by Brandon Warne | Jun 8, 2016 | Baltimore Orioles
A major pitching chip was cashed in as the San Diego Padres flipped James Shields — and potentially somewhere around $30 million — to the Chicago White Sox for pitcher Erik Johnson and prospect infielder Fernando Tatis Jr.Shields has been talked about...
by Paul Sporer | May 31, 2016 | Baltimore Orioles
The experts didn’t have the Orioles playing this well. Not a single one of the more than 40 staffers at FanGaphs (myself included) had them in the playoffs for 2016. So to be sitting at 28-21, just two games behind the Red Sox has got to feel good. Perhaps the biggest...
by Chris Stoner | Jan 22, 2016 | Baltimore Orioles
In Kevin Gausman, Chris Tillman, Miguel Gonzalez, and Ubaldo Jimenez; the Baltimore Orioles have four existing options for their 2016 rotation. What is to be determined, is who will join that quartet as the 5th starter?(You can discuss this article on the BSL Board...
by Chris Stoner | Jan 18, 2015 | Baltimore Orioles
The phrase, “I like our guys,” was seemingly a mantra for Baltimore Orioles Manager Buck Showalter during the 2014 season. Weeks before Pitchers and Catchers arrive in Sarasota for the start of Spring Training, how should we currently view the O’s...
by Rob Shields | Dec 14, 2014 | Baltimore Orioles
This has been a very disappointing season in Birdland thus far. We saw the teams MVO leave for Seattle, we saw our best reliever leave for NY and we saw our fan favorite leave for Atlanta. On top of all of that, Dan Duquette’s name has been mentioned as a...