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Saturday Bird Droppings: A week of deadlines in MLB looms

Good morning, Birdland!

The virus-shortened GM Meetings concluded this week with predictably little fanfare. No major moves were expected, and in fact none materialized. But that could change in the next week or so.

The deadline for players to be offered arbitration is less than a week away. Any players at risk of being non-tendered in that time could instead seem themselves traded to a team that values them and would prefer to avoid the free agency process. For the Orioles, the two names most likely to be surrounded by those sorts of rumors are infielders Ramón Urías and Jorge Mateo

Things could go the other way as well.