Westburg played steady defense, took on a different role than he’d ever taken before and produced enough at the plate to justify his role.

The Rangers' victory serves as validation of the Orioles' belief that they need to be the best team at identifying and developing talent internally to keep up with teams who spend more.

Executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias didn’t hand out anything longer than a one-year deal, but a few players signed over the winter played key roles during Baltimore’s push toward its first American League East championship since 2014.

As baseball’s offseason approaches, Elias could use the glut of prospects in Baltimore’s top-ranked farm system to supplement a team that won 101 games. Here's how he did making trades to shape this year's Orioles.

Chris Holt removing major league responsibilities from his plate will allow further organizational alignment and likely allow him to split his time between Baltimore and the club’s affiliates.

For all of the top Orioles hitters, here’s a facet of the game that they did better than all of their teammates this year.

At some point — quite possibly this exact one the Orioles are in — trading for other clubs’ prospects with the idea that they might be contributors down the line simply stops feeling appropriate.

The Orioles have a promising rotation, but you can never have enough pitching.

The core of the Orioles will likely remain in place, but Mike Elias and his staff have several major decisions to make.

No one is going to look at what the Orioles accomplished this year and decide the template that helped them get here is broken, least of all Mike Elias, Sig Mejdal or Eve Rosenbaum.

Only 10 MLB teams have ever recovered from losing the first two games of a five game series, but the Orioles have shown resiliency this year.

The Orioles’ plans have worked out so often this year. They didn’t in several ways on Sunday.

On Sunday, manager Brandon Hyde said it was a missed hit-and-run signal.

The starting pitchers will have an outsize role in the team’s fate this postseason, but the ramifications will extend far beyond that.

They were there for each other after each of the hundreds of losses the Orioles endured before things got good, mourned friends lost too soon, and shared life’s most special moments together.

No pitcher besides John Means has been a part of the Orioles organization longer than Hall. But after a frustrating year, the postseason may end up being the time he steps into a crucial role.

The Tides won the International League championship and the Triple-A National Championship, and they did so with a talented lineup full of once and current top-10 prospects in the organization.

Two weeks into the season, the Rays were an astonishing 13-0. They had a six-game lead over the Orioles.

Bradish lowered his ERA to 2.86 — the lowest by an Orioles pitcher with at least 150 innings in a season since Mike Mussina’s 2.54 in 1992 — in an eight-inning, 1-0 win over the Nationals on Tuesday.