In the more innocent time four months ago where there was nothing to impede the run-up to the baseball season, there was one thing that “everyone” knew about the 2020 Orioles: They were going to be very bad. That’s because they were very bad in 2018, very bad in 2019, and the offseason moves before 2020 like trading Jonathan Villar and Dylan Bundy were likely to make them worse in the coming season.
A significantly shortened season due to COVID-19 and ownership foot-dragging opens up the small possibility of a fluky outcome over a small sample size.