Since taking over the reins in 2012 Dan Duquette has shown that he will take a chance on most anybody. The strategy coming from the Orioles front office appears to be to collect as many cheap lottery tickets as you can and hope one or two of them pay out big. This strategy has paid dividends over the past three years as players have come from relative obscurity to produce big for the Orioles.
In 2012, the big addition was Nate McLouth who joined the team after getting cut by the Pirates and signed to a minor league free agent contract in late May of that year by the Orioles.