Orioles director of pitching development Rick Peterson will not return

The Orioles were already set to have a lot of upheaval among their pitching development staff with the departure of both pitching coach Dave Wallace and bullpen coach Dom Chiti from the MLB staff. They are not the end of it. MASN’s Roch Kubatko reported on Saturday that Rick Peterson, the organization’s director of pitching development, will not be returning to the team next season.

There was a good bit of hype around Peterson when he was first hired by the team shortly into the tenure of Dan Duquette as GM, as if Peterson was the miracle worker who would finally get something good out of “the cavalry” - that was the quartet of Chris Tillman, Brian Matusz, Jake Arrieta, and Zach Britton.…