Not so long ago, the Baltimore Orioles seemed to be able to become a power at the top of the eastern section of the American League for the years to come.
In 2023, they won the division and totaled more than a hundred victories. With an exciting young nucleus, it seemed then that Baltimore was built to be in the portrait for a long time.
However, despite a good start to year in 2024, the Orioles were at best mediocre in the second half of the campaign and this was confirmed in the playoffs.
And now it continues in 2025, when the O's experienced a very beige start to the season as evidenced by their file below, 500. All this explained by the inaction of the staff this winter. It looks like the Toronto Blue Jays for recent years.
Indeed, although they finally spent a little money on the market for autonomous players, the Orioles let their best power striker put together (Anthony Santander) and their launcher (Corbin Burnes).
Even if the loss of the latter was not ideal, it was the lack of initiative to overcome his departure which is alarming in Baltimore, while the team replaced him in the rotation by Tomoyuki Sugano and Charlie Morton. With Morton being over forty and Sugano arriving from Japan, the franchise could not take a greater risk.
There were reasons to be worried when the campaign approaches, as Charles-Alexis Brisebois colleague repeated it repeatedly, and these concerns were confirmed at the start of the season.
At the point as the opportunity window of Maryland representatives could close faster than expected after making bad decisions during the dead season.
And we did not even talk about the fact that despite the fact that the nucleus of the team is still young, the Orioles did not extend the contracts of their young star players in the long term, which could become catastrophic sooner than late.
