The first 15 games will be against teams that are in the playoffs this year. Brewers, Red Sox, Rays and Jays. Hopes for a fast start are dim.

Those 15 games are followed with 3 against the skanks.

Spring Tng. will be hugely important this year.I don't recall any Orioles team ever being this fluid. A very good team could come out of it.Add Rutch and Stowers to the lineup and G-Rod, DL Hall and perhaps Bradish as starters plus a couple of bullpen pick-ups, and we'd kick butt.

I guess I'm fresh off the kicked our butt feeling. I mean, we're number 30. The journey to butt kickers is long. Especially in our division. We need an infield and almost a whole rotation. The washed out starters like Lopez might compose a good bullpen.

I'd like them to sign Iglesias and keep Mateo, Urias and Gutierrez.Iglesias is sort of an insurance policy.You have some infield talent in the minors, too.

I'm probably being too optimistic, but I think there's a lot of potential in this organization and we'll see it in Baltimore before the season's over.

Enough to sell some tickets anyway.

Depends on how much Iggy would cost. Probably not coming to Balt. I think pitching, again, will be the downfall of 2022. Grayson hasn't pitched at AAA yet. Perfect excuse to leave him at Norfolk long enough to delay his service clock. Hall is coming back from injury, we'll have to see how that goes. Zimm, A Wells, Lowther, Akin, I have question marks with each one. I have never been impressed with Kremer. Tyler Wells, I'm not sure about him either. If he falters, who is going to close?

?Baumann? too.

Baumann looked horrible, frankly.

Afraid so.