This article is part of the Know Your Orioles 40-man series, which features an article about each player currently on the Orioles roster. There will be one every weekday until we run out of players.
The emergence of John Means in recent years has been one of the few pleasant surprises of the Orioles’ lengthy rebuild process. By this point, Means’s story is well-known around Baltimore. He was an 11th-round pick back in 2014, steadily worked his way through the minors, at one point made a LinkedIn profile when his big league dreams looked bleak, and has since turned into a viable, long-term starting pitcher.