The Orioles began their rebuild when they traded Manny Machado to the Dodgers in 2018 and they arrived at Petco Park on Monday atop the AL East
The Orioles shipping Manny Machado off to the Dodgers at the 2018 All-Star break was the start of Baltimore’s rebuild. They selected Adley Rutschman with the No. 1 overall pick the following summer. They grabbed Heston Kjerstad with the second overall pick the following year, Colton Cowser with the fifth overall pick in 2021 and Jackson Holliday with another No. 1 overall pick last year.
Yet the Orioles on Monday walked into Petco Park with the best record in the AL, a three-game lead over the Rays in the AL East and even bigger leads over the usual suspects in New York and Boston. Yeah. It’s a lot quicker than Machado thought that process would be as he left Baltimore five years ago.“It’s definitely fast,” Machado said Monday afternoon. “I’ve never seen a team rebuild that quickly. … This year they’ve shown that they could take the East, so it’s impressive to see that in such a short period of time what they are doing over there.
This year, they went 18-9 in April, have won at least 13 games every month this season and are 8-4 in August in stoking confidence throughout his old stomping grounds.“It takes me back to when I played there,” he said. “Winning baseball and obviously they brought back the culture. It’s been a big sports city for a long time, so to see them going clean house and rebuild in a short period of time to where they are today, it’s pretty impressive.
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