It’s a little disheartening to see how many highly touted pitching prospects the Baltimore Orioles have had in the last 20 or so years without any real success. The last homegrown talent the Orioles had was Mike Mussina, but you know how that ended, with him signing with the New York Yankees.
Let’s go through the names of some of the Orioles pitchers that were pitching with the team during the 14 consecutive losing seasons. We’ve got Jason Johnson, Jose Mercedes, Josh Towers, Sir Sidney Ponson, Daniel Cabrera, Bruce Chen, Erik Bedard, Jeremy Guthrie, Rocky Coppinger, Rodrigo Lopez, Brian Matusz, Brad Bergesen, and Adam Loewen.