Ryan O’Hearn deserves his flowers for being named a 2025 All Star. The part-time DH easily could have been added to the AL squad last season, but he forced voters’ hands this year.
O’Hearn definitely did not benefit from some type of team-specific bias, as no other Orioles made the team. As Mark Brown noted earlier this week, this will be the first time that Baltimore has only one All Star since Jorge López in 2022.
That year marked the last time that the O’s sold at the trade deadline. Baltimore flipped López and fan favorite Trey Mancini in deals that netted Yennier Cano, Cade Povich and Chayce McDermott.