The Orioles had a horrendous terrible roster, which had a lot to do with them falling nearly 20 games off the pace in the AL East yet again.

It would stand to reason that if they actually want to be better in 2027 – and with David Rubenstein leading their private-equity ownership group, they probably don’t – that they would be discarding as much of this group as possible. We have already made the case for how few of their position players are anything close to being assured of being here by Opening Day , and at some point perhaps proven baseball failure Mike Elias will learn from past mistakes and stop bringing the same suspect players back over and over again.

Enough of the failed reunions (and enough of the terrible contracts allowing people like Ryan Helsley and Tyler O’Neill to opt in and stick around longer than they should) .…