The slim chance that the team goes on a run and returns to the playoff picture is overshadowed by a singular opportunity to prevent a repeat of the season-opening calamity that tanked 2025.

In this edition of Inside the Dugout, Jon Meoli discusses the Baltimore Orioles draft stories.

I don’t feel like much actually needs to change, other than luck, around Camden Yards. I just want to see what areas the Orioles decide to adjust, and this wasn’t it.

The complexion of the system has changed with the gaduation of homegrown stars to the big leagues and trades to supplement that group.

The timing of Sunday’s draft, a few weeks before the trade deadline, meant the Orioles had to execute the deal before the broader trade landscape and their role in it came into focus.

This year, Jon Meoli just dreads that the MLB trade deadline exists at all.

Beavers has been driving the ball all over and out of the park in Triple-A, a result of a tweak that seems to have been years in the making.

Gibson, a strikeout artist, is carving up Double-A just two years after signing as an undrafted free agent.

The offense that frustratingly has been nearly no-hit so often was good in June. Really good, in some ways.

The July 31 trade deadline is the point of no return when it comes to the 2025 season: either sell and wave the white flag, or stand pat and strive to pull off the unlikely.

Held the weekend before the MLB All-Star Game each year, the All-Star Futures Game is a showcase of some of the most talented players in the minors.

Rogers has regained a spot in the Orioles’ rotation and looked as close to the All-Star he was in 2021 as he has in years.

With Adley Rutschman and Maverick Handley hitting the injured list within the last week and the Orioles opting for journeymen deputies rather than Basallo, the 20-year-old backstop’s development has come into focus of late.

Tuesday marks a month since the day we can truly say the Orioles started to turn things around, perhaps for good — but not before sneaking in one more loss.

The July 31 deadline has become a de facto measuring stick for how much ground the Orioles can make up in the standings and how quickly they can do it.

There are seven names written in pen every night — Jackson Holliday, Gunnar Henderson, Adley Rutschman, Ryan O’Hearn, Colton Cowser, Jordan Westburg and Cedric Mullins.

We had good feelings about the Orioles as they began their series against the Athletics, but they’ve been teetering ever since.

After every win comes the moment when you check the standings and start doing the mental math of what it will take for this team to play meaningful baseball again.