The Orioles have now had two straight years of being buyers at the MLB trade deadline, and in both seasons Mike Elias has completed multiple deals to try to bolster the O’s pitching staff. Even after his 2023 acquisitions (Jack Flaherty and Shintaro Fujinami) fell short of the mark, Elias was undeterred in 2024, adding four veteran pitchers at the deadline.
One of those additions, Zach Eflin, was a huge success, and we’ll discuss him in a separate post later in this series. But for now let’s focus on the other three, who ranged from mostly useful to utterly disastrous.