There are a few teams in Major League Baseball that are constantly questioned, and the Baltimore Orioles are one of them.
The Orioles found the blueprint to success with their young talent, but if the new ownership isn’t willing to give them the contracts they deserve, they shouldn’t expect to find too much success over the next decade.
For an Orioles team that’s good enough to compete in the American League East this season, it’s very questionable why the front office didn’t make the moves it had to make this winter.
Adding Charlie Morton, Tomoyuki Sugano, Tyler O’Neill, and others, there was a feeling that the Orioles needed to do more to compete with the top teams in the American League East.
Kerry Miller of Bleacher Report recently looked at trade candidates around Major League Baseball and linked the Orioles to a blockbuster deal for one. His deal would send Sandy Alcantara of the Miami Marlins to the Orioles.
“Zach Eflin, Tomoyuki Sugano and Charlie Morton will all be free agents this winter—if Morton even lasts that long in Baltimore while losing each of his five starts thus far—so the Orioles are definitely in the market for a multi-year solution to a rotation that is already struggling mightily.
“If the O’s continue to play sub-.500 ball and aren’t buyers, however, plenty of other teams figure to have a ton of interest in Alcantara’s services,” they wrote.
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The Orioles trading for Alcantara makes perfect sense, but they need to be smart in how they do it. While the right-hander doesn’t hit free agency until after the 2026 campaign, and has a team option in 2027, why give up on more of their top prospects if they don’t plan to pay him one day?
