We’re currently about a month into the 2018 Major League Baseball season, and while there is obviously a long way to go, it is not terribly difficult to imagine which teams might be contenders into the summer and which ones won’t.
No area of the game has undergone a more dramatic overhaul in recent years than the role of the reliever. Long gone are the days of burnt-out starters hidden in the bullpen as a walking path to the closer.
There is only one question to ask when discussing the Baltimore Orioles in 2017: what the hell happened here? Just a few months ago, the O’s looked as if their breakout of 2016 had just been the start of something much bigger.