It’s a familiar place for an Orioles fan to be: on the cusp of a new baseball season, full of perennial spring hope, and then you read the mainstream press to find … derision. As usual, springtime Orioles-bashing is in full force. Not that Baltimore diehards are putting money on a playoff run by this team, of course, but as usual, there’s so much noise about the Orioles’ 0.0%—make that 0.1%!—chance of making the playoffs that it drowns out even the positives.
Some of those positives: a resurgent farm system with exciting talent a season or two, maybe, from the majors.