Baltimore Orioles

Banner Baseball Show co-hosts Paul Mancano and Jon Meoli discuss how Baltimore will handle injuries to Gunnar Henderson, Andrew Kittredge and Grayson Rodriguez.

In less than two weeks, the Orioles will be playing their final exhibition game ahead of the regular season at Nationals Park. Here’s who looks good in Sarasota, Florida.

Baker spent his offseason trying to make his changeup, which has held him back the last two seasons, a more consistent pitch in the strike zone.

It’s not ideal for Hyde or the Orioles, considering all that has gone into making Holliday a strong second baseman. But it’s a contingency plan with Gunnar Henderson’s status for opening day uncertain.

On April 12 against the Toronto Blue Jays, the Orioles will play in orange pants and orange tops, harkening back to the days of a pitching staff with four 20-game winners: Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar and Pat Dobson.

Although the shorter left field wall may lead to greater power numbers for pull-side righties such as Ryan Mountcastle, the left-handed hitters have as much to gain from a more friendly dimension.

It shouldn’t take a crisis, real or perceived, for the value of someone like Kremer to be apparent.

Rodriguez will be shut down from throwing for a week to 10 days, and after that he will begin a throwing progression.

Will Baltimore look externally to bolster a pitching staff rocked by the absences of Grayson Rodriguez and Andrew Kittredge?

The news comes amid a flurry of recent injuries for the Orioles, although the others are far less serious.

I just have a feeling that this is going to be a wall-of-worry situation, where the obstacles and reasons for the Orioles to falter keep piling up and they push higher anyway.

Rutschman is looking for improvement after a season in which his opposite-field approach and line drive rate declined.

Jones was acquired from the Seattle Mariners in 2008 and became a five-time All-Star who ranks near the top in franchise leaders for hits (fourth), homers (fifth), runs batted in (fifth), runs (fifth), doubles (seventh) and games played (eighth).

“He just wasn’t feeling real up to himself,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “And today he showed a little bit of tricep soreness.”

The largest question surrounding Mayo has been where he can fit in. There’s little question the Orioles want to fit him in somewhere.

Rodriguez threw 33 pitches in 1 1/3 innings before he was pulled and, after his second start of spring training, he said he felt sluggish and had trouble commanding the ball.

“It was something I was trying to be stubborn through, which was stupid of me, but I got a mattress topper and I feel much better," Westburg said.

Since Holliday arrived in Sarasota for Orioles spring training, he has looked like a player poised to break out

In the next few weeks, the Maryland Stadium Authority will add speakers to Oriole Park’s center field scoreboard as a stopgap fix to the notoriously bad sound system.

The forecasts are for Henderson to be in the same neighborhood as last year in some senses, but not all.