Here we are at the outset of a new calendar year — also approximately halfway through the offseason — and the MLB Hot Stove landscape is desolate once again. And that means things are especially quiet for a team like the Orioles, who seem to be stuck in rebuild purgatory for the foreseeable future.
It makes you long for a winter like years past, when the Orioles were in hyperdrive mode, relatively speaking. Think back to the 2003-2004 offseason, when the Birds signed Miguel Tejada, Javy Lopez and Rafael Palmeiro. Remember early February 2008, when the club sent Erik Bedard to Seattle and got Adam Jones and others in return?