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.
Second base was a problem for the Orioles throughout 2021. As a group, the team’s second base unit accumulated -0.7 fWAR, the worst mark in the league among that position. But there seemed to be an obvious solution already in-house, former Angels farmhand Jahmai Jones.
Jones became an Oriole on February 2, 2021, when the O’s landed him in exchange for starting pitcher Alex Cobb.