Spring is officially upon us. Yesterday, pitchers and catchers reported for duty to the Orioles’ spring training facility in Sarasota, a fact whose practical significance is threefold:
First, it’s time to welcome back to your daily feed a steady stream of hype vids like this one posted by O’s social media early on Wednesday.
Second, soon actual “baseball-related” goings-on will be going on, even if this amounts to clips of bullpen sessions, on-field warm-ups, and (in two weeks) box scores from games that don’t matter, featuring lots of players you’ve never heard of!
Third, fans will return to that time-honored tradition of reading too much into little scraps of evidence to figure out who will and won’t make the 26-man roster.