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Charlie Morton should’ve retired in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

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The Baltimore Orioles\u00a0rotation is a mess, and the front office is to blame. Mike Elias and the Orioles decided against offering ace Corbin Burnes the deal he wanted.<\/p>\n

Burnes took a longer-term deal from the Arizona Diamondbacks, which was closer to home and less AAV than he would’ve gotten from Baltimore. When Burnes signed elsewhere, their answer was…Charlie Morton.<\/p>\n

The O’s have plenty of young talent that ought to be performing better. However, Morton and Zach Eflin were their final answer for losing Burnes. Kyle Bradish and Grayson Rodriguez are well established and possibly future aces. However, like most young pitchers, they are also prone to injury.<\/p>\n

Morton has received the majority of the blame for\u00a0Baltimore’s rotation struggles\u00a0thus far. He was brought in from\u00a0the Braves\u00a0as a top-of-the-rotation talent, but he is little better than a bullpen piece at this juncture.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old ran out of gas near the end of last season with the Braves and hasn’t been the same since. Morton did not enjoy his free agency experience, as Atlanta wasn’t interested in a reunion. They may have had a reason for that, as Morton has since been removed from Baltimore’s rotation and sent to the bullpen. Even that approach has failed, as Morton made his first appearance from the O’s pen, and it did not go well.<\/p>\n

Charlie Morton is the least of the Orioles problems, but he should’ve retired<\/h2>\n

Morton gave up two runs in relief for the O’s on Sunday. In just one inning of work he gave up three hits and two earned runs. His ERA is headed in the wrong direction as well, and it now stands at an alarming 9.76. Just a few weeks ago, Orioles manager Brandon Hyde\u00a0called the Orioles pitching\u00a0’embarrassing’.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re just not going to be able to win games that way,\u201d Hyde said. \u201cYou\u2019re going to win them once in a while because you\u2019re going to outscore teams, but that\u2019s not how you win Major League Baseball games.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Even Morton was down on his confidence. The 41-year-old has pitched in the bigs for quite some time, but has rarely faced a challenge like this one.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you said, \u2018We\u2019ll give you 30 starts to get this right,\u2019 I\u2019ll get it right. It\u2019s just, how negatively do I affect the team during that process, right? That\u2019s the question,\u201d Morton said. \u201cDo I think that I can still pitch well? Yeah. It\u2019s just some of the things that are going wrong right now — like just throwing strikes, making decent pitches consistently, getting into a rhythm, getting some momentum. That\u2019s the issue.<\/em><\/p>\n

Since then, matters have only gotten worse. A move to the bullpen hasn’t improved Morton’s production. If anything, this suggests the O’s front office was wrong to begin with.<\/p>\n

At 13-20 and 5.5 games back of the AL East-leading Yankees, the Orioles cannot keep blaming Morton for their issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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