Baltimore Orioles 2025: A Look at Their Potent Lineup

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00:00I'll jump over to the Baltimore Orioles, a team that certainly

00:03is absolutely loaded in this lineup from start to finish and

00:06even added to it in the offseason by getting Tyler

00:08O'Neal, who's now actually well-traveled. You would say

00:11George, what three teams and in three years for O'Neal is going

00:14to bat in the middle of that lineup. My gosh, I mean, if

00:17healthy is always the thing with him, but my gosh, if healthy,

00:20it's a hundred runs driven in George on this team. Gunner

00:23Henderson, MVP candidate, first round pick in fantasy baseball

00:25leads it off. Adley Rutschman, Ryan O'Hearn. I mean, you

00:30really can't go wrong. Mountcastle's a big home run

00:32threat. Westbrook, really good at the bottom of the lineup.

00:34And by the way, Jackson Holloway, he's going to ease

00:36holiday. He's going to start batting ninth, but who knows?

00:39Like, I mean, he could be batting first by the end of the

00:41season. And by the way, they also have Sam Basayo, who if

00:45they decide to play at some point, he's like the top-ranked

00:47catcher from a prospect perspective in fantasy too. So

00:50the hits just keep on coming for Baltimore. I know their

00:52fans are upset. They're like, why don't we, you know, go all

00:55in on this stuff, but this is just not going to be the Orioles

00:58way. This is how they're going to do business. They want to

01:00compete every year. They just don't like giving up the

01:02prospects and simply put, as we'll see from the pitching,

01:06they're going to have to piece it together once again.

01:09This is the Mets all over again. It's the Mets. I mean,

01:12we know you can hit, you're not going to hit as well as the

01:14Mets here. Henderson's an MVP candidate, did trail off the

01:17second half of last year, at least the last third of last

01:20year wasn't the same player. Roachman didn't have the year

01:22last year. We thought he was going to have, I think he will

01:24be better this year. Roachman will have no problem drafting

01:27him as a top-three catcher. I think he rebounds here. Let's

01:30not forget, they brought the fences up again, in, and left

01:33the OVM. All right, not massively, but they brought it

01:36in now. Back and up. I mean, whatever. It's kind of ridiculous

01:39there, but should be a little bit better hitting for this

01:41team. They'll hit. You know, I've got too many youngsters

01:44here between O'Hearn, Kauser, Westbrook. I mean, they're not

01:48all going to hit. Some are going to struggle here. I think the

01:50Oil screwed up massively here. You have too many young players

01:53here. We did, you mentioned one prospect, they have others

01:55here. You need to trade another guy or two here. You can't let

01:58Burns, you need another pitcher in addition to Burns. All right,

02:01and you let him go and you didn't have anybody. I mean,

02:04you've taken another step behind the Yankees. Hell, I think

02:07Boston may have bashed you. All right. So I just, I'm just

02:10disappointed, Craig, because I think they, I think they made

02:13a huge mistake. They had a chance to really go for it,

02:15really. Yeah. I mean, come on. You've been bad for so long

02:19now. You could have been that team in the American League.

02:21You have to really threat the Yankees year after year after

02:23year and you blew it. In my mind, you blew it here. You

02:26can't, you're not, once again, you're not going to win games

02:288-6, 8-6, 9-7 over and over again here. Love the lineup.

02:31They're going to hit, you know, I don't mind having a couple

02:34of these guys, but too many young players. It's going to

02:36be a headache at times.

02:37Yeah, and they did upgrade the pitching. I mean, let's not

02:41get it twisted here. They doubt their pitching staff going

02:43into this year may not be better than last year because

02:45of Burns, but they did from their upgrade by putting Zach

02:49Eflin in this rotation, who is good for 150 innings and like

02:5350 strikeouts, but Zach Eflin is there. Grayson Rodriguez

02:57is this year. He takes like that step. We're waiting for

03:01Charlie Morton, Dean Kramer, and then Sugano, who they added

03:04to, who'll be in the back end of the rotation. They also

03:06have some other options there too. Trevor Rogers, who's

03:09the player who they traded for last year. I know they'd

03:11like to see him make the next step, but George, isn't it

03:13funny with Charlie Morton? We're playing the is he retirement

03:16game on? Are we on your six of this or five of this? Like

03:19how many seasons did we did we hear? Oh, he wants to be home

03:23and with his family and this is it and now he wants to just

03:26play, you know, with Houston or don't know. He wants to stay

03:30with Tampa Bay and and here he is. He's back again. And this

03:33time with the Orioles. I mean, no, if I like Charlie Morton,

03:36he's a friend of mine, but I can't trust anything. This guy

03:39says anymore. I don't think he's ever going to retire

03:42because what you said is because Charlie Morton was when

03:44you said it, right? He's going to said he was going to and

03:46now we get five years ago. I don't blame him. I said as long

03:50as people are going to pay me on the pitch. It's really that

03:52simple for me. I don't know a bitch. I'm going to play the

03:54game here. But what they have a whole lot of guy. We definitely

03:57needs to be perfect or he's going to get racked. Charlie

04:00Morton is a five and fly guy. You're praying for a quality

04:03start, you know, six innings three runs. You'll take that

04:05run, but a lot of time. He's gonna be five, you know, five

04:07plus and he's three four runs here. You know, you got you

04:11mentioned Trevor Rogers. They couldn't wait to get out to

04:13dump back in the Miners last year because he was terrible

04:15for them. Dean Kramer's nothing special here. I do like

04:18Grayson Rodriguez. I think he can take that next step, but

04:21they better hope he does because if he doesn't like I said,

04:24this is a whole lot of prayers here. This is a we're praying

04:27that Henderson's going to have 45 home runs, right? That

04:29Royce was going to have that rebound year 35 and all these

04:31other youngsters are going to hit because we're going to need

04:33to out hit teams with the bullpen is okay, but it's not

04:37truly special where it's going to be locked down. It's going

04:39to it's going to be tasked because most of these starters

04:41are not going deep into games here. What's that? What's good?

04:45We can say that for every team by the way, just that's where

04:46the 2025 baseball is. All right, so it's really a five and

04:50fly game and have the next related to a thousand miles an

04:52hour. I don't like it, but that's the way it is. Yeah, it

04:55is. But Charlie Morton, by the way, his debut was the year

04:59that the iPhone came out. It's true. And the closer by the

05:04way, I mean, this is a, you know, somebody that I definitely

05:07would target is Felix Bautista. I know that there's going to

05:10be some that shy away from him because he's been out for a

05:12season, but he is full go. He could have came back. I think

05:14at the end of the last season, I'm getting your canoe. I

05:17think it's fine, right? Like he was their eighth inning guy.

05:19I mean, I know eight and nine was they were fantastic last

05:22year. I mean their their canoe was so I do think that that

05:26is a target for me. Bautista was one of the best closures

05:29in baseball. Generally, this injury doesn't cause issues

05:31to that position. So I feel strongly about him.

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