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There are enough question marks surrounding the Baltimore rotation that they could use at least one more dependable arm.
The final week of spring training has arrived. That means a few tough roster decisions will need to be made soon, including in the starting rotation, where the Orioles will enter the season down two of their top arms.
Thankfully, the O’s have gotten good news on both Kyle Bradish and John Means recently. Bradish threw his first...
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The Bronx Bombers are seen as the favorites to dethrone the Orioles in the AL East thanks to the addition of Juan Soto.
No matter what’s in the baseball world outside of the Bronx, the greater baseball-loving public just can’t seem to quit the Yankees. The boys in pinstripes are coming off their worst season in over three decades, as 2023 saw them finish fourth in the AL East and miss the playoffs for the first time since 2016. Their 82 wins...
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Stowers has had a huge spring. Will it be enough to get him on the Opening Day roster?
Happy Monday, Camden Chatters! I hope you had a nice weekend. The weather was beautiful in the Baltimore area. It’s starting to feel like spring, which means baseball season is right around the corner.
Speaking of good weekends: Kyle Stowers. With the ascension of multiple prospects in the last year, the outfielder had fallen off the radar despite continuing to...
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A week from today, spring training will reach the end and the Orioles will have to figure out who’s making the team
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There are now just 11 days to go until Orioles Opening Day. For current Orioles, that’s Jordan Westburg days to go until the first game that counts. In older times, that’s a number that also belonged to Doug DeCinces, Luis...
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Burnes is on the bump, the kids are ready, and O’Hearn is leading.
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The Albert Suárez hype train has been derailed a bit this week. On Sunday, the righty managed to earn the win with four innings of work, but he also served up three runs in the process. Then on Friday he got knocked around to the tune of five runs on six hits, a walk, and three strikeouts over 2.1 innings. His ERA in the Grapefruit League is...
We are a little over half way through spring training with opening day for the Baltimore Orioles now less than two weeks away. Thus far, the Orioles top prospects have done nothing but perform beyond their expectations.
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The free agent signee is one of the best closers ever to play the game, but how well he fill the Félix Bautista-sized hole in the bullpen?
It’s no exaggeration to say that the expectations for the 2024 Orioles are the highest they’ve been in decades. And why not? Coming off a 101-win season and AL East title, the Birds’ roster seems just as strong, if not more so. The acquisition of ace Corbin Burnes has made the rotation a real force, even with...
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Many of the Birds’ top young talents took the field together — probably not for the last time — in yesterday’s Spring Breakout game.
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We’re now just 13 days from Opening Day, and yesterday brought a ton of spring training action for the Orioles. In their Grapefruit League contest, they won again, taking a 5-2...
BRADENTON, Fla. -- Paul Skenes made the most of his only inning of work in Thursday night's 3-1 win over the Orioles in the Spring Breakout game at LECOM Park. Baseball's top-ranked pitching prospect threw 11 pitches, including six at 100-plus mph.
Spring Breakout is a new concept from MLB, putting together a designated game for each team’s best prospects. Some of baseball’s most exciting players get to share the field at the same time and multiple enticing matchups are created.
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You can catch the Orioles prospect team playing Pirates prospects on MLB Network
The Orioles of the future are on TV tonight, as long as your TV gets MLB Network, anyway. MLB’s new Spring Breakout will play out over the next few days, with Orioles prospects getting the first featured prime time slot here. No surprise, because this is a loaded team!
Even the...
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Camden Chat’s yearly contest is here. Join in on the fun and you might just win
We are two weeks from the start of the 2024 baseball season, which means it’s time for our yearly pre-season contest. This time of year is always one for optimism but probably never more than this year. The Orioles won 101 games last year and took the AL East. They are poised to compete again this year.
Let this contest serve to prime you for all of the fun and...
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A team that didn’t do much mashing last season is the MLB leader in homers thus far in spring training.
I deeply loved Orioles baseball in the 2010s, but I have to admit, it was definitely a “three true outcomes” kind of era. With Oriole Park’s hitter-friendly dimensions, there was little semblance of a starting rotation; the lineup was full of people like Chris Davis, Mark Trumbo, Mark Reynolds and Nelson Cruz who launched bombs and struck...
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Can the Orioles’ recently acquired ace live up to the projections and expectations?
The Orioles became a contender by drafting well, acquiring young players, and developing talent from within. The club made a few low-risk trade and free agent acquisitions, but Mike Elias had yet to make a true splash move before this offseason. That all changed when the Orioles sent DL Hall, Joey Ortiz and the 34th pick to Milwaukee in exchange for Corbin Burnes.
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John Means also made progress, though timetables aren’t clear yet
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We are now just two weeks away from Orioles Opening Day! Or at least the scheduled Opening Day, because although no one wants to think about it, unfavorable weather is always a possibility. That’s 14 days to go, which in 2023 meant Shintaro Fujinami days remaining. Other wearers of 14 have included Nolan Reimold, Mike Bordick,...
The Baltimore Orioles are coming off a 12-8 win over the Tampa Bay Rays and are now 15-3-1 and have the best record in Grapefruit League play and that’s due in part to four of their top 100 prospects ranked by ITD.
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He won Rookie of the Year by a mile and established himself as a franchise cornerstone. Can Gunnar Henderson continue to improve in 2024?
You know there’s a lot of preseason buzz around your team when your most valuable player from the year before gets only a supporting nod in spring training storylines. It’s true: over the course of one year, the 23-year-old Gunnar Henderson shed the “MLB Top Prospect” label and moved...
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A new way to watch the O’s, the incoming roster crunch, and a clubhouse of pals.
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MASN announced something that might actually benefit Orioles fans on Tuesday. The regional sports network will be added to the streaming television service Fubo later this month.
The reason this would be good for Orioles fans is that is does give them an actual viable alternative. Whereas many of their current cable and satellite partners, like...
The Baltimore Orioles jumped out to an eight-run lead after two innings and held off the visiting Tampa Bay Rays 12-8 in spring training action on Tuesday in Sarasota, Fla.
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The promotion of Jackson Holliday, a new role fro Jorge Mateo and the jettisoning of some veterans should lead to big bump on defense and the basepaths
We collectively as members of Birdland placed a lot of emphasis this offseason on the upgrades to the pitching (or at times, lack thereof). Throughout spring training, we’ve all marveled at the impressive showing of rising stars like Jackson Holliday, Colton Cowser, Coby Mayo and Heston Kjerstad....