Kevin Pillar

I love him.

I fell in love with him last year.

This year, 28 games

Rico Garcia's giving up two earned runs in 26 and a third innings.

He struck out 30 batters.

Let me tell you about this guy.

Last year, twice, bases loaded with no outs.

He gets out of it without giving up a run.

He constantly got in tight jams last year, and there were times when you have no outs second or third.

He'd give up a run on a sack fly, but nothing else.

He is that guy.

He is that dude.

This is what the Orioles are going to have.

When Helsley comes back, when she's going to come back,

You're now going to have a guy in Rico who's going to get pushed to the eighth inning who has experience closing out games.

Let's say you have a week where he'll have to go back-to-back, and now you don't want to use him in that third game.

Well, now you can put Rico out there because you know he has experience closing games.

They have another guy, Anthony Nunez.

I don't think he's quite to that stud level yet, but he has real stuff, a converted infielder.

They got him in the Mets trade last year when they traded Cedric Mullins there.