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Friday Bird Droppings: Where free agents are free, but not cheap

Hello, friends.

There are now 145 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day 2018. That is a lot of days, more than I really would like to contemplate. But we'll all just have to take it one day at a time and before we know it, Opening Day will be here.

The offseason has begun, though it's not quite hot stove season yet. Right now, we're in a five day window where players have become free agents but their previous teams have an exclusive negotiating window with those players.

It's not until the evening of November 6 that any team can sign any free agent.