SARASOTA, FLA. — For rookie pitchers Dean Kremer, Keegan Akin and Bruce Zimmermann, making their big league debuts with the Orioles in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season puts them somewhere between prospect and known commodity this spring.
Each one is trying to build on what they were able to achieve last season without taking too much from the highs or lows that came with their brief time in the big leagues.
“You don’t want to put too much stock into it because in the grand scheme of things, what’s [seven] innings in an entire career?” said Zimmermann, a Towson University and Loyola Blakefield product who has the least experience of the three.