Baltimore Orioles Baseball
2020 MLB Draft: An Update
The 2020 MLB Draft is rapidly approaching. As of May 1st, we stand 40 days from the June 10th start date. Now, much has changed over the past month in terms of draft preparation, talent evaluations, and the draft structure itself. All of this change has of course been...
The Verge: Episode 4 – Impact On Minor League Prospects
The Verge is hosted by Bob Phelan, Zach Spedden, and Nick Stevens. In this episode, the guys look at the impact of COVID-19 on the Minor Leagues. The lost development time for prospects. The questions that exist. They also give thoughts on the 2020 June Draft. Follow...
The Best All Time Orioles Seasons at Every Position (Infield)
I started writing this piece a few weeks ago and life was upside down then. It’s been rolled over several times since. The point either way though is that there is no sports and there won’t be sports for a while. The absence of sports now though doesn’t mean we all...
What is the effect of COVID 19 on the Orioles?
Right now, the USA is as a standstill as we fight the CVID 19 pandemic. Part of the destruction left in the path of this virus has been the hit it has taken on pro and college sports. MLB is weighing many different scenarios as to how to start the season, if one can...
Orioles: Dissecting The Catching Situation
I never bought into the old saying of “bad baseball is better than no baseball.” I certainly didn’t believe that last summer while watching the Baltimore Orioles dive head first into a second-straight 100 loss season. Now, with very little hope of having the...
Major-League ETAs for DL Hall and Grayson Rodriguez
As the top two pitching prospects in the Baltimore Orioles’ farm system, DL Hall and Grayson Rodriguez are important to the organization’s rebuild. Both players, however, still have some time to go in their development, leaving questions about when they could...
Orioles: All-Sleeper Prospect Team
Before the sports world was brought to an abrupt pause, we at Baltimore Sports and Life’s The Verge podcast published our pre-season list of Top 30 Baltimore Orioles prospects, which proved to be an exciting look into a farm system quickly on the rise. You can find...
The Next Orioles Playoff Roster
Given an infinite timeline anything is possible. My cat will use the litter box. Condensed milk will smell like cheese. I will leave my house. Even the craziest of the crazy, the most unfathomable of the unfathomed, will happen: the Orioles will make the playoffs!...