The 2019 Orioles season is such an un-fun disaster that even a roster move that could be enjoyed comes with one that must be suffered. So it is on Thursday afternoon, as the team announced that the struggling Dan Straily has been designated for assignment. However, because O’s fans can’t have nice things for long in 2019, bad news follows: John Means has been placed on the injured list, retroactive to June 17.
The Orioles announced the injury to Means as a left shoulder strain. Everything is terrible! Means, the O’s 11th round pick in the 2014 draft, ascended from barely even being in the fringes of the Orioles rotation conversation when spring training began to being the only good Orioles starting pitcher through late June.