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Baltimore Orioles 2025 Season Preview
The Baltimore Orioles have put the days of being a doormat long ago in the rear-view mirror. In MLB news, this is a team that was built from scratch and now has the foundation to be a postseason threat and possible contender to win it all. Amazing what can happen when teams draft well and stick to a plan after years of suffering defeat after defeat.
2025 Baltimore Orioles Win Total Projection & World Series Odds
The Orioles’ win total for 2025 has been projected at 87½ games. This is a team that did not win that many games in a season from 2017-21. Now, it has won 192 games over the last two seasons. The number splits the Red Sox and Yankees, who are tabbed at 86½ wins and 88½ on the win total projection by BetUS for MLB teams in the AL East.
When it comes to a World Series futures odds look, the O’s are set at +1600, once against splitting the Bronx Bombers and BoSox. It suggests MLB experts picks believe the AL East will be a tight, three-team race.
2025 Baltimore Orioles Projected Starting Lineup
Lineup, per MLB.com
- Gunnar Henderson, SS
- Jordan Westburg, 3B
- Adley Rutschman, C
- Colton Cowser, RF
- Tyler O’Neill, LF
- Ryan O’Hearn, DH
- Ryan Mountcastle, 1B
- Jackson Holliday, 2B
- Cedric Mullins, CF
Lineup Strengths and Weaknesses
This is a lineup that those who make MLB picks will love. It is young yet it already has enough experience to thrive in the big leagues. Adley Rutschman is one of the best catchers in the game and delivered a combined 40 home runs and doubles last year at 26.
Gunnar Henderson won’t be 24 until late June and 37 home runs and 92 RBI last year. That’s great production from a shortstop. This franchise has a history with SS if you remember Cal Ripken Jr. from years past. When it comes to MLB predictions, no one will be surprised if Henderson goes for 40 or more dingers.
The Orioles had nine players in double figures last year in homers. They hit 235 as a team. But that comes with a caveat as the leader with 44 Anthony Santander is now a Toronto Blue Jay, which means he is an opponent in the AL East.
Colton Cowser moves from left to right field with Tyler O’Neill an addition from the Red Sox in left. O’Neill hit 31 homers last season with Boston but he had the friendly Green Monster to go over for many of them.
One player to keep a close eye on is second baseman Jackson Holliday. He has been heralded since being a prep player and the Orioles expect big things from him. However, last year showed reason for pause: a .189 batting average in 190 at-bats. Unless his bat warms, expect pitchers to take advantage of MLB matchups against Holliday until he proves he can hit in the bigs.
This team has the hitting power to figure into MLB playoff predictions and wagers. Will 2025 be the season the Orioles make it to the World Series or will it be another valuable year of experience gained for a talented and youthful lineup? Time will tell.
Baltimore Orioles Projected Starting Rotation
1. Zach Eflin, RHP
2. Charlie Morton, RHP
3. Dean Kremer, RHP
4. Tomoyuki Sugano, RHP
5. Cade Povich, LHP
Eflin is expected to be the ace of the staff. There have to be concerns since he had shoulder inflammation in spring training. Morton is the antithesis of this team’s lineup. He is a 41-year-old with 17 years’ experience. You could combine any number of players in the starting lineup and would not come up with that much experience.
Losing Corbin Burnes and his 15 wins to the Diamondbacks hurts, As does Grayson Rodriguez having battle MLB injuries because of triceps soreness and elbow discomfort.
The starting rotation will have to answer a lot of questions for the O’s to continue to grow.
Projected Bullpen
Per MLB.com: RHP Félix Bautista (closer), LHP Keegan Akin, RHP Yennier Cano, RHP Seranthony Domínguez, LHP Cionel Pérez, LHP Gregory Soto, RHP Albert Suárez, RHP Bryan Baker
Speaking of MLB injuries, Baltimore is counting on Bautista to return to form after missing last season. There are a lot of Orioles fans who will be glad the erratic Craig Kimbrel is no longer with the team and can’t blow more saves. Every time he took the mound it was time to hold your breath for fans and the front office because you never knew what you would get.
Dominguez did have 10 saves after being landed from Philadelphia and following Kimbrel’s flops.
Probably don’t want to make any MLB baseball parlay picks on Baltimore’s win total and World Series hopes until you get an idea how the futures market shifts depending on pitching performance.
Baltimore Orioles Schedule and Key Matchups
The schedule should tell a tale quickly as the Orioles play nine games against AL East foes in the first month of the season. To be considered a serious threat to win the division, they will have to show an ability to beat these teams. Consistently.
Much of May is spent against Central Division squads from both leagues. Again, these will be tests of the pitching staff.
Talk about a schedule quirk, in August the Orioles will play 13 straight games against only two teams. They will play the Astros seven times and the Red Sox in six games. Both teams can create problems for opponents so this could be a key stretch in the second half of the season.
September features three home games with the Orioles and a home-and-away series with the Yankees that entails seven games. Will the three-game series in the Bronx at the end of the year determine the fate of whether MLB playoff predictions and MLB expert picks were correct?
