by Matthew Kory | Oct 22, 2020 | Baltimore Orioles
Lost in the Mookie Betts show and the Red Sox still stunning decision even eight months later to rid themselves of him, is the success of the Tampa Rays. The Rays are the modern day Billy Beane A’s, a team that has vaulted themselves past competitors who routinely...
by Matthew Kory | Oct 1, 2020 | Major League Baseball
This baseball season is so strange that if it were a duck it wouldn’t be a different colored duck or a slightly larger duck or a duck with polka dots. It would be a giraffe. No baseball season in history has been stranger in form and function than what we’ve...
by Matthew Kory | Sep 24, 2020 | Baltimore Orioles
Building a consistently good bullpen is hard. Relievers are notoriously mercurial in their abilities and health so achieving consistency and quality over a multi-year period from a bullpen is like asking your five-year-old to share his candy with his brother. It’s...
by Matthew Kory | Sep 18, 2020 | Baltimore Orioles
Building a baseball team is complicated. Because everything is interconnected, doing something somewhere can have consequences for other parts of the ball club. One of the easier examples of this is defense, and that’s fortunate because that’s what this article is...
by Matthew Kory | Sep 10, 2020 | Baltimore Orioles
About the best possible way to date your article is to start with a score, so I won’t. Suffice it to say the Orioles are in contention for a playoff spot. That’s mostly due to the enlarged playoffs this season, but hey, when things are enlarged that’s usually bad, and...
