After Tuesday night’s divisive trade of Grayson Rodriguez, the Orioles’ biggest need is now bigger and more obvious than ever before. If Mike Elias has a Charlie Day board with his plans for the offseason, starting pitching was already plastered all over it in bold-lettered sticky notes. Those notes have now been taken down, underlined several times and slapped back up on the board.

There’s a consensus around baseball that starters Ranger Suárez, Framber Valdez, Dylan Cease and Michael King form the A Tier of pitching free agents. However, given the depth of the Orioles’ need and Mike Elias’ propensity for “creative solutions” in the offseason, Baltimore may be looking to do more business in the B Tier and below. And arguably the most attractive name in that second tier is former Red Sox

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