Brandon Young, 26, was the Orioles’ minor league pitcher of the year after finishing the season with a 3.57 ERA in 27 games (24 starts) while averaging 10.7 strikeouts per nine innings.

Cowser finished his rookie season hitting .242 with a .768 on-base-plus-slugging percentage and 24 home runs.

“We’ve been talking to a lot of people,” Elias said in a Zoom press conference Friday. “I think we have a clear idea of the types of player profiles we are seeking."

Shortstop Gunnar Henderson and utilityman Jordan Westburg were finalists at their positions in the American League but did not win.

The Orioles are home as the Guardians, Yankees, Mets and Dodgers play for the chance to advance to the World Series. What do those teams do that the Orioles didn’t?

If the Orioles decide to stick with the same array of coaching roles, they already have four spots to fill this offseason.

Who are the Savannah Bananas? Think the Harlem Globetrotters, just on a baseball field.

“It’s been a tough night,” executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias said Thursday. “Today is a tough day. This is all very raw, very fresh.”

Here are the impending free agents, players with team options and the players in arbitration.

The Orioles have made the playoffs two straight years, but they have lost five straight postseason games in that time.

Burnes did exactly what the Orioles hoped he would when they traded for him six months ago. Except it may have been for nothing.

“You look at it as an opportunity,” Eflin said. “We have an opportunity to right the ship tomorrow and we are going to show up prepared and ready to go.”

Cowser went to see the show on Sept. 23 during the Orioles’ off day in New York prior to what would be a pivotal Yankees series. The next day, the Orioles claimed their playoff spot.

Ripken, a Hall of Famer who played all 21 of his major league seasons with the Orioles, purchased the Utica Blue Sox in 2001 and moved them to Aberdeen, his hometown.

Albert Suárez is not on the roster for the wild card, despite pitching to a 3.70 ERA this season.

“We were kind of hit by a truck in the postseason,” Ryan O’Hearn said of the team’s loss in the American League Division Series last season.

The Orioles won four of six games against Kansas City in April, but a lot has changed since then.

Ahead of the wild-card round, our Orioles experts weigh in on important questions.

The game might foreshadow the matchup of star pitchers for Game 1 of the American League Division Series, if the Orioles get that far.

The Orioles’ magic number to clinch the top wild card seed — and therefore home-field advantage for the best-of-three series — drops to one.