Buck Showalter won't return to manage the Orioles in 2019, according to an industry source, ending what until this season had been a productive relationship with the manager who took over in August 2010 and brought playoff baseball back to Baltimore and an organization that was starved for it.
Showalter, whose contract was set to expire this month, said this weekend that he was "at peace" with a decision he seemed to expect the club's ownership to make after the worst season in franchise history. The Orioles went 47-115 in 2018, which counted as one of the worst records ever recorded in baseball.