Orioles do Oriole things, get humiliated by Mets, 16-5

So, uh...how we all feeling about this “rebuilding” thing?

I mean, blowing up the team was necessary, of course. The Orioles were going nowhere, except straight into the deepest pits of the baseball record books. They were utterly broken. So they committed to getting younger, to rebuilding from the ground up, and those were absolutely the right moves. The Orioles had to build for the future, to look forward to a day when things will get better.

But this was the kind of game that makes you think, “Wait...are things going to get better?” This 16-5 loss to the Mets was discouraging on many levels, from the Orioles’ supposed ace getting bludgeoned again, to the young pitchers being frighteningly…