The annual deadline to add players to the 40-man roster means different things to different clubs, but for a team as focused on fostering organizational depth as the Orioles, it's important for several reasons.
They aren't one of the clubs with more players to protect from the Rule 5 draft than spots to protect them, but they are a team that covets its own talent and wants to ensure that anyone in its farm system with a major league future has it in Baltimore.
So Monday's deadline to protect players will be a big day for the Orioles, though some of this year's most-pressing pieces of business were already finished after they added catcher Chance Sisco and left-hander Tanner Scott to the major league roster in September.