The Orioles Are Proving Everyone Wrong (And It's Awesome) 

To be honest in 2022 the Orioles showed a lot of potential and were super fun to watch, I'm not surprised they're doing what they're doing in 2023. Too many people distracted by the mega contracts handed by the Phillies (my team btw), the Mets and so on.

Shout-out to Mike Elias and Sig Mejdal for the successful rebuild. This is an exciting team. Last year was so fun to watch, and this year has been even better

Lets Go! My birds are getting the recognition they deserve

An O's vid! Thanks a billion SportStorm! My boys are making me so proud!

As an orioles fan I'm happy we're good again

It's always satisfying seeing a rebuild come together, a bit more payroll and this team could be really scary in the upcoming years.

I love seeing Baltimore playing this good!!!! So damn good for baseball!

Mullins has been so good for us… hopefully this injury he suffered today doesn’t keep him out too long ☹️

We lost Mullins for a while, so I hope this lovely video still applies :/

They ended the 2022 season hot and have carried it into this one so far

We've come a long way since the 2016 wild card game

Happy to see the oreos doing so well. Not my team but I'm always rooting for them to do good.

Love the vid thanks for showing the O's some spotlight.

Been a long time coming. Sure we've had some unexpected runs in years past, but to watch this ball club grow into something special from basically the ground up is something special. Loving it right now

All in together now!! GO!!!! O'S!!!!!

Good video. Thank you for taking note of what the O's are doing (unlike a certtain so called "worldwide leader in sports"). A couple of other things to add: - Not long after his debut last year, Rutschman had a pretty bad stretch. I can't remember the exact numbers, but a good sized portion of the fan base was clamoring for him to go back to AAA. But the team's record was so bad at that point, it didn't hurt to leave him at the big league level and let him works things out (which he clearly did). Rodriguez is in a similar kind of rut at the moment, but with the team solidly in contention it makes more sense to let him straighten things out in Norfolk. - The O's have the 3rd (or 4th) best record in MLB, and their best pitcher (Means) hasn't thrown a single pitch this year. - The reason they could afford to move Lopez last year was the emergence of Batista. He became one of the most dominant closers in the league, and he's continuing to do so this year. - Despite the way the "experts" ranked the farm system for all those years, the core of this group (Mullins, Santander, Mountcastle, Hays, Means, Batista, Rodriguez) were all in the system before the tanking/rebuild began. - That isn't to say Elias doesn't deserve credit. He's had the Midas Touch when it comes to player acquisition. He got one of the pitchers you didn't mention (Kyle Bradish) in what has turned out to be a one sided trade for Dylan Bundy. He's found guys like Mateo, and made good, affordable FA signings like Gibson. And it seems like he's hit on just about all of his high round draft choices. From Rutschman and Henderson, to Westburg, Cowser, Kjerstad, Ortiz, Mayo, Norby, Holliday, etc - they've all performed remarkably well - which puts them in great position to get someone like Giolito at the deadline. The Orioles went to 6 world series between 1966 and 1983 (winning 3 of those). It's hard to believe they haven't returned to a single one in the last 40 years. But the pieces are in place to finally end that streak.

Proud of the O’s 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 Thanks for the Video .

Amazing upload and great information. Keep up the grind 💯

Great video as usual!

I’ve been an O’s fan since I can remember. Watching Jim Palmer pitch at Memorial Stadium, Earl Weaver and his antics, Cal Ripken Jr, Mike Mussina, and so on. But they haven’t been fun to watch lately until last year! I think every Baltimore fan felt stabbed in the heart when they traded Trey Mancini, but we still held onto hope and we finally had a winning season! 3 games back from a playoff spot was good for us. No big trades and acquisitions in the off season, so a lot of fans were concerned. Now it’s go time. These guys have gotten so much better this year and if they can keep this up, we might see the playoffs for the first time in almost a decade.

Go O's!!! Been a pleasant surprise this season, sweeping Toronto in Toronto, taking the series in New york I've been wearing my orioles gear super proudly this year! ⚾⚾⚾☀️

Used to go to a ton of orioles games used to take trips from jersey to go. It’s great seeing them be competitive again and they’re such a fun young team.

Happy to see the Orioles doing good!

First in the AL east now. I know it might not last but as an orioles fan, its nice to see. I've been waiting for all my life for them to be good

As a Mets fan I’ve been keeping up with them this season and they are so much to watch hope they keep it up

Oooo it’s cool to finally see a good orioles vid

🧡⚾️🖤 Orioles Magic!

been saying since he came adley has completely change the dynamic of the team, great bat and doing a hell of a job calling pitches

Loved this video!! Lets go o's!!!!!!

Thanks for the jinx. Cedric goes down just before this is posted.

Excellent video as always Man BTW, you think you could ever do a deep dive on the success the Tampa Bay Rays have had since 2008? In the last 15 years they've been one of the top 3 teams pound for pound .. All with either the lowest or at best, bottom 4 in payroll. Simply put, there has never been a franchise in the history of pro sports who has done so well with so little. Honestly, it's beyond belief. I think of you unpack it it would be one of , if not your highest viewed video.

Finally, the orioles are one of the most exciting teams in baseball, and the future is hopefully very bright!

Hopefully the teams pitching can improve in june. Watching game 3 of the orioles vs guardians was about as rough as a baseball game could be

As a Braves fan, they remind me a lot of us in 2018. The big this will be how well the front office does retaining their talent

It’s a tough road being an O’s fan. But I’m definitely starting to love this team

I know Adam Frazier isn’t the flashiest signing but he has been a huge upgrade from Odor. But yes they need to do more the compete and that means spending more money and or making trades with some risk

So glad the Os are finally doing good this year

Orioles for years went after free agents that never paid off. Getting your house in order starts in the front office. Getting a plan, sticking to the plan, letting good young talent develop is the way. Been a long time.

At the beginning of last year I was reminding myself that I may not see Adley in the bigs until next season. Then I was surprised. Now, I’m convinced the only people surprised by the Os just haven’t been watching them. As someone geographically compelled to watch them, for the past three or four years, I can’t blame y’all. I think the Jorge Lopez trade was read as the Os prolonging the rebuild. Instead it’s already paid off with Cano’s amazing start, and he’s one of three guys in that trade. Mike Elias is very good at what he does. Hopefully he’s here for more than one WS win. John needs to think about what his father stood for during the strike and pay these guys. Let’s👏Go👏Os👏.

I am 71 and have followed baseball since I was a kid. I am biased because I live in Baltimore.And I have my whole life.But for a Catcher,Adley Rutschman, Is the fastest dude I have ever seen

Let go orioles i been a orioles fan since the 90s we sufferd a lot happy that we are winners now

Baltimore has been such a fun team to watch

I saw the birds in person twice that year once in April and again in August. The team in August was a lot better by the eye test.

Can’t wait to see what Jackson Holliday can do--if he’s anything like his dad, Baltimore has some serious talent and a franchise cornerstone type player on the way.

Adley is a fkn G, I'm not much for omg prospects but I saw his numbers coming in as a catcher and was like uhhhh ohhhhhh

Love finally seeing a positive orioles video!!!!

Go Os! 🖤🧡🏆

Most had confidence in the team itself. Most had little confidence in the Starting Rotation, Mainly Gibson, Kremer, Bradish, Hall , Wells, and yes, Grayson. Know body could predict or knew how they would perform this season.

I wouldn’t say it’s too surprising. I mean the pitching has been better than expected for sure. But the two young teams I thought would have a huge leap this year were the orioles and Dbacks

he's the new buster posey!

Adley's impact since 2022 is surreal.

Losing Mullins for a few weeks due to a groin injury is gonna be difficult to replace. He's been arguably the most consistent and complete player so far this season. Hoping we see Cowser soon up in Baltimore to fill in until he comes back

I’m still skeptical, especially with the pitching staff having allowed more base hits, runs, and walks than in 2022, but I’m glad we’re showing we aren’t pushovers.

THE BIRD BATH IS FUN AF

Cant wait for Jackson to come up...

The main reasons they are improved is the unbalanced schedule. Not playing the AL. East 19 times each. Also they pushed out the outfield walls

You should do a video for the dbacks as well

As a blue jays fan, props to the o’s

Dude I feel like your trying to jinx my boys in orange. I’m just praying we don’t blow it. I’d be happy with just a playoff berth at this point

This year so many teams that were mediocre or terrible a few year ago are near top in their division. I want to see some underdogs make it to the World Series this year. I kind of want the Orioles vs. Brewers

Now they are World Series favorites by adding the goat Aaron Hicks

can you make a video about the mighty 2023 oaklad athletics

Let’s Go O’s ! West Baltimore born and raised & I have been an O’s fan since about 1977 😳 Ummmm ok and I am telling my age. But O’s Nation Anyhow ! ✌🏾

Great vid! But *dean kremer lol LETS GO OSSSS

shout out to the great city of buffalo being shown at the 1:21 mark. GO BILLS

Adley is taking names and kicking ass

as a dodger fan the orioles are underrated, theres a reason their farm system is goated whenever i have an OP rtts player on the show they always eventually get traded to an O’s farm team, im pretty sure even my brother got his rtts player traded to an O’s farm team

Orioles magic❤

I've always said about the Royals during their pennant runs: if we ain't losing, we ain't gonna win..

Imagine, could you imagine where we would be? In late mid-september, the Orioles about to win the American League East...

Been said don't sleep on Baltimore

can we get a vid on the rebuilding nats

The O's are a FUN TEAM TO WATCH

Looking stong now in the second half of the season too. Also the Os haven't been sweept since Rutchman came up either there has to be something to that right?

Where not just a better team we are the team lets go O's

Orioles are really good. To be a title contender they need to go trade for a good vetran pitcher. Means this season cant be relyed upon unfortunately. Orioles should take a few young prospects like DL Hall and Stowers and trade for another starting pitcher. Rodriguez has potential but isnt ready to be a playoff starting pitcher. In playoffs Rodriguez should be coming out of bullpen for now

2:42 That should be Dean Kremer, not Drew Kremer. Overall, it's a great video. Orioles have been scuffing lately and Mullins just got hurt.

Let’s go O’s

Yea, I'm 100% sure the owner will muck this up. Sadly, until there is new owners my O's will remain a middling or worse team. However, I am enjoying the team's success so far this year and I hope it continues.

I’ll caveat this with I’m a Baltimore fans so everything I say is from cautiousness having fallen for this in the past and noticing the same trend drilling into their data. Have another look at their schedule. early series include: -Athletics - Nats - white/Red Sox - Detroit - royals literally last place teams with losing records, mostly. Fun game: name a team they beat in a series that didn’t have a losing record in the first 1/3 of the season? (~40 games bc after that historically teams can start to rack up repeat wins for a glory win rate eg Baltimore has played the two worst teams in baseball in the royals and A’s double digit times already) It’s tough to find bc it’s so rare but the Rays and Rangers early. The former with a net differential of 0 over 3 games. The latter being their first big series triumph but they’d avenge the series loss after the teams settled in blasting the orioles with a differential of +11. Then the pirates with a differential of a single run. Split with the angels differential of +1. Blue jays worth noting right outside the 1/3 mark despite being bottom of the table due to it being a sweep which is the only the 3rd time. Let that sink in - they have a 63% win rate & only swept 3 teams and they were bad (+Detroit). Still need to check today if they ended up sweeping Kansas City as that might qualify but I’ll exclude today. Compare that to say Atlanta 61% win rate and have swept double that amount (also excluding today as braves were on pace to sweep the nats but need to go check so excluding to be apples to apples). Lot lord I could type for now, I’ll happily be proven wrong but I think you’re missing some of the nuance that has them with such a pretty record. Maybe I’m a broken man though overtaken by cynicism haha who knows

Oh yeah and by the way Jackson Holliday is tearing up high a at 19 years old. Hopefully they keep their young stars!

To be honest after last season I kinda saw this coming

"including Drew Kremer" lmao

Go Orioles. World Series Champions 2023

2:41 it's Dean Kremer, not Drew

I think the O's will spend big on a pitcher this offseason maybe someone like Julio Urias or something

Adley is our golden child.

I heard they started training with a new nano ball pitching machine to train batters eye

I’m watching a video that’s positive about my beloved Orioles, and am surprised no one picked up on this. His name is DEAN Kremer. Not drew.

2:43 *Dean

IF WE ONLY HAD AN OWNER WHO SPENT A LITTLE MONEY. WE WOULD BE AMAZING!

this is only a surprise to anyone that wasn't watching the '22 orioles lmao

40-man roster, more then enough room for the prospects. They'll figure it out.

Should be highlighting HAY's over Mullins. Not that Mullins is not having a good yr because he's having a great yr, until injury. But, Hay's has had a 300 plus avg from the beginning of the season. Hey's is crushing the ball now.

There are rumors about Verlander coming to Baltimore. He makes $42M.

Jorge Mateo has really been great

As a jays fan, 😢

Nice piece. I'm excited. Personally, I consider an earlier start to the Orioles' turnaround -- I believe it started on 8-25-2021 at Camden Yards. The O's rolled into that game with an 18-game losing streak and the red hot Shohei Ohtani was the Angels starting pitcher. This was Ohtani's first time playing at Camden Yard. His very first pitch of the game resulted in a Mullins HR and the O's went on to complete a dramatic victory, thus breaking the potential record-setting losing streak. The atmosphere at the stadium was electric. I believe this game is what put everything in motion for the Orioles to where they are now at the top of the AL in July 2023 😎 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LS7DiFSHuUc.html

3 out of 4 lost and Grayson sent down and hope Mullins injury isn't major. I hope this ain't the start of a bad slump

You can really tell when someone hasn't watched baseball more than a season