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.
It’s been eight years now since Orioles fans have seen the starting rotation be anything other than one of the worst in all of MLB. Dan Duquette’s persistent inability to solve this problem eventually made the current rebuilding period inevitable. He did, at least, leave his successor with a pair of first round picks who might be able to start to turn this long-ingrained problem around.