The 2021 Baltimore Orioles are not a good team. This is not a controversial statement, even to the most hardcore Baltimore fan. They have some promising prospects working their way through the system (including MLB Pipeline’s No. 2 overall prospect, Adley Rutschman), but they are on pace to finish below .500 for the fifth-straight year, and currently have the worst record in the majors. FanGraphs gave them virtually no shot at making the playoffs prior to the season, and they weren’t wrong.
But the thing is, the Orioles also weren’t a good team in 2019 — they lost 108 games that year.