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Cockcroft: Baltimore Orioles preview

By Tristan H. Cockcroft
ESPN.com

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Apparently, the arrival of noted pitching guru Leo Mazzone wasn't the solution to snapping the Orioles' string of consecutive sub-.500 finishes. After leading the Braves to six team ERA titles and eight sub-4.00 team ERAs in his final 10 seasons in Atlanta, Mazzone must have been humbled by seeing his new squad register a 5.35 mark in 2006, the second-worst mark in the majors. It would result in the Orioles' ninth straight losing season, and the eighth time during those nine years the team finis ...

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