No one player can rescue the Orioles rotation

Our worst baseball fears have been realized. The Orioles starting rotation is a disaster. It’s the worst group in Major League Baseball, and no other team is particularly close. Even worse than that? There’s not much that can be done about it at this point.

During the offseason, Mike Elias and the Orioles’ front office reportedly made a push to re-sign Corbin Burnes. When that didn’t pan out, they pivoted to a focus on depth. That landed them with Tomoyuki Sugano and Charlie Morton as their rotational reinforcements, while Kyle Gibson was also added at the very end of spring training.

Sugano has been a mixed bag that has produced solid top line results (3.43 ERA), but possesses scary…