Baltimore Orioles Baseball
Pitching from the Windup: Chris Tillman and Jake Arrieta
In the start of the 4th inning against the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night, Chris Tillman gave up a long double off the right field wall to Evan Longoria. It was the third ball hit with "home run distance" to that point in the game, the other two in fact leaving the...
Orioles’ DHs versus NL Pitchers: Who Has Hit Better?
As I was riding the train home today, I toggled my twitter feed and noticed the title of a thread over at Camden Chat: The Pitchers Outhitting the DHs Thread. I clicked on the link expecting to find some list of the Orioles' DH ineptitude versus pitchers, but sadly I...
Kevin Gausman Game Scouting Report
Kevin Gausman toed the rubber for the third time this season against the Erie SeaWolves (DET). I was in attendance again for the big and tall righty. If you did not read my Game Scouting Report from 4/12/13, I would encourage doing so before going any further. On this...
Bird Talk – Episode 24
In this episode of Bird Talk the guys talk about the Baltimore Orioles previous week of play along with their American League East counterparts, players who are struggling with the team right now, Tuck gives us some minor league updates, and they look to the week...
MLB Power Rankings Week 2
The week two MLB Power Rankings are here and some things are starting to normalize, somewhat at least. The Atlanta Braves are dominating everyone right now and there is absolutely no doubt that they are the best team in baseball currently. American League East...
Minor League Players of the Week: 4/8 – 4/14
Position Player of the Week: Wynston Sawyer - C .375/.444/.583 (9/24) with 3 2B, 1 3B, 2 RBI, 3 BB, 5 K (A-) Sawyer is repeating the South Atlantic League, but this is mainly due to not getting substantial playing time with Gabriel Lino and Michael Ohlman ahead of him...
Paper Orioles: Win Projections on 4/15/2013
So here we are, two weeks in. If you want a refresher on the models used in this post, be sure to go to the original post this year. It can be found here. Expected Wins by the Baltimore Orioles using Five Projections (4/15/2013) mJS PWE mBP Parcells fWAR 4/1/2013...
Arrivals and Departures on Orioles 40 man – 4/14/2013
Well, the Orioles made some more changes this past week to their 40 man roster, so we are in for another posting of Arrivals and Departures. If you want a quick primer, you will find it here. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me at...