The MLB trade deadline has come and gone, and it’s time for Birdland to meet the newest member of the Orioles’ starting rotation, 27-year-old right-hander Jack Flaherty. Today, he’ll get the game ball in a rare 3:07 pm day game. And he’ll have the none-too-enviable task of facing Toronto’s Kevin Gausman, one of the starters in the conversation for AL Cy Young this year.
Drafted 34th overall by St. Louis in 2014, Flaherty emerged on the scene in 2018, going 8-9 with a 3.34 ERA in 28 games. He outperformed himself in 2019, putting up an 11-8 record with a league-leading 0.