agent at the end of the season, too.

01:02But the Orioles have enough prospects in the minors that they'll call up there.

01:06But I just don't see them ever making mega trades to sort of put themselves over the

01:13top.

01:14If you think about it, guys, even the trade that they acquired Corbin Burns and Joey Ortiz

01:18has done a great job for Milwaukee, that was not really a blockbuster trade when you consider

01:21the fact that Burns is a free agent at the end of the year, too.