Good morning, Camden Chatters.
With Christmas just days away, it’s the quietest time of the year for MLB hot stove activity, which is saying something for an offseason that’s already been dreadfully dull. Of course, the Orioles probably aren’t going to be making particularly aggressive moves no matter what time of year it is, so it’s basically business as usual in Birdland.
The O’s did announce a quartet of minor league signings yesterday, a couple of which we’d already heard about. The most experienced of the bunch is veteran lefty Fernando Abad, who’s pitched in 384 major league games for six different teams (and was prominently involved in the Manny Machado/Oakland Athletics brouhaha in 2014 after throwing at Manny’s surgically repaired knee).