Orioles offseason wish list: Jack Flaherty

I don’t want the Orioles to sign Jack Flaherty. He’s not really on my wish list. Other CC writers have covered my preferred guys. Flaherty’s post-trade performance with the team in 2023 was so poor that I don’t care to see him pitch for the team again. This is not a reaction rooted in rationality. Flaherty’s bounce-back performance this year does strongly suggest Mike Elias was probably right to think there was something better still in there somewhere.

My feelings about Flaherty in particular aside, we all know that the Orioles need to improve their starting rotation. I don’t believe that they will actually splash out the kind of cash that it would take to lure Corbin Burnes back, or sign…