MLB
The Choice to Re-sign Chris Davis Is Not a Choice
The long and short of it is that the Orioles need to re-sign 1B Chris Davis, and barring a massive drop in his market value, such a contract would almost certainly be the biggest free agent outlay in franchise history. But if the rest of the league is sane, and if...
3 Strikes: The Process
One of the most used terms in today’s sports vernacular is “The Process”. Often mistaken for coach-speak, the term actually has more value than its overuse may indicate. Organizations with a clear process tend to do better for the long term. Otherwise, organizations...
Four on the Doorstep: A Baltimore Guide to the Championship Round
The media executives, one imagines, are of mixed feelings.On the one hand, Toronto and Kansas City in the American League Championship Series is traditionally underwhelming, from a ratings perspective. They didn’t want both Texas teams to make it -- after all, an...
3 Strikes: On Baseball Tradition
One of the synonyms for the word tradition is “unwritten law”. That seems to go quite nicely with baseball. The word “tradition” is almost synonymous with baseball. Major League Baseball is the one sport that centers its marketing around its history. It sells people...
Is Rick Peterson’s Time Up?
The time has come for the Orioles to make hard choices -- but the first choice they make may not be especially hard, nor may it even be much of a choice.If recent reports from ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick and FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal are true, it is time for the Baltimore...
The Trade Deadline and the Orioles
So ends the most exciting trade deadline in years, and with it, the Orioles’ realistic shot at the AL East division title.Perhaps that’s a bit presumptive. After all, there is a lot of baseball left to play, and there’s still time for both the Yankees and the Blue...
What If the Orioles Burned It All Down?
The Baltimore Orioles are 3.5 games out of first place in the American League East going into the second half of the season, well within the hunt for one of the two Wild Card spots, and a generally strong team with some key performers that can hope to get a bit better...
Keeping Up with the AL East: June 12
We’re going to start doing these a little more infrequently, if only because it’s hard to come up with various different ways to say the same things about four teams who haven’t really changed their narratives much at all over the first third of the season. And as the...