Baltimore Orioles - The Covid-19 Years (2020-2029)
 
   
 
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  Titles:  Top Orioles Players of the Twenty Twenties  
  2023 - AL East Champs; Lost ALDS (Texas)  
  2024 - Lost WC to Kansas City Pitchers:  
    Dean Kremer (4) -  17  
  BallPark: Felix Bautista (5.6) -  16  
  Camden Yards Corbin Burnes (3.4) -  14  
    Kyle Bradish (6) -   11  
  Team Name: Kyle Gibson (0.9) - 11  
  Orioles Grayson Rodriguez (2) -  10  
    Jordan Lyles (0.98) -  9  
  Owner:  Jorge Lopez (1.65) -   8  
  Peter Angelos Tyler Wells (3.69) -  6  
    Alex Cobb (1.13) -  6  
  General Managers: John Means (4.69) -    6  
  Mike Elias  Cole Sulser (2.09) -   5  
    Craig Kimbrel (-1) - 5  
  Managers: Albert Suarez (2) -  5  
  Brandon Hyde     
    Catchers:  
  No Hitters: Adley Rutschman (12.94) -  30  
  2021 John Means (Seattle) Pedro Severino (1.9) -   5  
        
  Hall of Famers: First Basemen:  
  None Ryan Mountcastle (7.56) -   30  
       
  Rookie of the Year: Second Basemen:  
  2023 - Gunnar Henderson Gunnar Henderson (16.33) -  29  
    Jordan Westburg (3.6) -   7  
  MVP:    
  None ShortStop:  
    Jorge Mateo (4.53) -  16  
  Cy Young: Jose Iglesias (1.15) -  5  
  None    
    Third Base:  
  Notable Events: Ramon Urias (7.28) -  11  
       
  2020 - The Orioles enter the decade on a downer having finished last in the Outfield:  
  Division three years running. The poor play would continue for the first two  Cedric Mullins (15.38) -   40  
  years of the new decade, but there was a light at the end of the tunnel as  Anthony Santander (9.73) -   32  
  GM Mike Elias was amassing young talent through high draft picks and trades. Austin Hays (8.75) -   16  
    Ryan O'Hearn (3.2) -  11  
  Trades / Moves of veteran players: Trey Manicini (2.82) -  10    
   □ 2018 Deadline - 3B Manny Machado, 25, to the Dodgers for five prospects Colton Cowser (2.3) -  7  
  including RHP Dean Kremer, 23    
   □ 2018 Off Season - OF Adam Jones 32, to Arizona as a FA Notable Events:  
   □ 2019 Deadline -  RHP Andrew Cashner, 32, to Boston for two prospects    
   □ 2019 Off Season - 2B Jonathan Villar, 28, to Miami for a prospect  2024 - The Orioles are sold to Baltimore billionaire David Rubenstein for  
   □ 2019 Off Season -RHP Dylan Bundy, 26, to Anaheim for four prospects a relatively paltry sum of 1.7 billion. Rubenstein can't be any worse than  
  including RHP Kyle Bradish, 23 Angelos in the financial support department. And, if Rubenstein is willing to  
   □ 2019 Off Season - OF Trey Mancini is diagnosed with colon cancer open up the purse strings a bit, Baltimore is set to be a contender for years.  
    At the moment, the management team of GM Mike Elias and manager  
  Draft Picks and Acquisitions: Brandon Hyde has been retained. That is a good thing as they have both  
   □ 2013  C  Chance Cisco, 18, 2nd round  done a good job.  
   □ 2015  1B  Ryan Mountcastle, 18, 1st round     
   □ 2015  OF  DJ Stewart 21, 1st round  2024 - Elias has done one of the masterful jobs in baseball annals of turning  
   □ 2015  CF  Cedrick Mullins, 20, 13th round  high draft picks into gold. It's a lot tougher than people think.  
   □ 2016  OF  Austin Hays, 20, 3rd round  Baltimore overachieved to 101-61 mark in '23 when the runs totals indicated  
   □ 2016  OF  Anthony Santander, 21, Rule 5 draft from Cleveland  a 93-69 Mark. The difference was closer Felix Bautista. Unfortunately for  
  □ 2016  Closer  Felix Bautista, 21, signed as a minor league FA  the Orioles, Bautista is out for '24 with TJ surgery which means that   
   □ 2017  LHP  DL Hall, 18, 1st round  advantage is gone. They are going to try to replace Bautista with 36 year old  
   □ 2017  RHP  Mike Baumann. 21, 3rd round  Craig Kimbrel, but he's three years removed from being the lights out guy  
   □ 2018  RHP  Grayson Rodriguez, 18, 1st round  that Bautista was until Bautista went down with injury. Doesn't look like   
   □ 2019  C  Adley Rutschman, 21, 1st overall pick there's a good candidate for closer in the organization at the moment if  
   □ 2019  SS  Gunnar Henderson, 18, 2nd round  Kimbrel doesn't get his mojo back. Maybe new owner Rubenstein will come  
   □ 2019  SS  Joey Ortiz, 19, 4th round  to the rescue and open his pocketbook.  
  □ 2020  OF  Heston Kjerstad, 21, 2nd overall pick  In any event, Baltimore should continue to improve offensively as they've  
  □ 2020  2B Jordan Westburg, 21, 1st round pick  got a young club with lots of minor league talent waiting in the  
  □ 2020  3B Coby Mayo, 19, 4th round pick  wings as potential breakout contributors.  
  □ 2021  OF  Colton Cowser, 21, 5th overall pick  Prime candidates for internal improvements offensively are top prospects:  
   □ 2021  RHP  Tyler Wells, 26, Rule 5 draft from Minnesota  C Adley Rutschman, 26; 1B Ryan Mountcastle, 27; SS Gunnar Henderson, 23,  
  □ 2022  SS  Jackson Holliday, 18, 1st overall pick  2B Jordan Westburg, 25; OF Colton Cowser, 24; and OF Heston Kjerstad, 25.  
   □ 2023  OF   Enrique Bradfield, 19, 17th overall pick The number one prospect in baseball, SS Jackson Holliday, 20, will probably  
   □ 2024  OF Vance Honeycutt, 21, 22nd overall pick be ready to come up and make a splash during the season. He is the son  
    of former Rockies slugger Matt Holliday.  
  □  Peter Angelos is the owner and after suffering heart problems in 2017, his The pitching end of the organization is not quite so robust with prospects.  
  son John has been running the club. John has deferred the day to day Righty Grayson Rodriguez, 24, is the only pitcher that we see that should  
  operations to GM Mike Elias in 2019 and the O's have been in good hands.  show a significant improvement from '23 where he was 7-4 4.35.  
  Elias had helped orchestrate a similar rebuilding process in Houston prior to  Burnes and Gibson should be somewhat of a wash.  
  coming to the Orioles where they dealt away all their valuable veterans And Kimbrel will most likely not be able to replicate Bautista's success.  
  and then proceeded to build a competitive roster from scratch.    
    2024 - Look for Baltimore to be a better all around team altho' it will be hard  
  □ Elias brought in Brandon Hyde as his manager. Again, so far, so good.   to  beat last year's record without Bautista around.  
  Hyde replaced fan favorite Buck Showalter.    
    2025 - The Orioles regress surprisingly in '24. They drop ten wins back into   
  2020 - Baltimore finishes fourth in the covid shortened season second place. The young hitters didn't improve as was expected, but it was  
  he pitching that collapsed. Corbin Burnes was brought in as a free agent  
  2021 - The O's bottom out at 52-110, but there is a strong farm system in place or things would have been much worse. The Orioles lost lights out closer  
    Felix Bautista to injury and could not replace him. They tried legendary  
  2022 - Baltimore makes a huge 31 game jump in the standings  closer Craig Kimbrel, but his shelf life had been passed and all he did   
  The difference was all in the pitching. The club scored a similar number of runs was pour gas on the fires. The lack of a closer hurt the rest of the staff as  
  in '21 and '22, but the O's staff gave up 268 less runs in '22. It wasn't that the well. Starter Dean Kremer got very mediocre. And starter Kyle Bradish   
  22 staff was so good, it was that the '21 staff was so bad, yielding 956 runs. got hurt. The Orioles let Burnes slip thru their fingers as they lost him  
  A lot of the staff returned from '21, but improved markedly in '22 from horrific to  to Arizona as a FA. Huge loss. Mitigating that loss somewhat will be the   
  decent. Jorge Lopez had the biggest turnaround going from 3-14 6.07 as a  signing of 35 year old Japanese righty Tomoyuki Sagano. The other huge   
  starter to 4-6 1.68 and 19 saves as a closer. Even tho' the Orioles were in the loss during the offseason was OF Anthony Santander, 28, and his   
  thick of the race for a wild card spot, Elias dealt Lopez to the Twins for five forty four homers to Toronto. This one really hurts.  
  prospects at the trade deadline. It would have been an odd deal except that    
  Elias knew that he had Felix Bautista waiting in the wings. Bautista, a late  2025 Pitching (Losing Burnes hurts, Bautista return helps);  
  bloomer, added another 15 saves on a 2.19 ERA as a 27 year old rookie.  □ RHP Grayson Rodriguez, 25, '18 draft 11th overall pick, 13-4 3.86  
     □ RHP Zach Elfin, 31, '24 Trade from TB at trade deadline, 5-1 2.60  
  2023 - Baltimore's youngsters start to mature and the Orioles gain   □ RHP Tomoyuki Sugano, 35, maybe he'll approximate Burnes' success   
  eighteen games in the standings to 101-61 and a Division Title. at age thrity five. Free agent signed from Japan after a stellar career there.  
  The O's lose in the first round in the playoffs to eventual World Series  □ RHP Charlie Morton, 41, '25 FA from Atlanta, 8-10 4.19  
  Champions Texas.  □ RHP Dean Kremer, 29, '18 Trade from LA, 8-10 4.10  
     □ RHP Kyle Bradish, 28, '20 Trade from LA, TJ Surgery  
  2023 - Offense improved by 133 runs from '22 to '23. That's highly   □ Closer Felix Bautista, 30, '16 FA from Miami, TJ Surgery  
  significant almost a run a game. The lions share of the gain came  □ Solid Relievers: LHP Keegan Akin, RHP Yennier Cano, RHP Jacob Webb  
  from two youngsters: IF Gunnar Henderson, 22, who went 22 82 .255;    
  and C Adley Rutschman, 25, who improved from 42 RBI to 80 RBI. 2025 Hitting (Didn't progress as hoped in '24):  
     □ C  Adley Rutschman, 27, '19 1st overall pick, 19 79 .250  
  2023 - The pitching improved significantly, as well, as the O's went   □ C  Gary Sanchez, 31, '25 FA from Milwaukee, 11 37 .220  
  from 7 runs given up more than the league average to 70 runs below  □ C  Samuel Basallo, 20, '21 IFA  
  the league average. A gain of half a run a game.  □ 1B  Ryan Mountcastle, 28,'15  1st round, 13 63 .271   
  The players responsible for the improvement: □ SS  Jackson Holliday, 21,'22  1st overall pick, 5 23 .189  
   □ Kyle Gibson, 35, FA signed from the Phillies went 15-9  □ SS  Gunnar Henderson, 24,'19  2nd round, 37 92 .281 21SB   
   □ Dean Kremer, 27, improved from 8-7 to 13-5  □ 3B Jordan Westburg, 26, '20  1st round pick, 18 63 .264   
  □ Kyle Bradish, 26, improved from 4-7 to 12-7  □  3B Coby Mayo, 23,  '20 4th round pick   
  □ Mike Bauman, 27, improved from 1-3 to 10-1   □ CF  Cedrick Mullins, 30, '15  13th round, 18 54 .234 32SB   
  □ Felix Bautista, 28, improved from 15 saves to 33 saves □ OF  Colton Cowser, 25,'21  5th overall pick, 24 69 .242   
  □ Yennier Cano, 29, obtained in '22 in Lopez deal was 1-4 2.11 with 8 saves  □ OF  Heston Kjerstad, 26, '20 2nd overall pick, 4 14 .253  
  □ Cionel Perez, 27, fell from 7-1 1.40 to 4-2 3.54   □   OF  Tyler O'Neill, 30, '25 FA from Boston, 31 61 .241   
     □   OF  Anthony Santander, 30,'16 Rule 5 draft from Cleveland, 44 102 .235  
  2024 - A big blow to the pitching staff as Kyle Gibson, 36, is signed away Gone to Toronto in Free Agency leaving a huge hole in the Orioles lineup.  
  as a free agent by the Cardinals    
       
  2024 - Baltimore offsets the loss of Gibson by acquring ace righthander    
  Corbin Burnes, 29, from Milwaukee for lefty DL Hall, 25, and IF Joey Ortiz, 25.