Hello, friends.
There are now 84 days to go until Orioles Opening Day. Pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training is only a bit more than a month from now. The idea of real baseball, or at least the poor facsimile of that we will get in Baltimore in 2020, is approaching slowly but surely.
Among the worst parts of a multi-year bottoming-out rebuild effort is the fact that the standard phrase of hope in the middle of a lost year, “Maybe next year,” has no worth. Everyone already knew in 2019 that 2020 was not going to be the Orioles year either.