Friday afternoon Orioles game thread: at Cubs, 2:20 ET

Welcome to the post-fire sale era of Orioles baseball. Don’t feel bad if you need name tags to identify half the players on this revamped team.

Yesterday’s flurry of trades capped a frenzied week before the deadline in which the O’s dealt eight veteran players off of their active roster, including two everyday outfielders, their primary 1B/DH, their utility infielder, a starting pitcher, and three relievers. You can review the full round-up of deals on Camden Chat’s trade tracker in case you missed anything.

It’ll be years before we can assess how well those trades have panned out, but for now, we’ll be seeing a drastically different O’s roster than the one we saw for the first four months.…