Thursday Bird Droppings: Where you can't call it a comeback

Hello, friends.

There are now 110 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day 2018. I don't know what in the baseball world might entertain us today, but I do know that one week from now, Dan Duquette will entertain us, so to speak, by participating in the Rule 5 draft, so we can all look forward to that.

That may have been a bit of sarcasm just there. Things are starting to pick up, though, now that Shohei Ohtani has narrowed down his list of teams and apparently the same is true for the Marlins and Giancarlo Stanton on figuring out acceptable trade partners.

Teams are out there signing relatively cheap starting pitchers! You'd think that would be good news for the Orioles, who need cheap…