When the Orioles acquired Corbin Burnes from the Brewers earlier this month, visions of an amazing starting rotation going from Burnes at the top all the way down to Dean Kremer at the bottom danced through the heads of most everyone in Birdland. The visions lasted about 24 hours after pitchers and catchers reported to Sarasota, until Mike Elias told reporters yesterday about Kyle Bradish and John Means being out of the Opening Day roster picture.
The result is that things are a lot less settled than they seemed earlier this week. For Bradish, the injury was announced as a UCL sprain that he suffered while in his offseason throwing program a month ago.