The Orioles were not picked by many to win the AL East this year. In fact, a majority of “experts” picked the team to finish with a losing record. In a perfect world, the quotation marks around the word “expert” would represent a sarcastic tone that cast doubt on these men and women’s baseball knowledge. The Orioles would have proven the projections wrong once again, and thumbed their noses as they waltzed into the playoffs. That didn’t happen.
Instead, the only reasons those “experts” should be questioned is because they failed to predict just how bad the Orioles would be in 2018.