The dream of a mostly homegrown Orioles starting rotation has been in Birdland since the days that Andy MacPhail proclaimed “grow the arms, buy the bats” and Dave Trembley said the cavalry was coming. For all the top pitching prospects who came through under MacPhail and later his successor Dan Duquette, it has never quite happened.
It’s been Mike Elias’s team for two-plus years now and we all must tell ourselves it will be different this time. The alternative is unpleasant. Having a prospect like Mike Baumann develop as hoped would be a big step towards things going in the way that O’s fans might hope.