by Patrick Dougherty | Feb 25, 2015 | Baltimore Orioles
As Orioles players report to Sarasota for spring training, discussion turns to possibility and hope. Gone are the cold winter days wrought with worry of a front office exodus. The questions surrounding the team, ones that used to concern leadership and contracts and...
by Chris Stoner | Feb 23, 2015 | Baltimore Orioles
Baltimore Sports and Life reached out to MLB Writers and Analysts from various local and National outlets to gauge their opinions on a number of O’s related topics.It should be noted that several people who participated in this survey elected to keep their...
by Rob Shields | Feb 21, 2015 | Baltimore Orioles
For the last few years, the Baltimore Orioles have been looked at as overachievers, in part because the preseason projection systems have, in the eyes on some Orioles fans, slighted the team. The one system that seems to draw the ire of Orioles fans the most is...
by Jonathan Bernhardt | Feb 18, 2015 | Baltimore Orioles
It could be another good year in Baltimore.I’m not one for picking the Orioles to do well; for one, it goes against my ingrained instincts as a fan from the early part of this century, but as an analyst there’s a specific sort of team I like — lots of balanced...
by Patrick Dougherty | Feb 16, 2015 | Baltimore Orioles
Batters rarely learn the strike zone suddenly and on the fly. Fangraphs has previously shown that O-Swing% correlates highly from one year to the next, something that I have confirmed and expanded upon. Nearly 65% of the variation in 2014 O-Swing rates across Major...
by Rob Shields | Feb 15, 2015 | Baltimore Orioles
As I type this, it is about 15 degrees outside and the wind chill makes it feel even colder. Weather like this can’t help but make you think about how you can’t wait for winter to be over and spring to begin. Well, my unofficial start to spring comes this week, when...
