A decade ago, Orioles major league camp literally had the entire state between their spring home in Fort Lauderdale and the minor leaguers on the west coast of Florida at Sarasota's Twin Lakes Park.
It's only a few miles of interstate highway and a couple of turns between Ed Smith Stadium and Twin Lakes now, but Orioles manager Brandon Hyde — a veteran of spring trainings at complexes where everyone was together — has gone out of his way this spring to try to make it feel like there was no distance at all between the major and minor leaguers.