The Orioles dressed early Wednesday in their home white uniforms and filed onto the field for the annual team photo.

The media has its own yearly tradition – scanning the clubhouse and noting which players are going to be missing from it.

Here’s a reminder of the Opening Day roster:

Starters
Trevor Rogers
Kyle Bradish
Shane Baz
Chris Bassitt
Zach Eflin

There aren’t as many disruptions here. Eflin underwent ligament-reconstructive surgery on his right elbow after one start, but he’s stayed with the team. He still has his locker.

Dean Kremer was optioned at the end of camp but would have gotten into the picture if the Orioles didn’t trade him to the Twins. Bassitt made his second start Wednesday night since his reinstatement from the injured list. He wasn’t away on a rehab assignment.

Brandon Young didn’t make the club out of spring training, but he’s been with the Orioles since April 24. He got the call when Kremer went on the injured list with a strained quadriceps.

Left-hander Cade Povich was optioned last week.

Relievers
Ryan Helsley
Yennier Cano
Dietrich Enns
Rico Garcia
Yaramil Hiraldo
Anthony Nunez
Grant Wolfram
Tyler Wells

Helsley is on the injured list for the second time, but he isn’t ready for a rehab assignment. He isn’t ready to throw in the bullpen, or throw in the towel. He’s with the team, waiting for clearance to move along his progression, and in the photo.

Wells was in a surprising trade to the Rays. He’ll return to Camden Yards this weekend after surrendering two home runs against the Orioles Monday night at Tropicana Field.

Enns was outrighted to Triple-A Norfolk on May 31. His season hasn’t gone as expected after he signed a $2.625 million contract in November with a $3.5 million club option. He had a 3.14 ERA last season in 17 games with the Orioles but lost his high-leverage job this season.

He’s made 23 appearances with the Tides and posted a 6.75 ERA, lengthening the odds that he’ll be added to the roster later this month or in September.

Nunez was optioned in spring training but included on the Opening Day roster after Keegan Akin went on the injured list. He was optioned twice during the season and remains with Norfolk.

Hiraldo really has bad timing. He made the team out of spring training, went on the injured list after three appearances, was recalled Aug. 1 and optioned Friday.  

Akin had elbow-reconstructive surgery and isn’t here. Andrew Kittedge began another Orioles season on the IL but he made it back in plenty of time.

Félix Bautista reported to the ballpark yesterday to throw and let the Orioles check him out before he goes on a rehab assignment. I checked the back row of the photo, where he’d have to stand, and he wasn’t in it.

Catchers
Adley Rutschman
Samuel Basallo

Oops.

Rutschman was traded to the Red Sox at the deadline and hit his first home run Tuesday. That’s a big subtraction.

It could have been worse for photo purposes.

Basallo was at Double-A Chesapeake Tuesday night on an injury rehab assignment, but he arrived at Camden Yards the next day, did some hitting, joined his teammates on the field and was reinstated from the IL.

The photo also will show Carlos Narváez and Yohel Pozo. The Orioles have tied the franchise record of seven catchers, set last year, with Sam Huff, Chadwick Tromp and Jake Rogers also on the roster at various times.

Infielders
Pete Alonso
Ryan Mountcastle
Blaze Alexander
Gunnar Henderson
Coby Mayo
Jeremiah Jackson

Jackson is an unfortunate exclusion. He was optioned Wednesday for the second time this season. He didn’t make the photo, though the roster move was announced long after the session.

Alexander is on the injured list with a non-displaced fracture in his left hand and is expected to begin a rehab assignment by next week, but he’s with the team – all smiles and fist-bumps in the clubhouse.

The challenge with Alexander was having him stand still long enough for the photographer to snap some pictures.

Jackson Holliday began the season on the injured list after undergoing surgery in spring training to remove a broken hamate bone. He was reinstated on May 18.

Mountcastle isn’t as fortunate. He fractured his left foot, was set to play in his first rehab game at Norfolk and strained his oblique. He was with the club briefly but moved his rehab to Sarasota. He visited with teammates during the trip to St. Petersburg.

Outfielders
Dylan Beavers
Colton Cowser
Tyler O’Neill
Leody Taveras
Taylor Ward

Ward was traded to the Mariners. He didn’t make it through the season after the Orioles acquired him from the Angels for Grayson Rodriguez.

The on-base machine is off the team.

Christian Franklin was acquired from the Nationals at the deadline and replaces Ward in left field and in the photo.

Other newcomers include relievers Alex Hoppe, part of the return for Ward, and Cam Sanders, acquired from the Pirates for cash considerations, and infielder Christian Encarnacion-Strand, acquired from the Reds for cash considerations. The shuttle was pointed in the right direction for relievers Albert Suárez and Josh Walker. They were in the photo.

Let’s take a moment to remember infielder/outfielder Weston Wilson, outfielders Johnathan Rodríguez and Michael Siani, catcher Maverick Handley and pitchers Trey Gibson, Nick Raquet, Cameron Foster, Cameron Weston, Jose Espada and Lou Trevino III.

The decision to keep three catchers cost Jackson his roster spot. It also left Holliday as the only second baseman until Alexander is reinstated.

Can the Orioles make it through this stretch without needing another roster move or getting dangerously creative?

Hey, if Taveras can play third base …

OK, Henderson made three starts at second in 2022 and six in the minors, but slide him over in an emergency and someone’s got to play shortstop.

Kicking around ideas in the press box brought us to Franklin, who’s never played the infield but is an exceptional athlete.

One player nominated Encarnacion-Strand but also mentioned Taveras cause, well, why not?

That same player suggested that Holliday stay healthy.