As the wintering offseason continues to move like an Arctic glacier, the Orioles remain nothing more than a sheet of ice adrift in a barren freeze.
Welington Castillo, who remains the most notable acquisition thus far, does solidify one of the positions the Orioles set out to stronghold. Along with Castillo, trading for Logan Verrett, claiming Adam Walker, re-signing Logan Ondrusek, agreeing with a few minor league free agents and adding a pair of Rule-5 draftees, the Orioles have invested not in the weak free-agent pool, but in the cornerstone of organizational depth.
If Oriole fans believed Dan Duquette was to bring summer to the tundra with a payroll already reaching its cap, this current reality will have surely changed your mind.