Good morning, Camden Chatters.

The first major move of the MLB hot stove season dropped yesterday, with the Mariners re-signing first baseman Josh Naylor to a five-year, $92.5 million deal. That news doesn’t particularly affect the Orioles, who had no need for Naylor with first basemen Ryan Mountcastle, Coby Mayo, and (sort of) Samuel Basallo already occupying the roster, though I suppose it takes the M’s out of the running for a potential Mountcastle trade.

In other news, the 2026 ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame was revealed yesterday, and among the 12 newcomers is one who is very familiar to Orioles fans: longtime right fielder Nick Markakis, the O’s-drafted and developed star who spent nine years in Baltimore and six in Atlanta. (Yesterday was Markakis’s 42nd birthday, s

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