Just like there were in March when the coronavirus pandemic shut down baseball and sent the Orioles packing from Florida, two weeks remain before Opening Day.
This time, rosters are expanded to 30 players instead of the original 26 to account for the possibility that pitchers might not be fully built up yet. That leaves a few more spots for Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias and manager Brandon Hyde to fill from the original pool of 45 players they brought to Camden Yards last week to begin workouts.
A week in, Hyde said he feels like there’s “questions around the field” as the Orioles get into intrasquad games and decide how to put together their roster.