Time is winding down for Orioles spring training. The O\u2019s have just four days left in Florida before heading north for a pair of home-and-home exhibition games against the Nationals and then Opening Day. This afternoon the O\u2019s play their second and final spring game against the defending AL champion Blue Jays. They won\u2019t see them again until the end of May, two months into the regular season.<\/p>\n
Albert Su\u00e1rez is in desperate need of an effective start. Spring training stats don\u2019t mean everything, but his have been particularly rough \u2014 a 10.80 ERA in 6.2 innings \u2014 and when you\u2019re a roster bubble guy, that could make the difference between cracking the Opening Day roster or being left out in the cold. Su\u00e1rez is on a minor league contract, so it would be easy enough for the O\u2019s to simply stash him at Triple-A Norfolk if he doesn\u2019t make the team out of camp. Chances are we\u2019ll be seeing him at some point this season, so it\u2019d be nice if he can show he\u2019s still got something in the tank.<\/p>\n
A lot of Orioles regulars are making the trip to Dunedin for this one, including a number of guys who will be starting on Opening Day, though not necessarily at the same positions. Pete Alonso gets a partial breather as the DH while Ryan Mountcastle plays first, and Blaze Alexander is making the start in center field. If Alexander proves himself capable as an outfielder, that\u2019ll be a huge boon to the Orioles\u2019 bench.<\/p>\n
RF Dylan Beavers
C Adley Rutschman
DH Pete Alonso
1B Ryan Mountcastle
LF Colton Cowser
CF Blaze Alexander
2B Jeremiah Jackson
3B Weston Wilson
SS Jos\u00e9 Barrero<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time is winding down for Orioles spring training. The O\u2019s have just four days left in Florida before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630413,"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-630412","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\/116251523230297680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630412","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=630412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}