For a fan of a rebuilding team like the Orioles, the real action is down in the minor leagues. That’s just how it is. You can get excited for some guys on the big league team and hope that they work out, but even an optimistic scenario for the 2021 squad would involve a bad team that’s bolstered by a number of future pieces starting to break out at the MLB level.
In an ordinary year, the beginning of the minor league season would not follow too far after MLB Opening Day. Although 2021 is thus far not nearly as strange as 2020, it is still not an ordinary year, either.