The surging O's are in first place in the American League East.

Having a great weekend against the race this past weekend.

We'll talk about them.

We'll talk about a little tiny trade that just happened between the Dodgers and the Red Sox.

And we'll talk about just a lot of things that are catching our eye as well as the decline of trades in fantasy baseball.

All that coming up on the Rotowire fantasy baseball podcast.

Everybody, welcome to the Rotowire Fantasy fantasy fantasy baseball podcast i'm jeff ericson here

with fred zincky and we're going to be talking a lot about the surging oryles on this

podcast i can't talk today that's really good for a podcast um fred how are you i'm good and i have

full use of my voice and all my language options. So maybe I can carry us if you start, if you can't find the words today. Yes, I'm, I mean, you're going to carry me even more than you usually do. So, uh, so, uh, there you go. Uh, I, part of that is, I swear, I mean, just my head does spin this right this time of year.

We got training camps opening in football.

I cover football you do too, so you know how that goes.

And then you've got a lot of life stuff going on.

I got the AYSO national championships this week.

And I'm just doing a lot of driving back and forth.

Let's jump right into it, though.

The Baltimore Orioles are surging in a big,

big way right now. They just passed the Tampa Bay raise, who we thought, you know, had the biggest

lead in baseball for the longest time, and they just ran them down. And now they're up two and a half

games on the raise. They're 62 and 38, 24 games over 500.

They've won three in a row, including a couple of those against said raise. And they're just playing great ball, despite having a starting pitching staff that nobody's afraid of.

Yeah. I mean, the Orioles, they're on a bit of a role. I think the bigger story here is the, to me, is the tumble of the raise. Probably. For example, when I pull up, just Google the AL standings, the Orioles are seven and three in their last 10. The twins are actually eight and two. There's a couple other seven and threes in there, a few six and fours.

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