Hello, friends.
There are now 174 days remaining until the next Orioles game. This also happens to be the first day of the post-Buck Showalter era for the Orioles, what with yesterday’s news that Showalter and the O’s would be parting ways now that his contract has run out. It also is the first day of the post-Dan Duquette era, since the team announced on Wednesday night that Duquette would not return next year.
Just like that, two more links to the winning 2012-16 teams has been severed. The man who managed those teams that continually exceeded everyone in the wider baseball media world’s expectations is gone.