Saturday Bird Droppings: Post-deadline growing pains

Good Morning Birdland,

Welp, the revamped Orioles offense—which is now missing Ryan O’Hearn, Ramón Laureano, and Cedric Mullins—did not show itself well in its first post-deadline game. They lost 1-0 to the Cubs and totaled just three hits.

As I have said a few times, I’m not gonna get too worked up over game results through the end of the season. The front office’s main priority is not 2025 wins at this point. So, a loss is tolerable provided that the context produces some good news. That was partially the case on Friday afternoon in Chicago.

Trevor Rogers was, once again, really good. He tossed all eight innings that the Orioles were responsible for and allowed just one run on four hits, no…