The last time that Miguel Castro's baseball career made any sense, at least from a linear player development standpoint, it came at the same park he began his 2018 Orioles rotation audition at Friday — Dunedin Stadium.
Before he was anointed the Toronto Blue Jays' 20-year-old closer in 2015, before that experiment failed and saw him traded to the Colorado Rockies, and before the Orioles brought him in as a reclamation project last spring, there were two weeks spent with the High-A Dunedin Blue Jays.
It was the end of a breakout season, when Castro, then 19, pitched his way up two levels from short-season ball in barely over two months.