Slowly but surely, the veterans of the 2012 and 2014 playoff Orioles teams have their careers moving on elsewhere. We give a Birdland salute to Wei-Yin Chen as he heads to Miami.
When the Orioles signed Taiwanese pitcher Wei-Yin Chen about this time four years ago, no one had any idea that the franchise was about to emerge from the dark years. Chen was not even the most heralded signing out of Asia that same offseason, with the signing of Tsuyoshi Wada and the botched mess with amateur Seong-Min Kim from Korea getting much more attention.