The Baltimore Orioles had trouble keeping their pitchers healthy in 2018. To be fair, they had trouble with a lot of things. But because they couldn’t keep a steady rotation, they wound up turning to several young pitchers in the organization for help, including young righty Jimmy Yacabonis.
Drafted out of St. Joseph’s University in the 13th round of the 2013 amateur draft, Yacabonis had been a strong presence in the Orioles’ minor league bullpens for six seasons coming into 2018. He made his debut in Baltimore in 2017, in part due to a dominant 2016 stretch in Bowie in which he threw 44.