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Mike Bordick currently broadcasts games for MASN and on the Orioles Radio Network.

The Orioles were bad this year, but not the worst ever.

Considering the type of candidates the Orioles went after in 2011 — young, analytics-minded executives who have vast experience in the baseball world — here are a handful of people who fit that mold now.

Our columnist has a couple of suggestions for the struggling but well-paid Orioles slugger and first baseman

As the Orioles begin their search for the now-vacant job atop their baseball operations department, a familiar face will oversee the day-to-day baseball decisions — director of player development Brian Graham.

After seven years as an Orioles beat writer, Eduardo A. Encina says goodbye as he leaves The Sun.

When he arrived in August 2010, the Orioles were the worst team in baseball. As he leaves, they’re no better. Somewhere in between rests Buck Showalter’s legacy as Orioles manager, an 8 1/2-year term that roused the club from a 14-year losing skein unprecedented in franchise history.

Orioles manager Buck Showalter led the Orioles to success as part of a wave taking over the game that emphasize bullpen usage and defense. That the rest of the league caught up and passed them on that front doesn't take away from the success it brought.

As the Orioles and Showalter part ways at the end of a 115-loss season, players said the manager who oversaw that collapse was the same who led them to three playoff appearances in five years, for better or worse.

Dan Duquette won't be offered a new contract to return as Orioles executive vice president.

It's a rare manager to inspire tee shirts and garden gnomes, much less to arrive in town already made it in New York and on Seinfeld even. But that was Buck Showalter, and now Orioles fans are left to mourn his passing.

Buck Showalter is on the hook for dismal Orioles season that was result of years of poor long-range planning.

They might have been as common as an Orioles win this season, but at least we knew to treasure them.

A year-by-year look at Buck Showalter's career, from his start in the Yankees' organization to his eight seasons with the Orioles.

Breaking down the numbers on Chris Davis' awful 2018 season.

Orioles manager Buck Showalter cautions that Chris Davis' decline might not be reversible.

Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette said Monday that the team is "in the process of planning for the future" even as he awaits word on whether he will be offered a new contract.

The Orioles' season finale was full of emotion Sunday as Adam Jones and Buck Showalter had perhaps their final games in orange and black.

The Orioles announced a 78-date total of 1,564,192 fans at Camden Yards this year, the lowest in the ballpark's history and the team's lowest since 1978.

Players and pitchers likely to be back with the Orioles in 2019 fuel season-ending 4-0 win over the Houston Astros at Camden Yards in the final game of the season.

Adam Jones was on the field by himself to start the Orioles' final game of the season.

Remember when Brian West, Carl Runk and Wes Unseld were in the news?

The merciful end of the 2018 season has finally arrived for an Orioles team that might never live down what happened this year.

Whether it's a meaningless regular-season finale or a pressure packed playoff game, rookie right-hander Mike Boddicker came through for the 1983 Orioles.

The Orioles lost for the third time in two days after receiving a quality start from Yefry Ramírez in a 5-2 loss to the Houston Astros.

Orioles right-hander Miguel Castro's knee injury ends a season that had its challenges.

The Orioles suffered a late 4-3 loss to the Houston Astros in the first half of Saturday’s doubleheader at Camden Yards.

Orioles outfielder Adam Jones served the Baltimore community until the end of the season after extending his stay with the team by two months when he nixed a trade to the Phillies.

Orioles rookie David Hess ended his season with a seven-inning, one-run outing against the Astros.

The Orioles opened their final series of the season with a 2-1 loss to the Houston Astros.

Just a handful of Astros who won last year's World Series were with the team when their rebuild began, a signal to the Orioles and their fans that they might not see the current players around when the winning returns.

Orioles first baseman Chris Davis won't play in the final homestand, manager Buck Showalter said, reversing what he'd said Wednesday in Boston and solidifying Davis as having one of the worst seasons in baseball history.

Adam Jones named Most Valuable Oriole.

If this is the end of Adam Jones' time with the Orioles, he leaves a huge on- and off-field legacy in Baltimore.

Orioles rookie John Andreoli had to wait until the final inning Wednesday for his first Fenway Park hit, adding to a memorable first trip as a major leaguer to the park he visited countless times growing up.

Thursday's series opener between the Orioles and Astros was postponed by rain and will be made up as part of a single-admission doubleheader Saturday, Sept. 29.

Though his contract is set to expire in October, Orioles manager Buck Showalter is at peace with his uncertain future. "You know how good they’ve been to me," he said of the club he's managed for nine seasons. "I’m not ever going to forget that, regardless of what happens.”

Orioles third baseman Renato Núñez has not only performed well, but has improved since the All-Star break, giving the team hope for the future.

Trey Mancini drove in three runs, Adam Jones had three hits and the Orioles' stars helped them best a star-less Red Sox team, 10-3, Wednesday night at Fenway Park.

Despite expanded September rosters, the Orioles required Peterson to pitch Wednesday in their 19-3 loss to the Boston Red Sox.

Orioles reliever Ryan Meisinger had to start and allowed five runs while recording one out Wednesday.

Orioles first baseman Chris Davis sat for a third straight day Wednesday, but will play again this season, manager Buck Showalter said.

Speculation abounds that the Orioles will not bring Buck Showalter back for next season. That's very possible, but they better choose his replacement wisely and not settle for a lesser or cheaper option.

Hunter Harvey has tendinitis but no structural changes or damage to his surgically repaired right elbow, the Orioles found Monday.

A full day of rain in the forecast means the Orioles and Boston Red Sox will play a day-night doubleheader beginning at 1:05 p.m. Wednesday instead of trying to play Tuesday night.

Orioles rookie outfielder John Andreoli could play this week in his own backyard at Fenway Park as he looks to soak in everything he can in his first extended major league look.

Dylan Bundy, threw 90 pitches in three laborious innings and further stretched an Orioles pitching staff that despite roster expansion can barely cover the required innings on a given day.

Left-hander John Means was added from Triple-A Norfolk — or more aptly, Sarasota, Fla. — on Monday as the Orioles look to cover the remaining seven games.

While Mychal Givens has had his struggles, he’s now pitching his best in September as the season winds down.

The Orioles ended their season series at Yankee Stadium with a 5-4 record, the only AL park they will have a winning record at in 2018.