The Baltimore Orioles are off to a depressing 14-24 begin in 2025. The Orioles have the fourth-worst file in all of baseball and the second-worst mark within the American League, forward of solely the moribund Chicago White Sox. After simply 38 video games, Baltimore is already 7.5 video games behind the first-place New York Yankees within the AL East. But regardless of the grim actuality of the Orioles’ early season gap, GM Mike Elias believes the workforce can nonetheless make the playoffs.
That religion, or maybe delusion, goes a great distance towards explaining Elias’ unwavering assist for supervisor Brandon Hyde who’s absolutely assured in his job safety because the Orioles’ skipper no matter his on-field outcomes this season.
“Mike [Elias] has been extremely respectful for me. He’s been extremely supportive in addition to everybody else within the entrance workplace, possession,” Hyde defined, per The Baltimore Solar’s Matt Weyrich on X.
Can Brandon Hyde pull the Orioles out of their 2025 tailspin?
Hyde took over because the Orioles’ supervisor in 2019. The workforce missed the playoffs in his first 4 seasons on the helm however Baltimore improved over Hyde’s final three seasons in cost, making the playoffs in 2023 and 2024. Nevertheless, he has but to win a postseason sequence, or perhaps a postseason recreation because the Orioles have been swept within the playoffs every of the final two years.
Actually, Baltimore hasn’t received a playoff sequence since 2014 when Buck Showalter was supervisor.
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Sure, Hyde did win Supervisor of the 12 months in 2023 when the Orioles received 101 video games. However the workforce was swept within the ALDS by the Rangers that season. Final yr the Royals made fast work of Baltimore within the Wild Card spherical.
Regardless of an absence of postseason success and a brutal begin in 2025, which earned the Orioles an early-season “F” grade from ESPN, Elias has a borderline perplexing quantity of confidence in Hyde.
To be honest, the Orioles have suffered fairly a couple of accidents this season as Grayson Rodriquez and Kyle Bradish have but to make their season debuts and Zach Eflin frolicked on the IL. Moreover, Tyler O’Neill, Jordan Wesburg and Colton Cowser have all landed on the injured record.
Maybe the Orioles can return to well being and make a run, justifying Elias’ religion in Hyde. However given the sheer amount and extent of the accidents, a sudden bounce again is unlikely. And because the Orioles sink additional out of rivalry whereas they await reinforcements, the much less doubtless a second-half turnaround turns into.
Nonetheless, Hyde’s managed the workforce to a few straight profitable campaigns so perhaps he deserves the unconditional assist he’s receiving from his GM in addition to the good thing about the doubt from followers.