Looking ahead to the Orioles Opening Day roster

Manny Machado won’t be running down the orange carpet this year. Other people will.One of the constant refrains from Orioles spring training so far has been about the wide-open competitions for a lot of the roster. In contrast to past years where you could know all but a handful of players on the Opening Day roster as soon as players reported to camp, there are a lot of spots that seem to be up for grabs a third of the way into the Grapefruit League schedule.

Even the people who will be setting up the roster probably don’t know exactly who will make this team right now. With another big refrain from spring training being that the results don’t matter yet, figuring out the roster makeup is…