The Orioles entered this season with more questions than answers. It makes sense that a rebuilding team would possess more problems than solutions, but no position group better exemplified the situation than the starting rotation.
There was really no way of knowing how long Matt Harvey would last. The answer turned out to be much longer than Wade LeBlanc or Félix Hernández, but that wasn’t saying much. The Orioles did not know what to expect from the group, but there was a general consensus with the rotation. Regardless of how the veterans performed, they would be replaced by a young group of starters by the end of the year.