With a Félix Bautista-sized hole in the bullpen for 2024, the importance for the Orioles to find someone this offseason who can bolster either their eighth- or ninth-inning options has been plain.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, MLB Network’s Joel Sherman offered one possible direction that the O’s could go, reporting on Twitter that the O’s “have been seriously engaged” in trying to bring free agent Craig Kimbrel to sign with Baltimore. By the afternoon, the deal was done. The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal was first to report on its completion and on the terms of one year and $13 million.