The Orioles could be a match with contenders such as the Brewers, Mariners and Red Sox for deals at this year’s MLB trade deadline.

While the Orioles would find greater depths, rock bottom for Morton came April 20, an Easter Sunday start in which he gave up seven runs but recorded just seven outs against the Cincinnati Reds, a 24-2 throttling that portended grimmer things for the 9-12 Orioles.

The Orioles took the series opener 11-4 to extend its twinning streak to three games. Baltimore has scored 34 runs in the past three games, while Toronto has dropped two straight giving up 21 runs. The Blue Jays were 8-1 before the two-game losing skid.

The embattled long-time shot caller at the top of the Orioles' food chain is on about as hot a seat as any other MLB executive out there, and the moves he does or does not make could very well end up deciding if he still has his current job come Winter Meetings.

"Plenty of teams could use a left-handed bat, though, most desperately the Houston Astros. And at a pro-rated cost of less than $3 million the rest of the way, none of the remotely legitimate buyers is going to balk at the price tag," Miller wrote.

There have been countless instances this season where broadcasters have taken exception to borderline calls from umpires behind the plate. But on Monday, Baltimore Orioles broadcasters Kevin Brown and Ben McDonald had every right to critique home-plate umpire Brian Walsh after one of the most egregious missed strike calls of the season thus far.

Robo-umpires cannot be integrated into Major League Baseball soon enough, as Monday night's game between the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays

The Kansas pitching rotation recently got a long stronger with the addition of one of the top arms available in the transfer portal this offseason.