SARASOTA, Fla. -- Things seem back to normal for Darren O'Day. The side-arming 34-year-old righty, who signed a four-year, $31 million extension with the Orioles in December 2015, had a nightmarish 2016, missing nearly half the season with a strained hamstring and a right shoulder injury.
O'Day pitched in 34 games in 2016 -- exactly half what he threw in each of the previous three seasons -- and his 31 innings were the fewest of any of his nine Major League seasons, except for 2011, when he also had a right shoulder injury.
O'Day missed nearly two months in 2016 with the hamstring injury, and three weeks after he returned from the disabled list, he was back on it with shoulder woes.