Baltimore Sun beat reporter Eduardo A. Encina answered your Orioles questions for more than an hour today. By this time next week, Encina and Dan Connolly will be knee-deep in Winter Meetings muck, trying to decipher what's actually going on in the lobbies, bars and meeting rooms in Nashville. The clock is also winding down to Friday's deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players, and the Orioles must decide whether to tender contracts to 14 players on their 25-man roster.

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