Baltimore Orioles Baseball
Reviewing FanGraphs’ Trade Value Series
Each year Dave Cameron does a top 50 Trade Value series where he takes a look at the most trade-able assets in Major League Baseball. Dave started this series in 2005 over at U.S.S. Mariner, and set forth the criteria way back then: A. Salaries matter. Would you...
Bird Talk – Episode 37
In this week's episode of Bird Talk the guys discuss the Baltimore Orioles being 10 games over .500 going into the All-Star Break, speculate on the trade values of certain Orioles, give their picks for Most and Least Valuable Orioles, and even make some...
Ryan Minor on Delmonico, Walker and Ohlman
About 17 years ago, Ryan Minor began working his way through the Orioles' minor league system and would go on to play four years at the big league level. These days, Minor is managing the High-A Frederick Keys of the Carolina League. Minor has overseen three position...
Prospect Watch: Kemp, Mancini, Severino
(Discuss this article on the BSL Message Board here) Jeff Kemp - 2B Bowie native drafted in the 33rd round this year out of Radford. Stands at 6'00", 190 lbs. Possibly a little growth left into his frame, although he probably is what he is. Defensively, average to a...
Minor League Players of the Week: 7/8 – 7/14
NOTE: My Orioles Top 30 Midseason Prospect List will be out by the end of the week! (Discuss this article on the BSL Message Board here) Position Player of the Week: Henry Urrutia - OF .500/.500/.636 (11/22) with 1 2B, 1 3B, 4 RBI, 0 BB, 2 K (AAA) Hammerin' Hank...
Don’t Be a Slave to the Save
With the Orioles leading the Blue Jays 8-5 with two outs in the ninth inning on Friday night, Orioles manager Buck Showalter brought in his closer Jim Johnson. This being a save situation, this was a perfectly logical decision, right? The game was in the balance...
Adam Jones Strike at History
Friday night I was listening to the Glenn Younes show coming back from an errand. It was at the moment where Adam Jones hit his three run home run leading to Younes to do his best pro wrestling chat radio takedown of all of the supposed fans who dare to question Adam...
Deals that Never Happened, Part III
In the previous versions of this series I discussed the infamous non-trades in the middle of the 1996 playoff run where, perhaps, Peter Angelos made better decisions than Pat Gillick as well as a decent decision to rescind the Aaron Sele contract and the unfortunate...