Baltimore Orioles Baseball
The Orioles’ Four Lineups
With the MLB season just a few days away, talk among the fanbase is heating up about real actual baseball topics. Instead of things like service time people are discussing lineups and rotations and the like. My goal is to go through and identify the most optimized an...
Steve Pearce’s Mechanical Changes
We've all thought about it at some point this offseason. There's no way that Steve Pearce can maintain the offensive performance that he put up last season, right? I mean, he came out of the blue and crushed the ball on his way to being the best hitter on the team....
Can the Orioles Continue to Raise Attendance?
From 2007-2011, fewer than 2 million baseball fans had annually passed through the gates on Eutaw Street. Since, the team has tacked on more fans every year, with over 2.4 million returning to the Yards in 2014. Bringing fans back to the stadium has been important to...
Should Bundy be traded?
With the 4th pick in the 2011 MLB Draft, the Orioles passed on a chance to take the player many thought was the best player in the draft, Anthony Rendon, and instead took Dylan Bundy. Bundy was known as a polished high school pitcher who had top of the rotation...
AL East Infield Comparison
April 6th and Opening Day is coming ever closer for the Baltimore Orioles. Following their 2014 AL East Title, how do the O's currently compare vs. their fellow Divisional foes?We will start our comparisons with a look at the respective starting...
Should the Orioles sign Rafael Soriano?
Dan Duquette has been pretty up front about the idea that the team wants to add another pitcher to the bullpen. There are not a lot of guys left out there but one that is potentially intriguing is Rafael Soriano.(You can discuss this on the BSL Board here.)Soriano has...
Making the Most of Everth Cabrera
Why do you sign Everth Cabrera?It’s certainly not because of his exemplary moral character. American professional sports teams don’t traffic too much in morality -- there’s too much money involved. It’s a fundamentally amoral stance, which gets lauded as progressive...
J.J. Hardy’s Lost Power
It's awfully early in Spring Training for heavy questions. That didn't stop Peter Schmuck from laying one on the Orioles' recently extended shortstop:J.J. Hardy pondered the hypothetical question longer than most professional athletes might.If he had not spent most of...