Good morning, Birdland!
I need all of the position players in Sarasota immediately. We got hit with punch after punch on the pitching front this week. Mark explained it all on Thursday, but it’s worth repeating: Dillon Tate, Félix Bautista, and DL Hall are all dealing with injuries to some degree. None of them sound particularly serious, but there is a chance that Tate and Bautista both open the season on the IL. Not great!
The bullpen was one of the reasons the Orioles returned to relevance a season ago. But there is an expectation of negative regression in 2023 simply because that’s what relievers do!