The 2025 Orioles season is now more than 20% complete. It has not gone well so far. At 13-20, the O’s are fortunate to not be farther than five games out of the AL East lead. There are a lot of reasons why this is happening, including that Mike Elias had a bad offseason plan. Yet it also comes down to a number of players who are not playing well whose failure to this degree was not to be expected.
In a survey last week, I asked which struggling Oriole had you most concerned about his future. A strong majority of 60% chose Adley Rutschman.