At the beginning of this month in Kansas City, the Orioles coaching staff brought all the team’s infielders — Tim Beckham, Jonathan Villar, Renato Núñez, Breyvic Valera, and Jace Peterson — into manager Buck Showalter’s office and explained how September would go for them.
Perhaps no subset of the Orioles roster has been more unsettled on the position side than the infielders since the midseason trades of Manny Machado and Jonathan Schoop and the offseason departures of J.J. Hardy and Ryan Flaherty.