Tuesday Bird Droppings: Cedric Mullins targets a Thursday return

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There are now just 16 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day. Among players who are in camp with the team right now, that’s Kolten Wong days to go, which isn’t very exciting. Number 16 has also belonged for a number of years each to Trey Mancini, Wei-Yin Chen, and Scott McGregor. It’s not long now.

The Orioles steamrolling through spring training was at least temporarily halted yesterday, as they went on the road and lost to a Yankees split squad by a 5-3 margin. Non-roster pitcher Julio Teheran wore most of the damage in the box score, as he was charged with four runs in just 2.1 innings. O’s batters had ten hits in the losing effort,…