Orioles reset: Mike Elias sees ‘very positive steps forward from a lot of individuals’ in first 40 games

“I think for the pitchers, this group — [Dean] Kremer, [Keegan] Akin, [Bruce] Zimmermann, to a little bit lesser degree [Zac] Lowther, this group would have been pitching a lot in Triple-A last year and didn’t get to do that,” Elias said. “We’re not in a position to kind of wait for that this year, so they’re going to get a lot of their development, a lot of their lumps in up here at the major league level. We’re going to try to avoid stressing them. That’s going to involve guys going to Triple-A for stretches and us managing our roster.”