With this afternoon’s game, the Orioles spring training season in Florida will be over. There are two more exhibition games to be played in Baltimore and in Washington, but those are not part of the Grapefruit League. The O’s bring a 10-13-3 record into this one, with two games that were canceled due to rain. Good thing spring training record doesn’t matter for anything, right? Right.
It does not seem that the Orioles are all that concerned in getting a final tune-up start for one of their regular
season starting pitchers with this game. The team announced yesterday that the starter for this game will be prospect Levi Wells. Okay then. Good luck to him.
One thing I’m interested in today is whether the Orioles say anything more about Dylan Beavers’s knee discomfort. The outfield prospect was scratched from the starting lineup in yesterday’s game due to something in his right knee. If that’s more than a day-to-day situation, he might be starting the season on the injured list, which would certainly shake up all of the roster projections.
That may have been announced in the time between when I got this article scheduled and when it goes live. I thought I’d be able to get the relevant pre-game information into here before I had to leave the house and that has turned out not to be the case. Apologies also that there’s no starting lineup in here. I believe in your ability to find out that information elsewhere. If there’s bad news about Beavers, panic as appropriate in the comments. Or if there’s good news, celebrate as appropriate! Or if there’s no news, be uncertainly anxious as appropriate.
This game will be airing on MASN in the broadcast area, as well as on the flagship radio stations of 98 Rock/WBAL 1090 in their broadcast radius.
