Baltimore Orioles Baseball
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...
3 Up, 3 Down – April 18, 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...
On the Verge: Pitcher List, Check It Twice w/ Ben Palmer
Zach and Bob welcome Pitcher List and fellow Baltimore Sports and Life writer Ben Palmer onto the show to discuss the first week of baseball from a fantasy perspective as well as one based on reality. How have the Orioles starters looked the first time through the...
Using Orioles in Daily Fantasy (DFS)
For those who don’t know, one of my main beats as a writer is making MLB DFS picks. One of the challenges new DFS players face is setting aside their rooting interests to make potentially profitable choices. As you might expect, selecting Orioles every day is a recipe...