Thursday Bird Droppings

LJ Hoes Talks About Orioles Spring Training | Baltimore Sports Report
BSR talks to Little Jerome about his first ever big-league ST.

2012 Orioles Projections: Reimold, Jones, Markakis, Teagarden, Antonelli, Chavez | Camden Crazies
Moroz says they'll be a middle-of-the-pack offense. I'm sure he's really looking forward to writing about the pitchers.

2012 Oriole Win Predictions | Dempsey's Army
Heath says they'll struggle to win 70. I could have told you that without all the fancy spreadsheets. But fancy spreadsheets are cool.

Camden Depot: Comparing fWAR with rWAR
There has been some talk about the discussion between FanGraphs WAR and the WAR displayed on Baseball-Reference. Jon breaks it down.

Matusz excited to make first spring start | orioles.com
The first televised Orioles game this season is Monday night and Brian Matusz will be making the start. The best part about this was Steve Melewski tweeting that it's a good sign that they're giving Matusz the start that day and EME calling him out on how ridiculous that was to say.

For Ryan Flaherty, a golden opportunity; for Orioles, a difficult decision - baltimoresun.com
Your feel-good ST story about the Rule 5 pick.

School of Roch: Bundy impresses in live batting practice
Dylan Bundy made mincemeat out of Chris Davis. Eh, who doesn't?

Amber Theoharis: Can Chris Davis reach power potential in 2012?
I hope so, Amber.