We are one week away from Opening Day. The Orioles have four spring training games remaining in Florida, plus a tune-up exhibition against the Nationals on Monday afternoon. The news from camp was not encouraging today, with manager Brandon Hyde indicating that both Gunnar Henderson and Félix Bautista are still up in the air for whether they’ll be on the Opening Day roster.
I’d been resigning myself to the idea that Henderson will miss at least a little bit of the season. The Bautista news is a bit more of a surprise. That’s my fault, I suppose, for buying in to how he’d been pitching and his own belief he’d have the velocity back by Opening Day.