The 2014 Orioles team was full of special Orioles. Steve Pearce, one of the breakout players despite being DFA'd mid-season, was surely one of the most unexpectedly special O's. As his career moves on elsewhere, we give him the Birdland salute.
At last week's press conference that officially announced the return of Chris Davis to the Orioles, Davis spoke with some pride of having been on a team full of guys who had been traded or passed over. There have been a number of players on the successful Orioles teams of recent years who fit into that misfit underdog narrative. Few embody that concept quite like Steve Pearce, the unlikely breakout player of the 2014 AL East champion O's. Pearce's…
