Looking back on the Orioles Jonathan Schoop trade return, one year later

Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images Jonathan Schoop got traded to the Brewers and is now with the Twins.There was a lot that was sad about the trades that the Orioles had to make last July. Few of them are more of a bummer than the necessity of splitting apart the fantastic friendship of Manny Machado and Jonathan Schoop by trading first Machado and then, before the end of the month, Schoop. So many of the good moments of the several seasons prior to last year were wrapped up in those two friends being their goofy selves and all of that was gone in what felt like the blink of an eye.

The Schoop trade, like the Kevin Gausman trade less than an hour before it, was not something that seemed…