Zach Eflin Returns to Orioles: A Potential Bounceback?

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00:00I want to start with Zach Eflin with a couple of minutes left in this segment.

00:03Zach Eflin is back with the Baltimore Orioles.

00:05It's a one-year, $10 million deal with a mutual option for 2027.

00:10So Eflin is back, and that rotation as it stands right now in Baltimore

00:15looks like it's going to be Braddish, Boz, Trevor Rodgers, Dean Kramer, Zach Eflin.

00:23Yes or no question.

00:25Job well done with the starting rotation?

00:27What if I tell you I think the job still isn't done?

00:31Yeah, that's a fair answer.

00:33That might be depth.

00:35I think we might be looking at roster resource and considering that Cade Povich

00:40and whoever else was plugged in there at the time,

00:45Tyler Wells was considered in the rotation.

00:50And maybe the Orioles were never even actually considering those guys.

00:52So the Orioles might still be looking at it as we may have one more spot to fill out here.

00:57I just – I don't know.

00:59At that price point too, it just – it kind of screamed depth to me.

01:03I mean, Eflin had a 5-9-3, was banged up last year and threw 71 in the third innings.

01:07Seems like a great bounce back kind of candidate here that I think will give you a little bit more

01:12than a Tyler Wells on the upside.

01:14But I do feel like this was more of just a back-end fill move and they're still not done.

01:20And in that case, it's fine.

01:22It's good.

01:22He's a bounce back guy.

01:24I guess my follow-up would be you think $10 million is depth,

01:28but then I stop myself and I think about the way that Baltimore has spent this offseason already.

01:33Like they pushed a chip in on Grayson Rodriguez to get a guy that flirted with 40 homers last year

01:39and Taylor Ward, a team that is paying Pete Alonzo $150 million is not going to stop at one year $10 million

01:47and say, yeah, that's a guy we want making 32 starts, which is cool because I feel like the last five years

01:54of Baltimore Orioles baseball, we'd be looking at this deal saying, okay, that's their three-starter.

01:58That's their four-starter.

01:59They're paying a mid-level for a mid-level pitcher.

02:01That's what they did with Chagano last year.

02:02That's what they did with others.

02:03But not the case for Baltimore right now, and that's really exciting.