Everything about the 2020 Orioles season can be construed as a small sample size, making it difficult to separate the noise from what’s real.
For the Orioles and their inexperienced major league bats who are trying to solidify themselves as big leaguers, that makes this season and its results all the more important.
Fortunately for them and the surprisingly competitive Orioles, the results have been good. The question is, will they stay that way?
When the Orioles put out videos of Ruiz’s walk-off home run against the Houston Astros this time last year all over social media, it looked like a different guy at the plate.