The 2019 Orioles are one of the more woeful baseball teams ever assembled. Most of the time they take the field, they are going to lose. The biggest question that they face in any given game is what, exactly, will happen to cause them to lose. On Sunday afternoon in their series finale against the Rockies, they had a particularly frustrating loss, blowing a 7-6 lead in the ninth inning to lose, 8-7, on a walkoff sacrifice fly.
What’s most disheartening to me about this Orioles team is the way that the players who, before the season, could have been hoped to be trade bait, often seem to be at the center of these awful losses.