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Orioles Minor League Prospect Press
With pitchers and catchers reporting for Spring Training 2016, it’s time to take another look at some prospects in the Baltimore organization. If you follow the system, these names are everyday names that you’ve heard of. After spending extensive time reviewing the...
Three Non-Roster Invitees Worth Watching
A surefire way to tell you’re obsessed with baseball in a potentially unhealthy way is if you actively seek out Non-Roster Invitees to see who is headed where this spring. Additionally, I could easily lie to y’all and say I only did it for this piece, but it was the...
Five Prospects to Watch This Spring
The first indicator of the Baltimore Orioles’ prospects who could reach the majors in 2016 is spring training. Along with acting as test run for prospects on the 40-man roster and the non-roster invitees, the spring will provide an idea as to which players will...
The Wait-and-Sign Dilemma
The gears inexorably grind on the Yovani Gallardo and Dexter Fowler deals -- the latter requiring the former -- but everyone in baseball from Rosenthal on down remains convinced the deals will get done. And when they do, the Baltimore Orioles will have cultivated...
Putting the O in PECOTA – Hitters
It’s projection season in baseball, and as a fan one has to take the good with the bad. The good is that real, meaningful baseball isn’t too far off -- and even closer if you get excited about spring training -- and depending on where you live, nice(r) weather is...
How do the O’s compare to the rest of the AL East?
Last year, the Orioles finished with an 81-81 record, which was good enough for third place in the AL East. They finished 1 game ahead of Tampa and they were well behind NY and Toronto. They were 4th in the division in runs scored, last in starters ERA and first in...
Can The Farm System Improve?
A lot has been said over the last few weeks about the Baltimore Orioles’ farm system, and virtually none of it has been positive. Analysts across the baseball spectrum—including on our own pages—have bemoaned the system’s lack of depth, and questioned the logic behind...
Alvarez, Fowler, or Bruce?
It’s as close to certain as can be at this point that within the next few days, the Baltimore Orioles will sign Yovani Gallardo and forfeit the 14th overall pick in the MLB draft. Perhaps not what I would have done, given god- or video-game-like control over the...