Can Buck move Britton up to the 4-hole?

Another loss for the Orioles, who will be 36 and 50 after the game. Josh Beckett is pitching lights out. His ERA is 2.12 and he has only given up 65 hits in 106 innings. His WHIP is 0.91 and opposing hitters are batting .178 off him. Seems like we had a chance to sign him once, but small market team that we are, we just can't compete payroll wise with the Yankees and Red Sox, and it's just not fair according to Andy

He probably wouldn't have come here anyhow, he really wasn't worth all of that money, and he might have blocked the kids.

Strike the tents, pee on the campfire, this trip is over. The rotation doesn't exist after Matusz blew up, Britton and Arrieta are questionable, Guthrie is .... well, Guthrie, and a whole lot of nobodies have shown up to pitch. Outside of Nick and Matt there is no future here. The future is gone. Keeping maybe Hardy and Reynolds for next year is a start, but this club can't hit in the clutch and guys like Lee and Vlad are finished. There are no answers since we don't even have anything to trade!

Kinda difficult to picture this team picking itself up with the pitching the way it is. Practically speaking, 4 out of 5 nights this team has no chance in hell of competing against a top 5 club, so tonight could be just another ugly beatdown. They walk on the field as losers almost every night.

Tonight might be different- they might get rained out.

I'll stick with my earlier prediction-by the time this 4 game set is over, the Sox will have hung 50 or so on the Os. That'll give Buck some stuff to think about over the break. Like, do I really need this?

I can't imagine that Buck and Petey talk about baseball during their lunches. I mean, Angelos knows so little about it, and doesn't need to listen to people that do.

well that didn't take long, as britton has nothing tonite but a flat fastball that is gettind wacked all over the park, including the ball that hardy missed that should have been a DP.

You cannot pitch at this level if you can't throw strikes. And you have to actually get guys out with strikes. There is no big mystery here. That's why these guys go 5 innings on this team. They have no command.of their secondary pitches. They cannot get guys out with 2 strikes.
They cannot close out innings.

no worries about shutting down britton early. he'll do it all by himself.

I cannot even imagine what is going thru Buck Showalter's mind right now.