Baltimore Orioles Baseball
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...
Who should win MVO this year?
As the Baltimore Orioles disappointing 2015 season comes to an end, it allows us to look back on an entire year and take a look at who could win the award for Most Valuable Oriole. Of course, this award doesn’t really mean anything but it’s an interesting debate...
Joseph, Wieters & Pitch Framing: A Q&A with Harry Pavlidis, Baseball Prospectus
For most of this year, the convention wisdom locally has been that the Baltimore Orioles would make a qualifying offer to Matt Wieters (that may or may not be accepted). Now in the last week of this 2015 season, it is more of a question of if the O's will make that...
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...