Baltimore Orioles Baseball
Down on the Farm: April 26, 2022
Welcome to ‘Down on the Farm’, a minor league spin-off of my weekly article ‘3 Up, 3 Down’. Every week I will highlight the three hottest and three coldest players in the Orioles minor league system from the previous week. Hopefully this will help in keeping track of...
On the Verge: Hamstrings and Elbows
Zach, Nick, and Bob discuss how you can listen to their interview with Mike Elias early before it drops with episode 100 in a couple weeks (hint: sign up for the Patreon) before diving into the latest stories of the minor league season. They also dive into the injury...
3 Up, 3 Down – April 25, 2022
Welcome to ‘3 Up, 3 Down’, the weekly column breaking down the three hottest and three coldest Orioles players based on their performance during the previous week. It has proven to be an interesting exercise and good opportunity to highlight the highs and lows of a...
10 Men On Fire
While Orioles pitching has vastly outperformed expectations, their 4-8 record is right on the 54-win pace we all accepted *before* sitting down to watch the 2022 product. All along, the plot of this story is about growth, and most of that growing is meant to happen...
Analyzing Bruce Zimmermann’s Early Season Success Through Statcast
Yes, I know he has only pitched 9 innings so the sample size here is small, but hey, those 9 innings were pretty impressive. I’m going to hope I don’t jynx Zimmermann’s next start by writing an article about this, but here we go. In Zimmermann’s early-season scoreless...
Strong Starts For Zimmermann and Tate
Back in July 2018, the Orioles officially entered their rebuild with a trade deadline fire sale. Manny Machado, Jonathan Schoop, Zack Britton, Kevin Gausman and Darren O’Day were all traded, stripping down a core that had won 89 games in 2016. Now in 2022, two of the...
Down on the Farm – April 19, 2022
Welcome to ‘Down on the Farm’, a minor league spin-off of my weekly article ‘3 Up, 3 Down’. Every week I will highlight the three hottest and three coldest players in the Orioles minor league system from the previous week. Hopefully this will help in keeping track of...
On the Verge: The Season Is Young w/ Brandon Young
Zach, Nick, and Bob welcome AA Bowie Baysox pitcher Brandon Young onto the show to talk about his journey from undrafted free agent in the shortened 2020 MLB draft to being one of the Orioles top pitching prospects. After that the guys break down the first two weeks...