Saturday Bird Droppings: Hoping the rain goes away in Boston

Good morning, Birdland!

We will might need Orioles baseball again in our lives at present after the annual headache that’s the built-in rain date for Opening Day. It’s seemingly a logistic necessity, but it surely does really feel like MLB’s execution of it may use some work.

For instance, each single workforce performed on Thursday. That was nice! We had baseball to look at for 12 hours straight from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. It received the juices flowing and my private pleasure for Orioles baseball was sky excessive. The ten-9 win over the Pink Sox made it even higher!

However that was dampened by a sparse and dense sport docket on Friday. I had gone searching for which sport would function background noise as I did a couple of afternoon duties to wrap up the workweek. My Orioles had been off, however absolutely there needed to be one thing to see on the primary Friday of a brand new season, proper?

Nope, nothing. Not till 6:40 anyway, then 8, after which three 10 p.m. first pitches. The league had 5 video games however none through the day and all of them stepping on one another within the night.

Maybe the league has executed some evaluation to make this set-up make sense. Nevertheless it simply appears odd to ramp everybody up for baseball on Thursday after which solely go away them hanging at the beginning of the weekend. That is the week the place diehards and casuals alike are each very a lot into the game. Seize that pleasure. Give individuals a purpose to skip work or faculty.

The league may make the most of stadiums which are extremely unlikely to expertise an Opening Day cancellation: these with roofs! Tampa, Texas, Miami, Houston, and Seattle all have roofs and hosted on Thursday. Their video games weren’t gonna get known as. Schedule them everytime you need for Friday too! Or do Opening Day on a Wednesday, then give half the groups off on Thursday, half off on Friday, everybody performs Saturday and Sunday.

Happily, we do have a full slate of video games at present, so my concepts can return within the can for the subsequent twelve months. The Birds are alleged to play the Pink Sox at 4:10 at present, however there may be rain within the Boston space this afternoon, so we’ll see if there’s a delay or perhaps a postponement. April baseball, child!

Hyperlinks

For O’s on first opening day roster, being collectively was one of the best half | The Baltimore Solar
These guys all love and care about every, and they’re finest associates. Signal all of them to 10-year contracts instantly, Mike Elias!

Might rain drive Orioles to rearrange how rotation aligns for early sequence? | Roch Kubatko
Springtime baseball is hard within the northern states, and it looks like the Orioles get rained out at Fenway within the first month of the season not less than as soon as yearly. Hopefully it doesn’t occur once more at present, however there’s a probability for precipitation all day lengthy, and I would favor a rainout to somebody getting damage.

Does Rutschman’s huge sport result in a giant 12 months? | Steve Melewski
So long as he’s wholesome, Adley Rutschman goes to be the sport’s finest catcher for the subsequent 5 years, not less than. He simply does the whole lot so nicely! Apart from attempting to take the additional base. He was unhealthy at that on Thursday.

Orioles birthdays

Is it your birthday? Blissful birthday!

• Keegan Akin is 28 at present. The lefty has hung out on the Orioles’ huge league roster for 4 straight seasons, making his debut in 2020. As soon as considered as backend starter, Akin has settled in as a center aid pitcher that’s able to going a number of innings when wanted.
• Wealthy Amaral turns 61. The utilityman wrapped up his decade within the huge leagues as a backup with the Orioles in 1999 and 2000.
• Mike Kinnunen celebrates his sixty fifth. Between 1986 and ‘87, he appeared in 27 video games out of the O’s bullpen.

Today in O’s historical past

2010 – The Orioles purchase infielder Julio Lugo from the St. Louis Cardinals.