As the club began finalizing its opening day lineup plan, Orioles general manager Mike Elias made numerous announcements conveyed by Rich Dubroff, including Baltimore Baseball. The most notable of these announcements is the Starry Sky Field Gunnar Henderson The season will be opened on the 10-day injury roster. Additionally, Elias announces Southpaw Cade Povich Will be the club’s fifth starter, opening this season with veteran travelers Albert Suarez Take the role of bullpen.
News about Henderson is a tough blow as the star young man is on the otherworldly 2024 campaign, where he finished fourth in the stacked AL MVP course. A.281/.364/.529 (155 WRC+) batsman in 159 games last year, Henderson paired this excellent offense with 21 stolen bases and was on the way to the shortstop’s 8.0 FWAR/9.1 BWAR movement. With his 24th birthday still three months old, fans around Baltimore and Major League Baseball have been looking forward to seeing how Henderson took place last year in his breakthrough campaign, although now at least at the time would be in trouble.
Fortunately, Elias told reporters that the club still hopes his absence is due to intercostal pressure that has made him occupy most of the training in spring training, which should be relatively short. Henderson will miss at least seven days as he needs to be placed on the 10-day injury list on the opening day, and can review up to three days, but Elias’ comments seem to show that the club expects he won’t miss more than the minimum time. The Oriole can be seen when Henderson fails Jackson Holliday In shortstop, thus Ramon Urias.
Another option might be a utility person Jorge Mateohe spent the spring recovery from elbow surgery. Oriole’s Brass has previously expressed doubts about his ability to prepare for opening day, but Elias pointed out this morning that the club has not ruled on the possibility of marrying the club completely. Mateo has experience with Diamonds, but played the vast majority of the time in the shortstop Grand Slam, which will give him a relatively seamless replacement for Henderson’s replacement early in the season. Of course, Mateo only hit 0.229/.267/.401 in 68 games last year, and it can’t provide anywhere on the offensive explosion Henderson offers.
At the same time, Elias also announced that the club’s fifth starting situation has been resolved. Left-handed Povich will join right-handed Charlie Morton,,,,, Tomoyuki Sugano,,,,, Dean Kremerand Zach Eflin Suarez received a long-term relief role in the rotation that began this year, opening his 2024 campaign before eventually getting laid off due to injury. It’s an exciting opportunity for Povich, who made his debut with the Orioles last year and scored 16 starts, despite his 4.79 FIP effort to hit a 5.20 ERA with a 79 2/3 innings. However, he looked pretty good in spring practice, with 3.07 ERAs in four games across the camp and hopes to move that momentum forward into the regular season.
Povich’s time in the rotation number can only last until Grayson RodriguezAbsent due to inflammation of the elbow. The 25-year-old Righy appears to have made progress in the progress back from the issue, although Baltimore-flagated Andy Kostka warned that Rodriguez started “close to zero” in his game. This suggests that the right person will need more or less the full spring workload, and then he can return to the spin even after the camp has made two starts earlier, which seems likely to make at least four or five turns before Rodriguez approaches the return.
