It’s been nearly four years now since the last good month of Orioles baseball. The team has not finished above .500 in a full month of games since August, 2017, and even that 17-12 August only set up a 7-21 free-fall to close out the season - enough to convince the previous GM to go for it in 2018, and we all know how that went.
The fact that this has gone on for so long is not the fault of Mike Elias or his front office. The Dan Duquette/Buck Showalter era flamed out spectacularly. Duquette’s belated fire sale trades have, thus far, done very little to set up the franchise for a better future.