From the dawn of baseball’s wild card era 30 years ago up until now, the Orioles have qualified for the playoffs in consecutive seasons on just one occasion: 1996, when they were the AL’s wild card team, and 1997, when they went wire-to-wire and won the AL East. The 2024 Orioles team is one that we all hope will be the one to break this 25+ year stretch of never being good two years in a row.
As fun as things were from the 2012-16 era of the Orioles, when they made the postseason three times in five seasons, they never managed to get in there the next year.