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Orioles rookie left-hander Josh Rogers playing it fast and loose

if everyone in the major leagues pitched like Orioles rookie Josh Rogers, there wouldn’t be an experimental pitch clock behind center field in each spring ballpark and Major League Baseball wouldn’t have to obsess about the length of games.

Rogers, 24, works so fast that it was all manager Brandon Hyde wanted to talk about after he threw two perfect innings against the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday.

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“The tempo is unbelievable,” Hyde said. “He gets the ball, gets on the rubber and goes.