It wouldn’t be a season of Orioles baseball without a few pitchers who spent their year being shuttled between Norfolk and Baltimore to keep the bullpen afloat when the regulars were overworked, ineffective, injured, or some combination of all three. This season, those two frequent fliers were Nick Vespi and Logan Gillaspie.
Between the two of them, they were optioned from the Orioles down to the Tides nine times and called up 11! The new collective bargaining agreement that went into place in 2022 limited the number of options of a player to five times per season, a number that Vespi (5) matched and Gillaspie (4) just fell short of.