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The Orioles' Promising Future Meets Disappointing Reality

A Tale of Two Halves

The 2023 season for the Baltimore Orioles was supposed to be the perfect prologue to a new era of success. After a promising finish to 2022, the young core was finally here and showing that this Orioles team had perhaps the most promising future in all of baseball. They won 101 games, never once getting swept through the entire regular season. It was a remarkable turnaround for a franchise that had long been an afterthought.