by Matthew Kory | Feb 25, 2021 | Baltimore Orioles
Baseball is a beautiful game, and beyond that it’s easy to get caught up in the intricacies and analytics of the sport, what someone’s batted ball metrics look like, how a slider is breaking, how someone hits against lefties. Often though what sticks with us is when...
by Matthew Kory | Feb 18, 2021 | Baltimore Orioles
As fans we’re obsessed with hitting and pitching, but you don’t often hear about defense. Well, let me amend that. You do hear about defense, but you hear about individual plays, great plays, mistakes, but not about what is actually important on a season-wide scale,...
by Matthew Kory | Feb 11, 2021 | Baltimore Orioles
Last year I wrote a piece called Defining Success For The 2020 Baltimore Orioles. The piece was about what a successful season would look like for the 2020 Baltimore Orioles. Sometimes there is truth in advertising. That piece came out on February 29th and oh wow...
by Matthew Kory | Feb 4, 2021 | Baltimore Orioles
here’s a tried and true maxim when it comes to rebuilding teams. They’re where old pitchers go to die. OK, I just made that up, but it’s totally true. Yesterday the Orioles dealt Alex Cobb and $10 million to the Angels for Jahmai Jones, a speedy second base prospect...
by Matthew Kory | Jan 28, 2021 | Baltimore Orioles
This past Monday the Red Sox acquired reliever Adam Ottavino in a trade. Sounds totally normal, and it was except for two things. First, it was a trade between the Red Sox and Yankees and that doesn’t happen. It’s the second deal between the two teams since 1997....