The Orioles, after Wednesday afternoon's loss to the Rays, are now five games below .500 and five games out of a wild card spot. It is increasingly more difficult to imagine their path to the postseason. Despite this, the Orioles remain ready to "go either way" prior to the trade deadline, according to ESPN's Jerry Crasnick.
This is not exactly a new development on its own. This back-and-forth indecisiveness has been a theme in the reporting on the Orioles thinking through July. Neither is another detail about the Orioles included by Crasnick: That the chances of trading closer Zach Britton are growing "slimmer by the day," with a market for Britton not having developed the way that the Orioles might have hoped.