With all of the starting pitching injuries that the Orioles have suffered this season, the team enters the days before this year’s trade deadline with a real need for improvement in the rotation. Much as it did a year ago, it seems like they must get a starting pitcher before the deadline. One recent rumor offers a possibility, as Bruce Levine of Chicago’s 670 The Score reported on the O’s having shown interest in Cubs starter Jameson Taillon. The Yankees and Red Sox are also interested, he said.
Taillon is a player whose name I will always remember because 14 years ago, the Pirates drafted him one spot ahead of the Orioles, who went on to choose Manny Machado.