Throughout what’s now been parts of three seasons as a big league starting pitcher, Orioles left-hander John Means has established a pretty firm baseline of what to expect from his starts.
He’s going to throw strikes, try to mix his pitches, and get his team into the middle innings with a chance to win almost every time out there.
What his last four starts of 2020 and the first five starts of this year have done, with Sunday’s cruise through a red-hot Oakland Athletics lineup included, is raise the question of just how good he can be.