If so, you weren’t alone. For over a month after he arrived in Baltimore in early May, Armstrong seemed to be automatic in the Orioles bullpen. He struck guys out at a decent rate, got some holds, and all in all looked like perhaps like another Darren O’Day — some team’s cast-off that found a home in Charm City.
Well...water tends to find its level, and given 162 games’ worth of time, it certainly will do so. Armstrong came back to earth, the numbers began to swell, and by year’s end he was just another average arm in a below-average bullpen.