2022 Baltimore Orioles season

The 2022 Baltimore Orioles season was the 122nd season in Baltimore Orioles franchise history, the 69th in Baltimore, and the 31st at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. They finished fourth in the AL East with an 83–79 record, but missed the playoffs for the sixth straight year.

This season represented a tremendous breakthrough for the franchise. After losing 100 games in three of the last four seasons (Including two 110 loss seasons in 2018 and in the previous season), the Orioles pieced together their best single season turnaround in decades, winning 31 more games than in their previous season and represented the team’s first winning campaign since 2016.

Their 31 game improvement is their largest in a single season since 1989, where they made a 33 game improvement from their 54–107 record in 1988. Coincidentally both improvements came the year after seasons that involved losing streaks of 19 or more losses.

Lockout
The expiration of the league's collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the Major League Baseball Players Association occurred on December 1, 2021 with no new agreement in place. As a result, the team owners voted unanimously to lockout the players stopping all free agency and trades.

The parties came to an agreement on a new CBA on March 10, 2022. The season was delayed to begin on April 7, 2022, a week later than the original start time.

Rule changes
Pursuant to the new CBA, several new rules were instituted for the 2022 season. The National League will adopt the designated hitter full-time, a draft lottery will be implemented, the postseason will expand from ten teams to twelve, and advertising patches will appear on player uniforms and helmets for the first time.

Orioles team leaders
Updated through games of October 5.

† Minimum 3.1 plate appearances per team games played

AVG qualified batters: Hays, Mateo, Mountcastle, Mullins, Santander

Minimum 1 inning pitched per team games played

ERA & WHIP qualified pitchers: Lyles

Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases; AVG = Batting average; SLG = Slugging average Source:

Pitching
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; SO = Strikeouts Source: