Baltimore Orioles Baseball
The Curious Handling of Kevin Gausman
The 2015 season will long be remembered as "The Start". This was the year that the influx of young, dynamic talent came to the Major Leagues and made a difference. Kris Bryant, Carlos Correa, Kyle Schwarber, Francisco Lindor, Miguel Sano, Corey Seager, Carlos Rodon,...
Another Off-Season Plan For The Baltimore Orioles
The 2015 World Series has ended, and thus every Major League Baseball team has the sole focus of preparing for next year.As the Baltimore Orioles year ended some time ago, there have been a number of suggested plans across the net for how the O's should operate this...
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...
Baltimore Orioles Talk: Counting Down To The Beginning of Free Agency
The 2015 World Series will begin a week from today, October 27th in either Toronto or Kansas City. Free Agency will begin 5 days after the end of the World Series. If the Series were to go 7 games, Game 7 would be November 4th.So, even if you have little confidence in...
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...
How Should The Orioles Approach Their Off-Season?
The playoffs are just getting started but Orioles fans are in full-blown off-season mode. With that in mind, many people are throwing their hat into the ring and being “internet GMs” and are discussing what they would do this off-season in terms of building the team....
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...
Comparing The O’s To The AL Playoff Teams
The Baltimore Orioles 2015 season ended with the O's finishing 81-81 overall, 12GB of the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East, and 5GB of Houston for the AL's 2nd Wild Card.Tomorrow night, the Astros will travel to New York to face the Yankees in the AL Wild...