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Thursday Bird Droppings: Everybody loves watching the Rutschman-Rodriguez battery

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Hello, friends.

There are now 35 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day, which is to say that five weeks today there will be real baseball. The number 35 is currently in use by Adley Rutschman, and hopefully it will be for some time to come. It should have been retired for Mike Mussina’s Hall of Fame career before Rutschman ever arrived, but now that Adley has it, he’s welcome to it for as long as he wants.

Spring training games are only two days away. However, you will have to wait until more than a week into the exhibition schedule before MASN, the Orioles-owned television network, will actually bother to televise one of these games.