It was about a week ago that our own Mark Brown observed:

There are few things as fun in baseball as when a player comes essentially out of nowhere to end up on your favorite team and makes a great first impression by lighting the world on fire for weeks or months on end.

Every year, it seems, the Orioles have an out-of-nowhere hero emerge: names like Steve Pearce, Delmon Young, Yennier Cano, Stevie Wilkerson, and others you may have rattling around in a remote corner of your brain.

The trouble is, Mark also wrote, the magic is seldom repeated. Unfortunately, these out-of-nowhere heroes are more likely to end up flashes-in-the-pan than “the next great thing.”

This year, with so many freak injuries, the Orioles resorted to a team record number of replacements, including at catcher, wher

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