by Brandon Warne | Jan 15, 2016 | Baltimore Orioles, Major League Baseball
With three big offensive free agents remaining — outfielders Yoenis Cespedes and Justin Upton as well as, of course, Chris Davis — and just five weeks left until spring training opens, it’s beginning to come down to crunch time for these players and their...
by Jonathan Bernhardt | Jan 11, 2016 | Baltimore Orioles, Major League Baseball
Does it matter that almost everyone else’s bullpen is better?In the AL East, that is. It’s possible that every team in the AL East has assembled a better bullpen for the 2016 season than the Baltimore Orioles have managed thus far.(Discuss this article here on the BSL...
by Jonathan Bernhardt | Dec 11, 2015 | Baltimore Orioles, Major League Baseball
The Orioles didn’t do what they needed to do at the Winter Meetings in order to build a team good enough to compete in the 2016 AL East — but they didn’t do the things that could have stopped them from becoming that team in the first place, and sometimes that’s...
by Gary Armida | Nov 16, 2015 | Baltimore Orioles, Major League Baseball
We crave certainty; we like knowing–or believing that we know–what’s coming up next. Change scares most people. While most people put up the pretense of liking change, most would rather settle in to the expected. Change in sports is even scarier....
by Jonathan Bernhardt | Nov 16, 2015 | Baltimore Orioles, Major League Baseball
There might be something of a fire sale going on in Atlanta.After dealing top closer Craig Kimbrel to the Padres last year and elite shortstop Andrelton Simmons to the Angels just a week or so ago, FOX Sports national writer Ken Rosenthal reported that a source...
by Jonathan Bernhardt | Nov 9, 2015 | Baltimore Orioles, Major League Baseball
So the Orioles need starting pitching.That’s not really news — everyone in the league needs starting pitching except possibly the New York Mets, to some degree or another. But a quick look at the numbers Baltimore starters put up last year (or a quick trip down...
