Brandon Hyde is playing Whack-a-Mole with the Orioles lineup

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesSince the start of spring training, the new Orioles management was clear that a main priority of this team was going to be the defense. Speaking to reporters back on April 20th, Brandon Hyde explained:

This isn’t a team that’s going to break any home run records, this isn’t a team that’s going to break any strikeout records. We’re going to have to catch the ball. I look at last year’s stuff this offseason, it was obvious to me that we had to make defense a priority to compete, so that was something we said early in spring training, and we’ve worked hard at it and I think our guys have done a great job so far and we’re going to continue making it important.

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