It was not a good year to be a rookie starter for the Orioles. As a unit, you were worth a collective 0.7 WAR. Your ERA was 6.50. You allowed 10.53 hits per nine innings. You walked one batter for every two you struck out (140 BB:258 K). And you definitely didn’t strike out many hitters, for that matter (258 in 324 IP, an unimpressive 7.17 K/9 rate).
Perhaps nowhere were the lost 2020 season’s effects on the Orioles more visible than when it came to the batch of pitching prospects who debuted in 2021 and struggled: Keegan Akin, Dean Kremer, Alex Wells, Mike Baumann, Bruce Zimmermann, and Zac Lowther.