Orioles are Moving in the right direction

Being an avid Baltimore sports fan one thing that unfortunately has been the norm is the Orioles being bad, i mean really bad. The last winning season for the O's was in 1997 when they went wire to wire, i was 11. For me i have two really good memories of Oriole baseball, the Cal Ripken years and back to back playoff berths in 1996 and 1997, pretty sad right. So you can understand when the front office tells Oriole fans to be patient and they are moving in the right direction, the fans are hard to accept that while losing 90 games a season. But for Oriole fans take a step back for just a moment and realise that in fact they are moving in the right direction. Whether its through the draft or through trades there aren't many moves that Andy McPhail have made that you can question. First look at the outfield, maybe one of the best young outfields in all of baseball. Nick Markakis, Adam Jones and Nolan Reimold, all 3 are capable of hitting over .300, 15-25 HR and drive in 75-100 runs a season. Not to mention they are great fielders, Reimold is a little behind Jones and Markakis, Jones has a Gold Glove and Markakis is always amongst the top in outfield assists. Behind the plate you got potentially a really good catcher in Matt Wieters, who got off to a slow start but eventually showed why he was a top 5 pick. His arm got better as well in one game Wieters threw out Carl Crawford twice, pretty impressive. Now on to the pitchers we all saw Brian Matusz, Chris Tillman, Brad Bergesen and we still hear about Jake Arietia, Troy Patton, Zac Briton this team has a surplus of young and potentially good pitching. O's fans need to be patient as hard as it may sound this team is absolutely moving in the right direction, hopefully in the next couple seasons the Orioles will be back to competing.