Opening Day is 25 days away. For now, spring training games continue. The Orioles bring a 4-4-1 spring record into Sunday\u2019s contest against the Red Sox. This one will air on TV and radio in the Baltimore area, or wherever you are in the world as long as you can access MASN or WBAL\/98 Rock from there.<\/p>\n
The Orioles starting pitcher for this game is Chris Bassitt, making his first appearance in an organized spring game. He is, I believe, the last of the expected rotation pitchers and competitors to get into a game.<\/p>\n
This is an extremely \u201croad game in spring training\u201d lineup. If you were projecting out the Opening Day starting lineup a month ago, probably only three of these guys were in it: Basallo, Beavers, and Cowser. And depending on how manager Craig Albernaz chooses to handle his outfield veterans, maybe only one or two of them will actually play on Opening Day.<\/p>\n
Alexander wasn\u2019t even in the organization a month ago. If he had been, I would have said he only plays if there are enough injuries ahead of him. As we know, there have been enough injuries ahead of him. Kjerstad is not likely to make the roster unless there are injuries also. Or unless he really, really convinces the front office that he\u2019s in a better place than last year.<\/p>\n
At least the lineup has a couple of cool prospects in Bradfield and Estrada. It\u2019s nice that the game will be televised and we can actually see a little bit of these guys in action. Or you can, anyway, I\u2019ve got errands to run and probably won\u2019t get to watch much. Oh well. Post some comments about how Estrada looks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening Day is 25 days away. For now, spring training games continue. The Orioles bring a 4-4-1 spring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,76458,2538,5,4,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-600291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimore-orioles-game-information","11":"tag-baltimoreorioles","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116155526958845476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}