Good Morning Birdland!
This has been the Orioles’ busiest offseason in quite some time, and certainly their most active with Mike Elias at the helm. The team’s latest move was the addition of veteran reliever Andrew Kittredge on a one-year, $9 million deal, a transaction that was reported late on Thursday night. But it seems that the Kittredge addition may have actually been a Plan B.
According to a report from FanSided’s Robert Murray, the Orioles had agreed to a three-year, $40-million contract with 32-year-old reliever Jeff Hoffman earlier in the week. That would have been a huge upgrade to an Orioles bullpen with some question marks.