The 2023 team gave me my first genuine hope that the Orioles would win a World Series in my lifetime.
No matter how much time passes I will always smile when I think about that squad.
Mark Reynolds on the fans in Baltimore:
"Me and [JJ Hardy] lived there, and we would walk to the field all the time, and people were just like, goodluck tonight... I could walk around Cleveland or New York... Colorado, no one knows anything like they don't know who you are unless you're in uniform but in Baltimore people really knew and cared."
AJ Dybantsa is already talking about going to DC 😳😳
"I knew I was going to DC, John Wall looked at me... You know how many people on Twitter were calling the Wizards"
Brady Anderson got Trey Mancini back into baseball, now they reunite again with the Angels:
"He's the one who got me back into the game in the first place. He texted me 2 summers ago when I wasn't playing in 2024... I was just playing tennis and pickleball twice a day and Brady texted me and basically told me he thinks I need to give it another shot... I went out with him a few months later and that's what got me back into the game"
The best part about Trae being traded to Washington is there really hasn't been one day where it's felt like he doesn't want to be here. All in from the start