The diaspora of those 2014 Orioles illustrates both how much talent was on that team, and how much they squeezed out of the fringes of the roster. The likes of Delmon Young and Alejandro De Aza played their best baseball for that team, while the pitching staff reached heights it’d fail to reach again. That was owed in part to standout defense — four of their starting position players were once or future Gold Glove winners, and they too set a standard that declined the following years.