Baltimore Sun's Orioles beat writer Jon Meoli on the Orioles decision to not bring Buck Showalter back for another season. (Kevin Richardson / Baltimore Sun video)
Buck Showalter isn’t going to curse the fates for the way the Orioles renaissance he helped engineer came unraveled over the past couple of years. He’s old school and he knows that the manager always ends up paying the price for persistent on-field failure.
He might go home with his ego slightly bruised and perhaps tell himself he won’t manage again, but his ability to reconstruct a troubled organization has been proven more than once and he likely will be required somewhere soon.