When the Baltimore Orioles acquired Dillon Tate from the Yankees, along with Cody Carroll and Josh Rogers, in exchange for Zach Britton, they were taking a chance on an early-twenties pitcher with good fastball velocity and who’d pitched his way into almost every top-100 prospect list by 2016.
However, over the past three seasons, Tate has struggled through an assortment of injuries including a hamstring issue in 2016, shoulder fatigue in 2017 and a quad issue in 2018. When Tate was with the Rangers, they tried to fix his mechanics which led to diminished velocity and a lack of control on the mound.