Baltimore Orioles Opening Day Roster: What We Know

The Baltimore Orioles Opening Day roster is slowly becoming clearer as reports continue to be released

As April 1st approaches, the Baltimore Orioles 26-man active roster for Opening Day has grown clearer, particularly over the past few days. This offseason, the team has completed trades, signed free agents, claimed players off the waiver wire, and lost players to waivers as well. Although they’re not projected to win many games, the roster shakeup has created an exciting new group of players for the Orioles to roll with this season.

Now well into their rebuild and sporting a top 5 farm system in Major League Baseball, the Orioles have a unique opportunity to field a heavily youth-skewed roster and allow their Major-League-ready prospects to grow and develop at the highest level without facing the scrutiny of under-performing on a team that is trying to win.

With Baltimore’s 2021 Grapefruit League season having ended with an 8-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday, the Orioles are now tasked with condensing their Major League roster down to 26 players, whether that be through optioning players, designating players who are out of options for assignment, or trading them away. The Orioles have already taken several steps towards this goal. Nonetheless, a few decisions still remain unsettled.

The team likely will not officially announce their entire roster until Thursday morning, prior to their regular season opener at Fenway Park against the Boston Red Sox. However, reports from around the Orioles have made portions of what the roster could look like a little more clear, namely the team’s starting pitching rotation.

Here’s what we know about the Orioles’ starting rotation to begin the season: