If you were building a wish list for the Baltimore Orioles’ rotation this winter, Framber Valdez would live somewhere near the top of the page, underlined twice.
According to Jon Morosi, the left-hander has already met with the Giants, Mets, and Orioles, with Baltimore very much in the mix. That tracks. The O’s badly need a frontline starter to drop in alongside Corbin Burnes’ ghost, and Valdez checks just about every box: big-game experience, playoff innings, and a groundball machine.
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This is exactly the type of arm you plant at the front of a rotation when you stop pretending and start acting like a team that expects to play into late October every year.