The Orioles played some bad baseball at the end of the last decade. The club plummeted into a rebuild after a disastrous 47-115 season in 2018, and the team took several years to claw its way back to relevancy.
Baltimore currently sits at its darkest point over the last few seasons, but the front office remains optimistic that it can turn things around next year. It’s far too early to tell whether the O’s will compete in 2026, especially with the O’s turning out a rebuild-quality roster for the final six weeks of the season.
Austin Hays, Cedric Mullins and Anthony Santander all started games for the Orioles in 2019, but the trio did not emerge as Baltimore’s “outfield of the future” until after the 2020 covid season. Mullins put together his famous 30/30 season in 2021, and Santander pos