Ty Wigginton’s name is chiseled in the stone of Orioles history due to his All-Star selection in 2010. He was the team’s lone representative at that season’s Midsummer Classic despite boasting a meager .768 OPS at the unofficial halfway point. His trip to Anaheim that year was a byproduct of MLB’s rule that every team sends a player to the All-Star Game, no matter how poor the options may be. Wigginton would finish the season as the Orioles’ 11th-most valuable player (1.1 bWAR). Not exactly All Star quality.
Brandon Hyde’s 2021 Orioles might finish with a worse record than the 66-96 mark that Dave Trembley’s squad put together in 2010, but they shouldn’t encounter similar trouble when it comes to finding a worthy player to send out to Denver next month.