There are 41 games left to play in the 2026 Orioles season and although they continue to flirt with the fringes of the wild card race, the strong probability is that they are not going to make it into the postseason. It is going to have to be next year’s O’s in whom we pin our hopes of seeing a good team emerge again. We can be pretty sure that Mike Elias was already thinking about this when he made the trades that he made going into last week’s trade deadline.

There are a couple of assumptions here before I can even start to think about it all. One is that Mike Elias will stay in place as the president of baseball operations of the Orioles…

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