When you’re on pace for 106 losses and you have the second-worst run differential in the game, your list of flaws and holes is a long one.
No position has given the Orioles less, though, than second base.
Baltimore is a -1.8 WAR at second, the worst figure in all of Major League Baseball (according to Baseball-Reference.com), and it’s the only position at which the Orioles rank last. The Birds are also last there in OPS (.566, beating the Cubs’ .604).
This is a change from the recent past, when second base was a position you could count on the Orioles to be pretty decent.