As Raleigh stars for Seattle, Rutschman still trying to right himself for Orioles

This week’s series between the Orioles and Seattle features a switch-hitting superstar catcher emerging as a legitimate MVP candidate.

It also includes Adley Rutschman, whose three-hit effort in Tuesday’s 5-1 win is the latest data point of hope that a much-needed turnaround is finally coming. But we’ve been pointing to isolated outputs like this for a long while now.

Seeing what Cal Raleigh, 28, is doing for the Mariners — 23 home runs and a .999 on-base plus slugging percentage through June 3 — reminds of the value the 27-year-old Rutschman is supposed to bring to the Orioles and did for the first two calendar years of his career. While we enthusiastically linked Rutschman’s major league debut with Baltimore’s midseason ascent to contention in 2022, the club’s precipitous fall dating b