Baltimore Orioles Baseball
BSL Orioles Roundtable – March 2017
As Opening Day nears, BSL's O's Analysts (Rob Shields, Zach Spedden, and Brandon Warne) come together to give some thoughts.(You can discuss this on the BSL Board here.)Question 1: The O's ended their 2016 season reaching the post-season for the 3rd time in 5 years....
Why Orioles fans should watch the World Baseball Classic
5 reasons for Orioles fans to watch the World Baseball ClassicThe long slow drudgery of winter is coming to an end. We know this because balls are popping gloves and bats are swinging with the Baltimore Orioles down in Sarasota, Fla.But as we prepare eagerly for the...
Orioles Roster Crunch Could Affect Mancini,Taverez, Santander
Only days into their spring training slate, it is apparent that the Baltimore Orioles will have some tough roster decisions to make. Depending on what the club decides over the coming weeks, some of the organization’s more notable prospects could either find...
Optimizing the Orioles Lineup
With a few new players in tow on offense, it’s almost a guarantee that Buck Showalter’s lineups are going to look a little different on a day-to-day basis in the 2017 season. And while the prevailing theory is that lineup construction doesn’t matter too terribly much,...
Recent Baltimore Orioles Acquisitions
Orioles Executive Vice President Dan Duquette has always had a knack for finding quality players to fill out his roster on the cheap. Joey Rickard was a perfect example of that last season as a Rule 5 pickup who gave the O’s a .696 OPS for the tidy sum of...
Tillman injury casts a dark cloud over the future
On Monday, pitchers and catchers reported to Sarasota, Florida to begin Orioles Spring Training. This is always a phrase that is music to the ears of baseball fans. We are starting to approach the end of winter, which means warmer temperatures and baseball will soon...
Baltimore Orioles All-Time Homegrown Lineup and Rotation
When looking through the Baltimore Orioles history, there are several ways to put together an all-time team. One would be to simply to take the best players at each position—regardless of how the Orioles acquired them—and assemble a lineup from that list. Another...
Know Your Enemy: Breaking Down the AL East Competition
With pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training camps this week, what better time to take a look at how the rest of the division handled their offseason this winter, and what the enemy -- all four of them -- look like heading into 2017?In 2016, the Orioles...