The very moment that Matt Wieters first took the field for a game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, a rainbow appeared in the sky above the Warehouse. This seemed like it must have been an omen from the baseball gods. Wieters would save the franchise from the darkness, as was prophesied in the tomes of old.
Wieters came to us from Georgia Tech, the fifth overall pick in the 2007 draft. The hype was there from the beginning. Before his MLB debut, pretty much the entire prospect-industrial complex agreed that Wieters was the best prospect in all of baseball.