We are now over a week removed from the baseball Winter Meetings and the Orioles walked away from them only acquiring two players through the Rule 5 draft to the displeasure of many fans.
In the time that Dan Duquette has had the reigns of the Orioles’ baseball operations, he has built a reputation for waiting until the last minute to make any splashes in the free agent market. The most notable cases of this include the signings of Nelson Cruz and Ubaldo Jimenez in 2014, Everth Cabrera in 2015, Yovani Gallardo and the failed signing of Dexter Fowler in 2016.