The Orioles were a catastrophic failure in 2018. With their apparent plan of, “Assume everything that was bad about the 2017 team will improve and everything good will be as good or better,” it is no wonder they failed. That was never going to work. Lumped in among the many disappointments on the roster was Tim Beckham, who was not able to sustain the success he had after being traded to Baltimore last year.
It was never realistic to believe that Beckham might be able to equal his batting line from his 50 Orioles games last season: .