Do you know something cool? The Orioles have already equaled their preseason projected win total from the PECOTA model. That projection thought they’d go 74-88 this season. The Orioles are already 74-45. Perhaps it will be a common thread if this becomes the next era of extended good O’s baseball, just like the last one, that they are always beating what the computers and the experts think.
This is a meaningless milestone at this point. It doesn’t matter! The Orioles have long since had their sights set on greater heights than beating those meager projections. They are set even higher than “just” a wild card spot at this point.