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Breaking Down the Early Strugglers in the MLB Season
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5/2/2025
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uh but let's look at three teams that had postseason aspirations and and i'm gonna ask you
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matt if you changed your opinion at all in any of these i have not on the braves i do think the
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braves are gonna be there in the end and they did have a horrible start but i think they fixed
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themselves uh do have concerns with the orioles i think everybody else does too because of the
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pitching uh texas yesterday made a pretty bold move sending jake burger down who uh you know
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certainly they traded for this offseason thought he did 30 home runs right now we'll have to do
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that in the minors so i have some concerns on the rangers too but i suppose matt when you look just
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look at that and you see the way that the orioles are trending something something evasive is going
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to have to happen here soon unfortunately it may end up being the manager i don't i don't think it's
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brandon hyde's fault but i mean they've got to change something there right yeah for sure and
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it's it's they're just kind of bad in every way and some of it you just look at well a couple of
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the offensive stars a couple guys everyone just penciled in to have solid seasons if not great
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seasons aren't hitting is that gonna continue probably not they'll turn around uh but the
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pitching has just been terrible the defense has been terrible and there just isn't anything going
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well in in those two aspects of the game and that's pretty important and when you throw in
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disappointing hitting on top of that you're gonna have a team that's struggling as much as they are and
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it's gonna take a a really big turnaround for them i think to get back and in contention and really
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have a shot to make any noise so yeah that team like you said i'm worried about the other two you
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know the rangers actually when you look at the underlying numbers they're very good i mean the
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pitching has been fantastic there's another big asterisk if they stay healthy but it's been really
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good the hitting's been a little disappointing but as they always say right that heats up as the weather
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heats up in texas so i think they'll be fine i think it's just one of those mental things when
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you look at the al west standings you see them in fourth place and you think oh this is well
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okay they're in that group as it is always this time of year that's within three games of each other
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you know you have a couple really good teams a couple really bad and then just a big a big group
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in the middle so i think they're going to continue to play better and eventually break out there
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and they're going to be right there in the end too like most people predicted at the beginning
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of the season the braves are a little tougher uh they obviously have had the injury bug early again
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i think they've been disappointed in a few ways uh that they didn't expect um but you know you can
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reasonably look at a lot of their players who maybe have struggled early in the year and say well this
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guy's obviously going to be better whether it's looking at the underlying numbers or just knowing
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the talent they have and like you said i think it's going to start coming together a little bit more
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and if guys can get healthy i think they're going to be there in the end too but definitely not the
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start they wanted uh you know coming in with a lot of high expectations and a lot of high hopes
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