If you look at the Orioles’ 40-man roster for clues about their offseason shopping list, you’ll notice there are currently zero catchers listed. That’s going to have to change before spring training.
This past season, Orioles catchers hit a cumulative .223/.288/.348 with a .635 OPS. Pedro Severino and Austin Wynns accounted for the vast majority of those numbers behind the plate, as they combined to appear in 141 of 162 games in 2021. Drew Bonifant recently recapped this past season for those two catchers, which you can read here.
Between late October and early November, the O’s removed catchers Severino, Wynns, and Nick Ciuffo from the 40-man roster and outrighted them to Norfolk.