If you’re Orioles right-hander David Hess, no one could blame you for having mixed feelings about his team’s historically dismal 2018 season.
The 25-year-old got the chance to pitch 21 games (19 starts) at the major league level, which was pretty cool, but he won only three of them and the team lost a club-record 115 games, which wasn’t cool at all.
So, do you take away the warm glow of reaching your ultimate goal as a young baseball player or beat yourself up because you didn’t make a case to be Rookie of the Year?
“You’ve got to take a little bit of both,’’ he said this month at the OriolesREACH Holiday Party.