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Monday Bird Droppings: Where the Orioles have an All-Star pitcher

Good morning, Camden Chatters.

If I had told you at the start of the season that the Orioles would have only one All-Star representative, you wouldn’t have been surprised. They were expected to be — and indeed are — a very bad team, with precious few stellar individual performances.

If I had told you at the start of the season that the Orioles’ one All-Star representative would be a pitcher, despite the club’s league-worst 5.73 ERA, that’s where things would get interesting. “Huh,” you might think. “Well, maybe Alex Cobb is having a good year.