Making a few assumptions with Orioles

Making a few assumptions with Orioles
The amount of speculation that piles up during an offseason reaches such heights that no device can be invented to measure it. The only response is to learn how to distinguish it from fact. What is truth as opposed to an assumption. What comes from actual sources as opposed to imaginations. What's read between the lines instead of the actual lines. No one with the Orioles is offering confirmation, but it isn't too risky on this date to expect the following: Austin Hays will play center field...

Catching up on the Orioles' catching situation

Catching up on the Orioles' catching situation
The five questions that I posed about the Orioles last week were just a launching point. We can't stop at Chris Davis, the Rule 5 draft, protected players, non-tender candidates and the shortstop position. Let's move behind the plate. Without the risk of taking a foul ball off the groin. Do the Orioles bring in another veteran catcher? They signed Jesús Sucre as a free agent on Feb. 5, finally got him into camp after some work visa issues in Venezuela and brought him north. He didn't make...