Hello, friends.
There are now 128 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day 2018. Today is going to be quite an eventful day with very little happening. There’s the deadline to add players to the 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 draft, as well as the MLBPA’s self-imposed deadline for negotiating about whether or not Japanese phenom Shohei Ohtani can be posted this year.
If the Orioles do it right, none of those decisions will have a whole lot of impact on this season. Ideally, they’ll protect everyone from the draft who might be picked by another team.