By james art 
Baltimore Orioli saw that the years of hard work in the spells of Major Leise’s baseball are paid with a 101-bunny campaign in 2023 and a title in the American League Eastern Division.
In 2024, the team took a step back, winning 10 less matches from the previous year and ending as the second best team in the division, behind New York Yankees with three games. This still led to a playoff place, although they had to put up with one of the variety of Wild Card.
This extra -season, while the team made moves, they made a little bit to move the needle, remaining mostly stagnant, although there were no “real” ace, with many names to fulfill the role in the beginning of winter.
While Orioles remained the most stagnant, Blue Jays in Toronto have made many movements in this extra -season to improve themselves and their position in the division and may have done just that.
In fact, on Thursday, Blue Jays signed the starter-veteran Max Sherzer to round down a rotation, which may be the best unit for one five years in the American League East.
A unit, entitled by Kevin Gausman, is already rounded with Jose Berios, Chris Bassit, Bowden Francis and the aforementioned Shercer, five beginners who are able to give the team solid submission while publishing ERAs under 4,00.
Offensively, Jays of Blue added former candid Baltimore Anthony Santander to add even more power to a composition containing Vladimir Guerrero Jr. One of the better protective infections in MLB.
Bicheth is certainly faced with disadvantage in 2024, but his struggles are due to the most of the injuries, which also kept him up to 336 appearances on the slab. The short stop enters into a contractual year, along with Guerrero, and the team seems to be everything for this year.
Toronto’s out -of -season was a great contrast to what Mike Elias and the Orioli did, which is a lot of meaningful outside Charlie Morton.
Elias signed Tyler O’Neal and Gary Sanchez, but the only thing that these movements achieved was to let everyone ask, “Why?”
There is still time to turn things around, although at this point the extra -season will need trade to acquire a “real” ace. If this does not happen, the Baltimore playoffs can end earlier than by -A later.