What's proved to be a year of seismic changes for the Orioles on and off the field still packed in plenty of actual baseball over the required 162 games, even if it might have been nice for them to mercifully end by about halfway through.
If 2018 is remembered for anything going forward with the Orioles, it will be the series of trades in July that upgraded the farm system some, and the changing of the guard from the Dan Duquette-Buck Showalter era to the Mike Elias-Brandon Hyde leadership tandem, and all the changes that came from it.