Even with Thursday’s additions after the Orioles set their 30-player Opening Day roster, the organization’s alternate training site in Bowie offers perhaps one of the best student-to-teacher ratios in the nation.
Given that the Orioles have yet to fully stock their 60-player pool and that a collection of players who might’ve been sent to Bowie are instead on the major league roster after a set of injuries, the alternate site will have a max of 18 players available when the Orioles open the 60-game regular season Friday against the Boston Red Sox. At most, eight of them will be position players, given that one of the three players on Baltimore’s taxi squad during road trips must be a catcher.