Hey, remember spring training? Seven months ago, as the Orioles gathered in Sarasota for the season to come, fans and media tried to puzzle out what the club’s Opening Day roster would look like. Plenty of spots were up for grabs, perhaps none more so than in the starting rotation, where veterans like Matt Harvey and Felix Hernandez were in camp on minor league deals, while fringy swingman types like Bruce Zimmermann and Jorge Lopez tried to make their case to start. Up until the final week of camp, there were about 50 possible permutations for how the five-man rotation would shake out.
Keegan Akin’s failure to develop added to the Orioles’ season-long pitching woes
