Last season, the Orioles were conservative at the trade deadline, and with a 65-41 record at the time, perhaps they should have gone bigger. (Not, like, in height, because their two main pickups, Jack Flaherty and Shintaro Fujinami, are 6’4” and 6’6.” But neither pitched well for the Orioles, and we should probably pass over their time in Baltimore without further comment.)
This season, with seven pitchers on the injured list and several others on the 40-man looking a little shady (Craig Kimbrel, Dillon Tate, Bryan Baker, Keegan Akin, we’re looking at you), the Orioles needed pitching reinforcements badly.