This article was originally published on www.si.com/mlb/orioles as What Has Caused Orioles Star Tomoyuki Sugano To Struggle in His Recent Starts?. When the Baltimore Orioles signed Tomoyuki Sugano out of Japan this past offseason, there was always an element of risk that came with the addition.

Baltimore Orioles slugger Ryan O'Hearn is headed to his first Major League Baseball All-Star appearance.

When Ryan O’Hearn saw the more than 1.7 million votes that had him leading American League designated hitters in All-Star voting last week, he was blown away. Maybe there was an orange wave, he thought,