Offseason Chat Transcript: Baltimore Orioles

With so many talented young players that still have to be sorted out, I have doubts the Orioles make more than one or two semi-big moves this offseason. They still don’t know what they have, and therefore, what they need.

A TOR pitcher would be nice. But not necessary. The O’s very probably have their analysts going over analytics and video of pitchers that may be available in Rule 5 and candidates to be released. The O’s are doing what the Guardians do – bring in seemingly failed pitchers and make them productive. Paying retail-plus for a name pitcher that might well go south on them is not how these 2 franchises build their staffs. If the O’s do go for a name pitcher I think they’ll go after one that didn’t have a great 2022, but their pitching analysts see ways they can improve the man in 2023.

As for their pitchers “inconsistency” – I think just about all of the starting pitchers improved as the year went on. A few ran out of gas their last couple of starts – but they’d never pitched that many innings in a year.