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For the Orioles to reach the playoffs, “low” strikeout totals are key

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As it turns out, the Orioles aren’t setting records for most strikeouts recorded by a Major League offense. In fact, the offense is proving its pre-season skeptics wrong.

The 2016 season has been a strange one. The Orioles entered with a giant question mark attached to their name, and with just a little more than a month to play, the level of unknown is still surprisingly evident.

Before the season, the majority of the critics spotlighted on one particular potential issue that might’ve doomed the Orioles 2016 season — strikeouts. Not the starting pitching’s inability to miss bats, rather the lineup racking up potentially obscene, record-breaking, numbers in the K category.