Orioles Opening Day Bird Droppings

What a stupidly long winter. But no matter. It has now been vanquished; for the next 6 months at least. Welcome back, Orioles Baseball. Welcome back, welcome back, welcommmmmme back.

Orioles executive VP of baseball operations Dan Duquette expects fewer roster moves | orioles.com: News
Actual quote from the article: "He looks like a qualified Major Leaguer." Love you, DD. Never change.

Steve Melewski: Minor league break camp rosters

SteveO with the run down on all the full season minor league clubs.

The all-Haiku season preview - SweetSpot Blog - ESPN
Who doesn't love a Haiku or 30? Throw down your best O's Haikus in the comments.

Verlander, Posey, and the Death of Free Agency - The Triangle Blog - Grantland

At some point, with just how much money is flowing throughout the game right now, does it even make sense to risk injury in pursuit of landing a SUPERHUGE Free Agent contract if your current club is already offering you a HUGE contract extension?

Happy Birthday wishes to Denny Hocking, hitting coach for the Bowie Baysox; as well as brief O (and one of my fav players when I was growing up) Pete Incaviglia. Old Timey O, and HOFer, Hughie Jennings was also born on this day. He made a career out of getting HBP, and lead the league for 5 consecutive years (1894-1898) amassing 202 of his career (and Major League record) 287 HBPs in that span. Impressive.