Good morning, Camden Chatters.
Well, the Orioles finally did what fans have been clamoring for them to do all winter: they signed a starting pitcher. It’s just...maybe not who you’d expect.
The O’s went overseas to add a hurler, signing 35-year-old right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano, a 12-year veteran of Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan, to a one-year, $13 million deal. Sugano is a three-time Central League MVP, including this most recent season, in which he went 15-3 and posted a spotless 1.67 ERA. He’s making the jump to the States after spending his entire pro career with the Yomiuri Giants, with whom he was an eight-time All-Star, two-time strikeout leader and a four-time winner of the ERA…
