Remember when MLB rosters used to explode in size come September 1 every year? Teams used to go from 25 players to 40. Now it’s 26 players to 28.
The O’s have used that extra roster space to expand the capacity of the Norfolk shuttle. Between the selections, claims, options, recalls, and placements on the IL, the Birds have been quite busy recently. By my count, they’ve made 58 roster transactions in the month of September.
In one of his more recent moves, O’s general manager Mike Elias promoted Nick Ciuffo to the active roster. He joins Pedro Severino and Austin Wynns to form a catching trio for Baltimore.