That stretch from late May to mid-June when the bad news came quickly on so many elbow injuries will be hard to top in terms of season-defining stretches for these Orioles. It feels like we just had another, though.
Although he was docked in scouting reports for his strikeout rate — and likely fell to Baltimore because of it — Honeycutt hit .318 with a 1.124 on-base-plus-slugging percentage as a junior.
It might not feel good to hear, but these are the types of acquisitions this team needed. There’s not much that can raise its ceiling, given the stars up and down the lineup and the two pitchers atop its rotation. It needed its floor to be raised.