Swept out of the playoffs yet again and didn’t really put up a fight.
Death by 1,000 paper cuts in 2014 and 2024. Who could have seen that coming?
The playoffs are a fickle bitch.
4th most runs in baseball this season and they scored a grand total of 1 run in the playoffs.
Changes have to be made, coaching staff, hitting coaches, something.
Two years in a row of laying absolute eggs in the playoffs.
192 wins in the past 2 regular season and 0 to show for it.
Not a single win.
1 run in 2 home playoffs games is insane.
No one offensively showed up this series except Cedric Mullins.
2 hits in Game 1, solo shot in Game 2 and thats it.
Let’s look at how the rest of the big boys did.
That is good for a .093 average.
Their 6 best players absolutely no showed this series.
1-7 with RISP in Game 1, 0-6 in Game 2.
And boy oh boy were there some PATHETIC swings this series.
Disgusting approaches, disgusting at-bats, some boneheaded mistakes.
Just an awful series all around, it really is the cherry on top of this disappointing season.
It’s not even like the Royals played that much better, they scored 3 runs!
3 runs on 14 hits is all it took for the O’s to start making tee times.
This was a failure of a season, absolutely no other way to look at it.
Yes, the injuries killed them this year….but the offense hadn’t been this healthy in months.
Just an absolute no-show.
The injuries also are not an excuse, literally every team has them.
Can’t use that excuse.
Getting Burnes was great but there were plenty of other holes that were not filled.
Things have to change this offseason.
A full season of new ownership, David Rubenstein better be opening the checkbook.
Things just did not go right for this team.
We saw flashes from Jackson but it’s clear he was not ready.
Adley Rutschman was terrible in the 2nd half, that is putting it nicely.
He hit under .200 and has to be battling some sort of hand injury, he has to be.
He has to be better, and he wasn’t.
Nothing went right for this club, nothing.
No lucky breaks and that followed them into the playoffs.
They didn’t have the star power and veteran leadership to get through the bad times.
Spend the money David, revamp whatever you gotta revamp and get them over this hump.
This young core is here, this is the time to pay guys and win something meaningful.
Not a division title where the reward is a t shirt.
It’s an incredibly disappointing ad sad ending to the season.
Last year they just ran into the buzzsaw that was the Rangers, that happens.
This series they flat out did not show up.
How did they completely fall off in the 2nd half?
What is going to change within the clubhouse and warehouse.
The O’s needed 1 guy to step up and they just didn’t get it.
Disappointing, frustrating, infuriating, those are the words I’m stuck on.
