Know your Orioles 40-man: Dean Kremer

This article is part of the Know Your Orioles 40-man series, which features an article about each of the 38 players currently on the Orioles roster. There will be one every weekday until we run out of players.

The Orioles have spent the last few years trying to develop their pitching staff by bolstering their stock of prospects, and there was a time when Dean Kremer was right at the top of that list of pitchers leading the new wave.

Kremer was never the most talented of those young pitchers, but he did seem to be one of the furthest along in his development. In 2020 he was 24, he was putting some impressive outings under his belt, and it looked like he was poised to usher in the bumper crop…