News out of Sarasota for the Baltimore Orioles today was more of the same as we saw at various points last year. Mike Elias announced this morning that Jackson Holiday would miss Opening Day with a broken hamate bone in his finger. Jordan Westburg is also working through a strained oblique, and will miss the beginning of Grapefruit League play. He’s not expected to miss any regular season games at this time.
The silver lining is that last part – that Westburg isn’t expected to miss any time in the regular season (at this time). It’s more concerning on a large-scale basis given the number of injuries this franchise sustained in 2025. And even before. Holliday’s injury was sustained a few weeks ago taking live BP.
You have to hope this is the extent of injuries this spring. If so, it’s a non-story. Blip in the radar. The other option is that maybe the Orioles need to look into their training programs. Jackson Holliday with a broken bone during BP – those things happen. But Westburg with the oblique…is there something wrong with how the Orioles are training? Because this sort of thing happened a lot last year.
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