Wednesday afternoon Orioles game thread: vs White Sox, 1:05

Dylan Cease, who kind of looks like Freddie Mercury and hasn’t been himself this year, facing the O’s on April 16.Did YOU know that only 0.08 runs separate the 2023 ERA’s of Kyle Gibson and Dylan Cease? And that both Cease and Gibson have a FIP (an ERA correcting for the fielders behind them) a full run lower than their earned run average? Kyle Gibson and Dylan Cease have gotten unlucky this year, but both have been about equally good. And for Cease, “about as good as Kyle Gibson” is a strange place to be.

Last year Cease was a bona fide ace, finishing runner-up in the AL Cy Young vote after leading the AL in ERA for most of the season (with a 2.20 mark) and posting a 14-8 record with 227…