The path to success for the 2024 Orioles is built on a variety of assumptions, a few of which are that players who were hurt in different ways over the course of last season will be able to come back looking more like the best versions of themselves. Mark puts Cedric Mullins, John Means, and Dillon Tate in this category and talks through his hopes and worries for each. In a mailbag segment, an explainer of the qualifying offer process and what might have to happen for Means and Anthony Santander to be QO-worthy players.

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