Back to the Baltimore Orioles Newsfeed

Injuries dashed the high hopes for Zach Britton’s 2017 season

Related Topics: sports season

Coming off perhaps the greatest season by a reliever in MLB history, no one’s stock was higher than Zach Britton’s entering the 2017 season. Fresh off of back-to-back-to-back sub-2 ERA seasons as a reliever, Britton looked to pick up right where he left off in the midst of a 49-game streak of converted saves. Unfortunately for the southpaw, his body had other ideas and Britton never found his 2016 form while fighting a multitude of injuries.

Britton’s ailments started way back in spring training and threw off his throwing regimen from the get-go. With less than a week to go before the season, The Baltimore Sun put out this prophetic report to scare pretty much every Orioles fan who read it.