MLB
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...
The Slog: Baltimore vs. the AL East
The bad news is obvious: the 2015 Baltimore Orioles, so far, aren’t anything like last year’s 96 win squad. The good news is also obvious, and is just bad news for other people: neither is any other team in the AL East.(Discuss this post on the BSL forums...
Keeping Up With the AL East, May 8-15
The first games have been played at Camden Yards since the White Sox series, and the Orioles made national headlines by compensating their hourly employees for the shifts they missed due to the cancellations or postponements of six games in Baltimore that week, but...
Keeping Up With the AL East: April 24 to May 7
Things are finally getting back to normal in Baltimore -- or some facsimile thereof -- and early season spate of divisional play is nearly coming to a close. Here are the standings through Friday morning:NY Yankees1811.621-Tampa...
Keeping Up with the AL East, April 17-23
Early-season divisional play continues, and it wasn’t as fun a week as it could have been for Baltimore. The bad news is the Orioles are in last place in the East going into Friday’s action. The good news is: Boston97.563-NY Yankees97.563-Toronto97.563-Tampa...
Keeping up with the AL East, April 5-16
Keeping Up with the East, April 5-16This is the first installment in a weekly feature following the performance of each AL East team besides the Orioles in the preceding week, then looking forward at what they’re facing in the week to come. Know thy enemy, after all....