It’s early. That's what they'll tell you. Rookie manager. It’s still April. The people who get paid to make excuses for a horribly flawed fundamental baseball team will preach this like they believe it. But if they know baseball, then they know this franchise still suffers from low IQ rot, and it's as deeply interwoven into their fielding mindset and baseball understanding as ever. Because if you know even a little bit about baseball and you’ve watched Mike Elias rosters with any regularly since he took over the franchise, well, you’ve seen more Bad News Bears crap on a nightly basis than 200 Mr. Buttermakers. The 2026 Orioles picked right up where the June 2024-2025 Orioles left off in far too many ways. Sure, plenty of time is left to buck a bunch of lingering trends, and, yeah, the rest of the Al East looks meh at best. But systemic flaws are systemic flaws; everything is far from fine when this keeps happening year after year.…