rewrite this title Orioles are showing signs of turning season around, but is it too late?

The Baltimore Orioles have been one of Major League Baseball’s biggest disappointments through the first two months of the season, but they might be finally starting to show some signs of getting things back on track. The only question is if this recent surge is a case of too little, too late.

With Thursday’s 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners, the Orioles were able to win their sixth game in a row, the 10th victory in their past 14 games. It has been a much-needed surge after a 15-32 start that had them buried at the bottom of the Major League standings with other bottom-feeders like the Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates and Colorado Rockies.

After winning 192 games over the previous two seasons, making the playoffs each time, that is not the sort of start anybody expected for a roster that was booming with young hitters. 

But a dismal offseason that saw their pitching staff get decimated, as well as some unexpectedly bad starts from a lot of those young hitters, rapidly took Baltimore from preseason World Series contender to bitter disappointment almost overnight. 

There is some recent precedent for teams to overcome this sort of start, and you do not have to go back any further than the 2024 New York Mets.