Baltimore Orioles Baseball
What is Jim Johnson Worth on the Trade Market?
Determining what a player will bring back on the trade market can be a very difficult exercise for a variety of reasons. Often these trades include a variety of MLB-ready talent, prospects, and organizational filler type players. Each of these types of players have...
Free Agent Target: Gavin Floyd
It's that time of year again: the Baltimore Orioles are expressing an interest in free agent and hometown guy Gavin Floyd. The Mount St. Joe's product is available after earning $9.5 million and receiving elbow surgery with the Chicago White Sox in 2013. Seeing a...
The Baltimore Orioles Winter of Dud
There’s been a good bit of early action this baseball off-season with several trades taking place, a few signings of quality free agents, and the Baltimore Orioles are nowhere to be found as all this takes place. Over the last week I’ve spoken to baseball analysts...
Free Agent Target: Matt Garza
O's fans should be familiar with Matt Garza, as the hurler spent three seasons with the division rival Rays. Over three years Garza threw 592.1 innings for Tampa Bay, posting an ERA under 4 in each of those seasons. Over almost 1200 innings in his career, Garza has...
The Orioles need to spend $115M+, or be willing to make larger changes
Last week MASN's Steve Melewski asked, "Dollars and sense: What is the right payroll for the Orioles?" My answer to that question is that the Orioles need to spend $115M on payroll in 2014, or being willing to make larger changes. (Other O's fans discussed Steve's...
A Review of Orioles Pitching Draft Picks
After seeing St. Louis and Boston achieve great success in October in part thanks to homegrown pitching talent, I decided to take a look at the pitchers that the Orioles have drafted over the last few years. Good pitching is very important, particularly in short...
Analyzing the Early Free Agent Market
Free Agency seemingly just started and already three players of note have signed on to contracts with new (or the same) teams. The interesting thing to consider about these free agent deals isn't so much where the players have gone, though that is intriguing, but...
BSL O’s Roundtable: Early Offseason Topics
There are already several rumors, possible trades, intriguing free agents, and much more swirling about early in the MLB offseason. BSL's O's Analysts took a look at a few of the hot topics people are talking about, and give their opinions on what the O's should...