The news over the weekend was bad, for both the present and the future.
John Means revealed Saturday that he needs Tommy John surgery on his left elbow, meaning he’ll be out for the rest of the 2022 season and into 2023.
Such news has extending repercussions. In the present, the Orioles lose their No. 1 starter, their de facto ace and the only proven member of their pitching rotation. Baltimore was looking at a shaky pitching picture coming into the season with Means; now without him, a rotation of what at the moment looks like Bruce Zimmermann, Jordan Lyles, Spenser Watkins, Tyler Wells and Chris Ellis is stretched even tighter.