What happened? The Orioles hit six home runs, setting a team Opening Day record in a 12-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays before 40,734 at Rogers Centre on Thursday.

Jorge Mateo’s recovery from last August’s Tommy John surgery is complete, and he’s on the Orioles’ Opening Day roster.

Question: Would love to hear your thoughts on what the O’s season record and finish in the standings will be, biggest disappointments and biggest positive surprises.

It has been suspected for weeks that the Orioles would start the season Thursday without two cornerstone members of the team’s youth movement, but the temporary absence of shortstop Gunnar Henderson and starting pither Grayson Rodriguez isn’t exactly the end of the world.

The Orioles don’t have to set their roster until noon on Thursday.

When I debuted the Bird Tapes nearly a year ago, I had a shoebox full of plastic microcassettes containing recordings of rare interviews with figures from the history of the Orioles.