The Orioles enter this offseason with a bullpen that is thin on pitchers with successful experience as late-inning relievers, and pretty much completely empty on pitchers who’ve been closers before. At last week’s GM meetings, Mike Elias acknowledged this in remarks to O’s reporters, saying, “Our plan A is to get somebody with closing experience.” Free agent options who fit this bill are not plentiful, so whoever the Orioles target, if they’re serious about doing it, they’re going to have to pay up to make it happen.

My pick for upgrading the back end of the bullpen is Robert Suarez, who hits the free agent market this winter after opting out of the remaining two years of his contract with the Padres. I will admit before going much farther that an amount of the appeal for Suarez to me ste

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