Goodbye, Dean Kremer

Dean Kremer, the last Oriole among those acquired in the Manny Machado trade, is now a Twin. Almost the last link to the dark days of the rebuild. Ryan Mountcastle is still, tenuously here, and OK, there’s Keegan Akin, who I’d forgotten has been on this team since 2020./ Kremer was never a star for the Orioles. But he was a guy who could more or less be counted on to show up and be a legitimate major league pitcher, so that every time he took the hill he was taking a start away from a guy of whom that could not be said. Guys like that have a lot of value. The Orioles seem to feel that, with Chris Bassitt coming back, and Cade Povich, Trey Gibson, and Nestor German ready to go, they have enough legitimate starting pitching. Does anybody have enough legitimate starting pitching? As for Trey Gibson, how did I only notice now that he has the first name of one recent Oriole and the surname of another? We should sign a Kyle Mancini. The last time I saw Dean Kremer appear for the Orioles, he…