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Orioles will need Steve Pearce to make adjustments as the season goes along

Baseball, you will often hear, is a game of adjustments. Especially in this data-driven age, if you show any kind of strong tendency to do something, opposing teams will shift (pun intended) their tactics to counter you. Hit a lot of balls to one part of the field? Expect defenders to position themselves there. Show that you swing and miss a lot of pitches up in the zone? You’ll start seeing more balls at the letters. It’s on you as a player to counter these adjustments, to either deal with the new tactics being used against you or reinvent yourself so that they no longer work.