Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter in the postgame news conference Saturday night following a 12-2 loss to the Houston Astros. (Video by Karl Merton Ferron)
If you want to gauge the stability of the Orioles, let alone any other baseball team at a given point in time, look at their transaction list and count the clusters of pitching moves they make to cope with the requirements of day-to-day baseball.
The Orioles are in one of those heavy stretches now, optioning right-hander Odrisamer Despaigne to Triple-A Norfolk roughly eight hours after he was recalled, and immediately after he served his purpose.