It is a key question both in looking back at the Orioles’ 2024 season and ahead to what they hope is another good year for 2025.
What will it take to get Adley Rutschman’s bat going again?
Was he hurt when he slumped for much of the second-half?
“There is not an injury that I would speak to of any nature,” Mike Elias said during the season-ending press conference. The Orioles keep indicating that while Rutschman may have had the usual bumps and bruises, no injury was the main cause for his poor late-year stats.
Unless and until they tell us something different, that is what we have to go on here.