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The Orioles have not ruled out signing a veteran free agent for the rotation, but their choices are dwindling by the day. Baltimore could acquire a top arm via trade, but it's hardly a guarantee. Fans cannot fix up the O's and Marlins on a blind date regardless of how strong a match they appear to be. It's perfectly plausible that Mike Elias and…

Pitchers and catchers report next month. Somewhere in the middle of it. A long way from Opening Day on March 30 in Boston, but the distance is shrinking. The holiday themes are over unless I'm suddenly motivated by Valentine's Day. Nothing so far about Cupid's arrow, but I decided this morning to take a stab at some 2023 predictions. Here are five,…

There has been plenty of disappointment around Baltimore as the Orioles have not had an active offseason in what seemed like a make-or-break free agency for the future of the squad and the sake of the 2023 team. It especially seemed like an offseason where adding top-of-the-rotation pitching would be a primary goal for the team but that has yet to…

Over the past few seasons, MLB teams from across the league have been starting to lock up their young stars to long-term contracts earlier and earlier into their service time. In doing so, teams are avoiding going to arbitration with their top players and giving them guaranteed money through their prime years. Some players are receiving these deals…

The long winter is almost over. Orioles baseball will be back in our lives tomorrow, or if it really rains a lot in Boston tomorrow, then it'll be back on Friday. The best thing that can be hoped for this season is that baseball in general, and the Orioles specifically, can get back to having normal problems, instead of pandemic problems. The…

The non-tender deadline has just passed, leaving the Baltimore Orioles with a clearer picture of how their roster stands just before Thanksgiving. Given this deadline, I think it's worthwhile to take a look at the internal options on the Orioles 40 man roster for the starting rotation in 2023. After being used exclusively as a reliever in the…

Earlier this week, the Orioles added top pitching prospect Grayson Rodriguez and four other prospects to their 40-man roster to keep them protected from this year's edition of the Rule 5 draft. The team has added at least five players in this way in each of the last three Novembers. Do they have the prospect depth where they will be adding that…

Position: Starting Pitcher Throws: RHP Age: February 2nd, 1989 (33 years old) 2022 Traditional Stats: 30 GS, 181 2/3, 3.42 ERA, 167 K, 1.14 WHIP, 2.7 fWAR 2022 Advanced Stats: 22.4 K%, 6.6 BB%, 3.66 FIP, 3.46 xERA, 3.72 xFIP, 0.94 HR/9 When looking at this year's free agent class, you would be hard-pressed to find a more dependable starting pitcher…

With 24 wins in their last 33 games, the Baltimore Orioles enter their final 50 regular season games occupying an AL wild-card spot. Raise your hand if you saw that coming when they were nine games under.500 in early July. If you have your hand up right now, you're either affiliated with the Orioles in some way or a very, very bad liar. As unlikely…

That's it, the 2022 Minor League Season is over for each Orioles affiliate. Let's recap everything that happened. Norfolk Tides: 74-76 (12.0 GB) Bowie Baysox: 68-70 (didn't qualify in second half) Aberdeen IronBirds: 78-54 (runner-up in South Atlantic League) Delmarva Shorebirds: 49-81 (26.0 GB) FCL: 16-39 DSL Orange: 26-34 DSL Black:…

Saying goodbye to the team last night was full of mixed emotions. A little bitterness at having come so close to the playoffs just to finish 3.5 games out. A little anger that we couldn't impose our will on the dislikable Blue Jays. A little gnawing anxiety, scanning the faces of the players as they took the field for a collective hat tip to the…

They're going to toy with my emotions, aren't they? The Orioles won again last night, a 6-0 victory over the Houston Astros. It's their third straight win, and thanks to another loss by the Seattle Mariners, the O's are now just three games back of the final AL Wild Card spot. A tall task remains, and since the Mariners already took the season…

Ever since the 2018 Orioles saw their hopes evaporate before they even got out of the month of April, the biggest question there was for fans of the team was simple: When are these guys going to be good again? To the surprise of just about everyone's preseason expectations for the team, the 2022 squad gave us three good months in June, July, and…

The Orioles' 2022 playoff hopes might be on their last legs after yesterday's dismal doubleheader sweep by the Blue Jays. But there's still plenty to be excited about in Birdland, and much of it stems from a fruitful Orioles farm system that has churned out plenty of young talent throughout the year. We've already seen the impactful debuts of Adley…

Behind a masterful Kyle Bradish, who pitched seven scoreless innings, the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Cleveland Guardians 3-0 and continued their surprising quest towards the postseason in MLB. Who would have thought that a franchise that went 52-110 last season would have a positive record entering September just one year later? Not only that,…

The Baltimore Orioles have unexpectedly been one of the best teams in the American League this season. Despite that, the organization still traded away a few important players at the trade deadline but has continued to have success. The Baltimore Orioles entered the season without expectations of making the playoffs. The franchise had spent the…