Baltimore Orioles Baseball
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!...
Baltimore Orioles: March 2020 Top Prospects 15-1
Zach Spedden, Bob Phelan, and myself continue our series ranking the Orioles Top 30 prospects. You can find our previous article on numbers 30-16 here. You can hear us discuss the Top 30 on our On The Verge podcast. (You can discuss this on the BSL Board here.) 15) OF...
On The Orioles and the Coronavirus
Writing from home means you don’t take the city bus too often. Today was an exception. I volunteered at my son’s school and that meant taking the bus downtown and then back again. The group was a large one, probably 30 or so kids and they all played, grabbed, and...
Did The Orioles Have To Tank?
When the Orioles hired Mike Elias and put him in charge of the team, it was pretty clear which direction he would take the team. It’s like hiring a cheetah to run a deli. You know what’s going to happen, and you can’t really be upset when it all goes down. Elias came...