ATLANTA - The 2002 Baltimore Orioles will not go down as one of the pre-eminent teams in Major League Baseball history. They won 67 games, posted a middling 4.46 ERA and scored the second-fewest runs in the American League.
But one of their few bright spots came in the way of a previously unknown 26-year-old pitcher who went 15-9 with a 3.57 ERA and finished second in the AL Rookie of the Year voting to the Blue Jays' Eric Hinske.
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