When Steve Wilkerson went to the Arizona Fall League this time last year, he was coming off a breakout year at Double-A Bowie and trying to play himself into the major league roster conversation on a team without any standout candidates to fill the utility role he'd been groomed for.
That case never really got off the ground after a 50-game suspension in the offseason for violating the minor league drug policy with a positive test for an amphetamine took him out of the spring training mix, and even once he made it to the majors, oblique and hamstring injuries cut his time with the Orioles short.