Many of the Orioles stars from years past who helped the team constantly outperform their preseason win-loss projections are gone, which is a shame, since no team is projected to lose more games than the 105 losses that Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA has them pegged for in 2019.
The annual projections use a player's past performance and the underlying data to project what BP calls "the most likely outcome" for the upcoming season.
And after losing 115 games last year and bringing back largely the same roster from that franchise-record-setting team, the systems project the Orioles to lose over 100 games yet again.