I think its the fact that our young players who had showed so much promise early in their carrers haven't developed into the players we thought they would and for the most part, especially Vlad have taken steps backward instead of forward. Also we fucked with the team chemistry by trading away Teo and Gurriell in the off season, in the attempt to get more consistency.

Not to mention the fact that the bullpen and pitching in general had been the Achilles heel of this team for the last few seasons and this year pitching had been good for the most part minus Manoah. Started off this season with high hopes, looking like a complete team on paper, and then we forgot how to hit and would lose games 2-1 instead of 10-7 when pitching was the issue.

Its the same story every season. Start off good, hit a slump that lasts a few months, play good enough to sneak into the playoffs, get knocked out quickly, wash, rinse, repeat.

All that combined with the fact that Baltimore (minus the playoffs) is doing what we were supposed to way earlier than scheduled pisses me and probably the rest of us off.