Camden Depot · Sep 28, 2018
Cavalry Is Here, But They Are a Little Irregular
The Orioles have had a few calls for the cavalry. The first utterance was under the Andy MacPhail regime and it spoke of talents like Chris Tillman, Brian Matusz, Zach Britton, Radhames Liz, Jake Arrieta, Brandon Erbe, Troy Patton and those are just the arms that appeared on Baseball America's top 100 lists. The idea behind it all was about buying bats and not spending a great amount of money on pitching, to simply grow the arms. It did not work. Of those starters, the Orioles only saw starting pitching success with Tillman. The others failed to provide the club with what the club was anticipating. The cavalry was called, it showed up, and they mainly rode donkeys.