The Orioles need to add two starters to their rotation for 2026 to have much hope of contending. The replacements for Tomoyuki Sugano and Zach Eflin need to be much better than either one of them to give the Orioles a chance. And Dean Kremer needs to find a place at the back of the rotation instead of being pushed into more. The other in-house rotation options (Grayson Rodriguez, Brandon Young, Cade Povich) aren’t the players you can pencil into a rotation if you are serious about improving.

The problem with this year’s free agent class of starting pitchers is that they aren’t particularly ace-like. Every starting pitcher near the top of the free agent rankings has question marks, and maybe in a different year they wouldn’t be the kind of players your favorite team would go after.

But th

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