This week in the notebook, thoughts on the idea of trading a position player, and an apparent Orioles plan for developing the next good reliever.
There has lots of talk around the internet about trading a major league position player for some starting pitching reinforcements. The Orioles rotation has been bad, very bad, outside of Chris Tillman no one has an ERA under four in the starting rotation. If you take away Kevin Gausman and Tillman no one has an ERA under 5.67 except for Vance Worley who only made one start.
This is bad. The Orioles need only competence from their starting rotation and thus far it has been the three stooges manning the back of the rotation.