Walk Toward The Light: Your 2009 Baltimore Orioles

Like 2008's Nail in the Coffin series, 2009's Walk Toward The Light aims to memorialize the eliminated teams that are gone and will likely be forgotten.Baltimore OriolesCurrent record: 56-83 Season highlight: For such a bad team, there are a decent amount of individual achievements to choose from. Among them: The emergence of Adam Jones(notes) and Nolan Reimold(notes) in the outfield, Luke Scott's(notes) huge series against Detroit and Nick Markakis(notes) refusal to pack it up after being awarded a huge contract before the season. However, we have to go with Brian Roberts(notes) reaching the 50-double mark for the third time in his career. Only three other players have accomplished this in history — they're all in the Hall of Fame — and Roberts' numbers on such a subpar team continue to amaze. Season lowlight The Orioles clinched their AL-record 12th straight losing season with a 10-0 defeat at the hands of Boston on Sept. 8, thus ensuring that...