For an Orioles fan, the O’s holding a 34-40 record as we head into the final series of June is mighty exciting. The team was expected to be much worse than this and is proving to be surprisingly fun so far after years of bleak existence.
Mariners fans probably feel a bit differently about their team being 34-40 right now. They were ticketed for better than this, with a preseason PECOTA projection for 83 wins. That’s in the range where you only need a few things to break right to suddenly have a dominant 90+ win squad. That’s not how it’s worked out.