Thought about making a new thread for this, but decided to bump this one.
The O's were the most popular AL East winner, AL pennant winner, and AL World Series winner in the Fangraphs writers poll. They were the only AL team that all 25 voters picked to make the playoffs. Some of the Fangraphs models may hate the O's but it doesn't seem like their human writers do.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/fangraphs-2024-staff-predictions/