Hello, friends.
There are now two months and eight days remaining until Orioles Opening Day, where they’ll be in Toronto to play the Blue Jays. At least we know they won’t be facing Roki Sasaki on that day. It’s only 24 days to go until pitchers and catchers report to Sarasota to mark the beginning of spring training.
The next date of note on the baseball offseason calendar sits two days away, when the results for the BBWAA Hall of Fame voting for this year’s induction will be announced. If you’ve been following the intrepid Ryan Thibodaux and his Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot Tracker team, you may already know that based on ballots revealed so far, Ichiro Suzuki is a unanimous choice, with each of CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner, and Carlos Beltrán above the 75% threshold for induction.