The Baltimore Orioles, beset for years by dysfunction, are now in a state of confusion.



Uncertainty is seeping into every leadership position, from the dugout to the front office to the owner’s box. The outcome of a long-simmering dispute with the neighboring Nationals is all but certain to impact the team’s finances, and even the number of years the club will remain tenants at venerable Camden Yards is in question.



As the Orioles barrel toward their worst season in franchise history, they need to decide more than just the futures of manager Buck Showalter and lead baseball executive Dan Duquette.



Major League Baseball wants to know who in the Orioles’ ownership group is running the club, and how the team plans to operate in the future, according to major-league sources.



League officials are not pushing the Orioles for an answer, knowing that owner Peter Angelos, 89, is in failing health and that his sons, John and Louis, seemingly...