The Baltimore Orioles organization will change hands this season after three decades under the same ownership.
On Jan. 30, Puck News reported that the Angelos family will be selling the club to a group led by a Baltimore-native billionaire, David Rubenstein. The sale was unanimously approved on the afternoon of March 27, just hours before Opening Day.
Since the initial announcement of the sale, the Orioles have gotten better. They dished the sixth and seventh-best prospects in their organization to the Brewers for Cy Young award winner and definite ace, Corbin Burnes.
It’s true — the Orioles are leaving the Boston Red Sox in the dust.
John Angelos was notoriously miserly during his tenure as the owner in Baltimore. Upon the approval of Rubenstein’s deal, he became the primary decision-maker and “control person” for the team.
That doesn’t bode well for the Red Sox in the current state of John Henry and Tom Werner’s budget plan.
If the Orioles are ever going to leap to try and win themselves a World Series, the time is now. Their farm system is flooded with young talent after years of poor performance in the American League East. Adley Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson have already made their impact in the majors and they show no signs of slowing down. Jackson Holliday and Grayson Rodriguez have great careers ahead of them and their moments in the big-league sun are surely coming soon.
