Predicting winners for the most interesting roster battles at Orioles spring training

For the most part, the eight Orioles position players who will trot onto the field for opening day in Boston on March 30 are known. There’s plenty of carryover from last season’s team, the one that broke out of a rebuild to push for an unlikely postseason place late into the year.

This is what it feels like for the rebuild to be over, as executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias declared earlier this month. There are fewer starting positions available, the open tryout feeling at spring training dwindles, and more established names walk the clubhouse.

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