Former Oriole Larry Sheets “wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy” the 21-game losing streak his team endured in 1988. But his son Gavin, who plays for the White Sox, just went through the same thing.
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.