For the rest of 2024, Camden Chat staff will be profiling assorted free agents, trade targets, and other potential offseason moves that could address needs for next year’s roster.
Three eras of the Orioles ago, the team had a choice to make about whether to keep its incumbent first basemen/designated hitters or whether to roll the dice on prospects in hopes that they could provide cheaper but acceptable production at the position. Chris Davis got mega bucks, Mark Trumbo got big bucks, and Christian Walker, by then a 25-year-old with fine but absolutely unremarkable Triple-A numbers, got put on waivers.