The Orioles closed out their west coast road trip with a 6-3 record and a sweep of the league-worst Athletics. Mark runs through the good weekend as well as some of its frustrating intermediate results, surveys the standings, and then gets a little crazy and starts saying it: Playoffs! The Orioles are highly likely to make them, so, that being the case, what is the best way for them to line up their starting rotation? Some choices are good. Others, less so. From the mailbag, a listener wonders which Orioles might follow the Astros example and stick around through a seven-or-more-year stretch of successful O's baseball.

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