Ready or not, just 10 games remain for the Baltimore Orioles in 2019. While the win/loss record will look similar to last season’s final tally, at least we knew the 2019 Orioles were going to be bad. That wasn’t the case in 2018.
If there’s one good thing that came out of last year’s debacle, it’s the joy we get out of watching Adley Rutschman swing a baseball bat and gun down a potential base stealer. For the first time since 1989 when the Orioles drafted a RHP out of Louisiana State University named Ben McDonald (you may have heard of him), Birdland experienced the celebrations of a number one overall draft pick.