TommyPickles

I think Grayson looks like he's going to be really good, actually. He's got some of the best stuff I've seen in an Oriole uniform for a while. Now Austin Voth? Yea, I'd say "total ass" is fair.

I like that different parks have different dimensions. It is one of the idiosyncrasies of MLB that help spice up a 162-game season. That being said, they should probably move the wall in a little...

It's not my favorite home run celebration around MLB this season, but I'm glad to see the players having fun. The "Long Dong Bong" and "Lord Walltimore" are two terms that would make no sense to an O's fan a couple years ago. Now they're just part of seeing a game at Camden Yards lol

Interesting. I didn’t know that.

The thing that stood out to me the most was the new pick off rule. Frazier drew two pickoff attempts. Then, because of the new rules, he was able to take a ridiculous lead and steal 2nd without even bothering to slide. To me, this seems like it could have a bigger effect than it indended to. The percent of time catchers successfully throw out runners is going to fall dramatically. At least we've got a superstar catcher and two of the best base-stealers in baseball to take advantage of these new rules.

Yea maybe. I see it more as taking some pressure off. Like alright kid, today we just want you to focus on hitting and soak it all up. But I guess it depends on how he feels about it.

I like the lineup. Smart to let Gunnar ease into his first Opening Day as a DH, and have Urias/Mateo/Frazier each play their best positions.

It would be kind of funny if, after an entire offseason of speculating about lineups, rosters, platoons, and what not, the O's just swung a major trade hours before opening day. "Jorge Mateo and Austin Hays to the Dodgers" or something like that.

I'm excited for the City Connect jersey. It has been fun watching other teams release them over the past couple years. The Nationals one, with the cherry blossoms, looked really cool.

87 and they claim the final AL Wildcard spot.

I've been reading for months how, if you squint hard enough, and if he bounces back from last year, and if he plays some outfield, Adam Frazier makes this team a little better. As someone who is pretty high on both Urias and Vavra. And as someone who absolutely wants to see Westburg and Ortiz in the bigs this year... I'm already sick of Frazier and the season hasn't started yet.

Wells this is a bummer

There were times last year that Bradish looked like the most talented pitcher on the team. Also, it will be cool for Grayson to make his debut in his home state of Texas.

I'd realy like to see Stowers get a shot before we move on to Cowser and Kjerstad.

Mexico could have used Ramon in that loss against Columbia. It was Luis Urias' 10th inning error at 2B that cost them the game. Our boy, Ramon makes that play everytime. Excited to watch Urias this year. He's one of my favorite Orioles.

It was also cool to see Danny Valencia batting cleanup for Team Israel.

I think Dean Kremer will lead the O's starting pitchers in WAR in 2023. I think he should start opening day. It'll probably be Gibson, though.

I think Boston is going to be awful this season.

I mean this makes sense. I want to see Gunnar, Mountcastle, and Urias in the infield regularly.

I'm bummed Urias isn't playing. He's the first Mexican to win a Gold Glove in decades... I was excited to watch him and his brother man the infield together. And it definitely seemed like he wanted to play. I'm assuming this is just the O's being extremely cautious because of his knee injury at the end of last season.

That's interesting. I didn't realize that. Honestly, I kind of wish it wasn't this way. I'd rather see a "this is our computer's best guess of what will happen" rather than "this is the average of what our computer thinks could happen." Not that it really matters, I guess.

I think 28% chance of a playoff birth sounds about right. I'm a little more hopeful, but that's my orange colored glasses. What doesn't sound right is all five teams in the AL East being within 9-10 wins of each other at the end of the season. I don't see it. I think someone is going to win more than 89 games. I don't think Boston is going to win 79 games.

I think people are just annoyed because the Frazier signing feels emblematic of other frustrating trends with this organization over the past two years. -People were fed up with how many at bats Odor got last season. -People are fed up with how poorly stop gap players like Chirinos, Owings, Aguilar, Phillips, and Odor played last season. -People are dissapointed we opted to make marginal off-season moves and maintain a below average payroll, after coming so close last year and being led to believe there would be more money spent. -People are tired of waiting for prospects and are worried this signals further delays. But I do agree with @Frobby that a lot of ink has been spilled over this frustration.

4, 3, 1, 2

Lots of good points. But no one wants to commit an answer to the question: who will have a higher OPS in 2023, Mateo or Frazier?