Welcome to OTM’s 2024 Red Sox Season Preview. Baseball typically features two teams playing each other at the same time, so for this series we’ll take a look not just at the Red Sox, but at their AL East and Wild Card rivals as well. Today we begin with the Baltimore Orioles.
Man, what a difference a few years can make.
During the 2021 MLB campaign, the Baltimore Orioles were in the pits. Hell, the pits might’ve been a more welcome destiny for the organization at that point in time. The team was cruising towards its fourth consecutive full season in the basement of the American League East (we’ll give them a break and take the COVID-shortened year out of this — don’t ask who came in last place in 2020) before eventually finishing with an abysmal 52-110 record.