Good morning, Birdland!
This is a weird in-between time on baseball’s off-season schedule. Free agency has—technically—begun. But the only players that teams can sign are those that were on their roster last year. From a player’s perspective, it makes little sense to re-sign with your most recent employer when you could just wait a few days and see what the 29 other clubs have to say about you.
For the Orioles, that means the elite batch of names they could be talking to right now is Aaron Hicks, Jack Flaherty, Adam Frazier, Shintaro Fujinami, and Kyle Gibson.