Hello, friends.
There are now two months and 22 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day. The start of spring training sits at about a month and ten days away, though the pitchers and catchers report date has still not been officially announced as of yet.
Recent Bird Droppings have seen me advocating for some degree of patience with the developments of the Orioles offseason. I’ll say that’s changed with Friday’s surprise announcement of the signing of veteran righty Charlie Morton. It feels like probably this is going to be the team, or at least this is going to be the starting rotation, and if you’re concerned about whether either of these two things will be good enough to take the O’s farther than last season, I think that’s totally valid.