Opening Day Bird Droppings: Ready or not, here we go

Good morning, Camden Chatters.

The stage is set. The game is afoot. Today, the Baltimore Orioles begin the 2022 regular season.

Here goes nothing.

This promises to be one of the most fascinating seasons of O’s baseball in recent memory. Not because they’ll be contenders, of course — by all accounts, the Orioles will be one of the worst teams in MLB yet again. FanGraphs, PECOTA, and other forecasting models all peg the O’s for anywhere from 90-100+ losses this year, as does every Camden Chat writer. There’s going to be a lot of bad, bad baseball.

But what makes this season interesting is that, if all goes right, we’ll see the seedlings of the next great Orioles team start to get planted. Adley…