There were four months of bad baseball this season to prepare us all for the idea that the Orioles might have to trade a bunch of people at the trade deadline in order to blow up the team and maybe build for the future. On a rational level, I was prepared for this. There was no choice but to trade Jonathan Schoop. I still wasn’t ready for it and I’m still sad about it.
Schoop came to the Orioles from Curacao, one of the rare O’s international amateur signings from the last decade.