The 2017 Orioles season is finally over. The book is closed on them. They can lose no more. Now is the time to start reckoning with the disaster that engulfed them for the month of September. Although they could pretend otherwise from April through August due to weakness in the rest of the league, this was a failed baseball team. There’s no way to look at it any differently.
When everything was said and done, the Orioles MLB-worst starting rotation ERA clocked in at 5.70. They took a bad unit from last year, where their 4.