Saturday’s Bird Droppings: Where we’re speculating about the Orioles

Morning, Birdland!

It’s been a mellow offseason across baseball so far. The Orioles additions of Mike Elias and Sig Mejdal in the front office are arguably the biggest moves in the league, with the possible exception of the Yankees trading for James Paxton.

Teams, agents and players, in general, like to get past Thanksgiving and into December before making any commitments. Then there is a flurry of movement right before the week of Christmas into the New Year. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Once business returns to usual this Monday there will be two weeks until the annual Winter Meetings. This year’s event will take place in Las Vegas from December 9th through the 13th. If any more major trades are…