After being swept by the Minnesota Twins in a doubleheader Wednesday, the Orioles (15-26) are a season-low 11 games under .500 and sporting the worst run differential in the American League at minus-70. It’s a disastrous start for a team that added seven MLB free agents for a combined $105.25 million last winter to contend for a World Series title.

The Orioles are down to nine players on the injured list, including outfielder Colton Cowser and pitchers Kyle Bradish, Grayson Rodriguez, Albert Suárez and Tyler Wells on the 60-day. This is the healthiest they’ve looked in a long time.

The Baltimore batter tossed his bat gently up in the air and knocked it to the ground, then followed by spiking his helment more hardly into the grass. Hoye signaled to Laureano the ejection and the outfielder remarked a few choice words, took a couple of steps toward the umpire and pointed in his face before walking off.

With Urias coming back up, it will be outfielder Dylan Carlson who the team is sending to the minors to make space for him. The 30-year-old infielder has been playing quite well this campaign when healthy, slashing .292/.354/.403 with two home runs and nine RBI in 22 games.

They're even more desperate now, and that desperation will put even more on Holliday's shoulders. This is partly due to the obvious: Westburg's absence removes a big bat from the Orioles lineup, and Holliday needs to help pick up that slack. But it also turns up the heat from a roster construction standpoint.

Among teams expected to contend this year, there may be no fanbase more down on its team right now than the Baltimore Orioles fanbase. You can understand why. As has been well documented, the Orioles

Confidence in the Baltimore Orioles seems to be at an all-time low within the fan base and around the baseball world. It is hard to blame anyone who has thrown