by Rose Katz | Aug 5, 2021 | Baltimore Orioles, Major League Baseball
On Monday, the Orioles started an AL East gauntlet to finish their season. Of their final 58 games, 38 will be against a divisional foe, accounting for 66 percent of their remaining matchups. They’ll play the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees nine times and have ten...
by Matthew Kory | Jul 30, 2021 | Major League Baseball
Yesterday was quiet time for the Orioles, but for every other team in the AL East and many other teams in baseball the 2021 trade deadline has been like making a cup of tea while jumping on a trampoline. While riding a horse. While on fire. There is still time for the...
by Rose Katz | Jul 16, 2021 | Major League Baseball
When you turned on the 2021 All-Star Game on Tuesday night, were you expecting two members of the Pittsburgh Pirates to be starting for the National League? In a lineup with stars like Fernando Tatis Jr. and Freddie Freeman, a pair of Buccos were also in the lineup:...
by Scott Lewis | Jul 4, 2021 | Major League Baseball, Sports Business
How fitting that the 10th edition of the Nationals annual 11am 4th of July game features the Los Angeles Dodgers. On paper, it provides Major League Baseball with a marquee national TV matchup for its MLB Network, featuring the defending World Series champions. It...
by Stephen Loftus | Jun 28, 2021 | Baltimore Orioles, Major League Baseball, MLB Draft
If you study statistics for any length of time, eventually you’ll run across the oft-repeated aphorism of noted statistician George Box. While similar sentiments pre-dated Box, he succinctly noted in a 1978 paper… All models are wrong but some are useful....
by Rose Katz | Jun 15, 2021 | Major League Baseball
When everyone previewed the NL West this season, the focus was only on three teams: the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres and the Colorado Rockies. This was a pretty reasonable decision, after all. The Dodgers were the defending champs and signed Trevor Bauer to...
