Baltimore Orioles Baseball
Zach Clark Added To 40-Man Roster
Zach Clark is the newest addition to the Orioles 40-man roster. Clark, 29, has pitched in the Orioles organization for seven years without much buzz. He's always put up solid numbers for the most part, and finished the 2012 season at 15-7 with a 2.79 ERA with Bowie...
Orioles Approach to Free Agency: Catcher
You can find the introduction to this series here. The Orioles have one of the best catchers in the league in Matt Wieters. Eligible for arbitration for the first time this offseason, he's under team control for 3 more years. Because the Orioles held him in the...
Orioles Approach To Free Agency
Free agency in Major League Baseball begins 6 days after the World Series ends. Since the World Series ended on Sunday night with a Giants sweep, the beginning of free agency this year will start at 12:01 am on Saturday, November 3. After the Orioles successful 93...
The Two Biggest Free Agent Decisions the Orioles Have to Make
Raise your hand if you thought that the Detroit Tigers would be swept by the San Francisco Giants in the World Series when the matchup was officially announced. Yeah, me either. Now that the World Series is officially over all eligible players become free agents and...
2012 Orioles Prospects “On The Cusp” List
Below are some prospects that just missed my top 30 list, or need some improvements and experience before they are considered. The thoughts and views shared are a combination of my personal experiences and the reports and views given to me by sources within the...
Will the Baltimore Orioles Coaching Staff Remain Intact?
There are currently three teams (Colorado Rockies, Miami Marlins, and the Toronto Blue Jays) without a manager at this point in the year, two of which fired their managers and another that traded theirs to the Boston Red Sox for a utility player. In examining those...
Baltimore Orioles Roster Review: Bullpen
The Orioles bullpen was, by all accounts, much improved over 2011. That's not saying too much, but I think it's best if we let these cherry-picked statistics do the talking: Team ERA (MLB) - 5th (3.00) Team fWAR (MLB) - 5th (6.4) Team WHIP (MLB) - 5th (1.21) Team WPA...
Matt Wieters: Expectations and Reality
The Baltimore Orioles All-Star catcher, Matt Wieters, is arbitration eligible for the first time in his career and my prediction is that he will earn somewhere between $3.5 and $4.2 million dollars. It’s possible that he could earn a bit more than the $4.2 million but...