Thursday Bird Droppings: The Orioles have some recurring starting pitching problems

Hello, friends.

The Orioles are now 6-6 on the 2023 season, somehow already six games behind the still-undefeated Tampa Bay Rays. That’s ridiculous. What’s also ridiculous is the way the Orioles lost last night’s game to the Athletics, a stupid 8-4 setback to an Oakland team that had a poor offense, at least until this series came along. Check out Stacey’s recap of the game for the not-so-lovely totals.

There are two big problems for the Orioles as they have played along these first dozen games. The first is that their starting pitchers aren’t doing too well. Dean Kremer was another example of this last night, giving up four runs in an outing where he couldn’t even get himself through the…