Even for a dogged Orioles pessimist like me, Opening Day is a time for optimism. The team’s record is a blank slate and anything could happen this year. Maybe a lot of those things will even be good. The O’s aren’t starting off the season at full strength thanks to Jackson Holliday and Jordan Westburg’s injuries, but they’ve got an almost entirely new starting rotation from last year’s disaster and they’ve added two 30+ home run threats in the aftermath of last year’s unfortunate home run outage.
It’s going to be a tough slog to get through what’s expected to be a challenging AL East to make it back into the postseason. Nothing that can be done about that now but for the Orioles to play the best they can over their 162 games, starting with the first one today.
In an Opening Day special episode of the podcast, I’m trying to find something to be optimistic about every player on the Opening Day roster (and injured list). Some are easier than others. You can listen below and see how I did:
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What are YOU feeling optimistic about as this 2026 season begins?
