If you step back and honestly access the Orioles’ roster for what it is https://www.baltimoregearshop.com/ryan-mountcastle-jersey, we should not be too surprised by the current state of affairs. The starting pitcher options coming into the season were dire, and a decent April didn’t change that. It has all come crashing down in May.It’s also possible that a better-than-expected 2020 season (that lasted just 60 games, by the way) may have lulled us, as a fanbase, into a false sense that the team was closer to mediocre than bad. That probably was never true.At the same time, there are some pretty obvious ways that they team could improve and claw its way back to respectability before the end of the summer.The starting pitching https://www.baltimoregearshop.com/merv-rettenmund-jersey, as a group, has almost nowhere to go but up. Some of the young pitchers in the mix are talented enough to tweak some things and get back to the level on which they know they can pitch.On offense players like Ryan Mountcastle and Anthony Santander will lift their numbers back to the range where they belong as well. It’s possible that neither matches the performance from last year, but it shouldn’t be so far off.Also, a small influx of prospects will be coming...eventually. There is a decent chance that someone like Jahmai Jones or Mike Baumann makes a big league splash sometime in the next couple of months. That might not make a huge difference in the standings, but it sure would give us a rosier image heading into 2022.Links & NotesUpdating Hays’ hamstring, more on bullpen and Tate rehab | School of RochA healthy Austin Hays isn’t going to fix most of the Orioles problems, but it would at least give us something exciting to watch. We’re grasping at straws here, people.Oriole