Hello, friends.
There are now two months and 11 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day. That game against the Blue Jays has one more baked-in storyline as of yesterday, with reliever Jeff Hoffman - who reportedly had a contract scuttled by the O’s due to an issue in his physical - proclaiming that he’d have some extra motivation in facing the team.
These comments are similar in nature to what was said by Grant Balfour after he failed a physical in a different Orioles era. Balfour’s predictions about his own health did not bear out, or at least I’ve always assumed that whatever was on the O’s physical at that time led to Balfour’s having the problems he had from that point forward.