Backstops back each other in backup quest
SARASOTA, FLA. — Chance Sisco and Austin Wynns have long been cast against each other in their climbs toward major league catching roles, and nothing about that has changed as they vie each day in the Sarasota sun to make the Orioles’ Opening Day roster to back up Caleb Joseph.
Selected in the same 2013 draft class when the Orioles took four catchers with their first 11 picks and set themselves up for life after Matt Wieters, Sisco was the precocious prep star put at the position to maximize the value in his left-handed bat. Wynns was a senior signing out of Fresno State with a good glove and not much offensive projection.
They’re just as different off the diamond as they are on it, but that’s mattered little since. Each has made