Hello, friends.
There are now 77 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day. In uniform number terms, that’s 2022 Terrin Vavra days until baseball returns. He switched to the number 23 for 2023, so it’s not even his most recent number. This time a month from now, we’ll be in the final days before pitchers and catchers report to spring training.
Today, as we have done many times this offseason, we contemplate Dylan Cease. Should the Orioles trade for him? Are they going to? ESPN’s Jesse Rogers, whose reporting mostly comes from a White Sox perspective, wrote yesterday about Cease and how the asking price of new general manager Chris Getz - who was supposedly once offered in a trade for Brian Roberts late in his career - has remained high.