As a young man, I was not fortunate enough to grow up with a fondness for Orioles starting pitching. As an adult, I have not been fortunate to grow up with a fondness for Orioles starting pitching.
Time is a flat circle, folks.
When the Orioles drafted Kevin Gausman, a fellow Coloradoan who was the talk of high school baseball in the state when we were both seniors in high school, I was thrilled. I’d seen enough and heard enough to know that he was a power pitcher that resembled the hope the Orioles had been searching for.