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Donnie Ecker, who was part of the Texas Rangers’ coaching staff from 2022 until about six weeks into the 2025 season, is reportedly being brought on board by new Baltimore Orioles manager Carlos Albernaz to be the new bench coach for the A’s. Ecker was hired away from the San Francisco Giants, where he had […]
The story of the 2025 Orioles is as much about who didn’t play because they were hurt as much as it is about how well players played when healthy. Grayson Rodriguez represents this idea taken to its most extreme. He is a pitcher who the Orioles and fans were counting on to at least be […]
The Orioles are in a position where they must improve the top of their starting rotation. If they aren’t willing to trade prospects or young players to do it, spending money is the only way. That’s a bad place to be. High-end free agent starting pitchers are expensive and risky bets. They might get hurt. […]
Good Morning Birdland, No one would ever describe the pace of MLB’s offseason as “break neck.” Teams take their time assembling their rosters, and there is no single time period where moves happen in a flurry. Pre-Thanksgiving tends to be particularly slow. However, this lull in actual moves does give us all the potential to […]
The story of Trevor Rogers in 2025 is so incredible that it requires us as fans to overcome disbelief in a way we’ve never been asked to before. In his relatively short time with the Orioles, he had always been terrible. It was hard to imagine a world where he wouldn’t be terrible. And then, […]
Good morning, Camden Chatters. MLB awards season has arrived, and the disappointing Orioles, of course, will not be involved. The top three vote-getters for each award were announced a week ago and included no Orioles. And don’t expect to see any Orioles receive even a single down-ballot vote for any award, other than AL Cy […]
Adam Jones played center field for almost all of his time in Baltimore, but the Orioles Hall of Famer moved to right field on August 10, 2018 to make room for Cedric Mullins. Jones encouraged Mullins to lead the team out of the dugout, and O’s skipper Buck Showalter praised Mullins as the right guy […]
Happy Monday, Camden Chatters! I hope you had a nice weekend. When it wasn’t raining, the weather was quite lovely which I will always take in November. In baseball news, the Arizona Fall League is chugging along. It will finish up on Saturday with a championship game. Over the weekend, they had the Fall Stars […]
Following the news of Walt Weiss’ promotion to manager, the Atlanta Braves have continued to announce changes to the coaching staff. Up next, the club hired Tony Mansolino as third base coach and J.P. Martinez as bullpen coach. Mansolino, 43, previously served as the third base coach of the Baltimore Orioles for five seasons, until […]
Good morning Birdland, Orioles fans now have a new person to get mad at when Adley Rutschman slumps. His name is Dustin Lind, and he is set to become the Orioles hitting coach. The 37-year-old was the assistant hitting coach with the Phillies the last two seasons. Prior to that, he was director of hitting […]
When Jeremiah Jackson arrived in the Orioles organization as a minor league signing around this time last year, there was not much fanfare. At that point, he was a 24-year-old who had never made it above the Double-A level and his most recent season with the Mets did not suggest he was on the way […]
When a reliever makes you hold your breath every time he enters a game, but still somehow records outs, is it still “relief” pitching? Ha. Ha. OK, but how should we estimate the value of a flamethrowing lefty who hits 98 on the radar gun, strikes out hitters in bunches, and also has an ERA […]
Good morning, Camden Chatters. The MLB offseason is starting to take off. Yesterday marked the fifth day since the end of the World Series, which is the deadline for teams to exercise or decline options on players who have them, and the first day in which they’re allowed to sign free agents from other teams. […]
The Mets have claimed infielder Ji-Hwan Bae off waivers from the Pirates and left-handed reliever José Castillo off waivers from the Orioles, and infielder Nick Madrigal, who spent the 2025 season with the Mets but on the injured list, has elected free agency. Bae was convicted by a South Korean court of assaulting his then-girlfriend […]
The Orioles announced their 2026 season schedule for promotions and giveaway items on Thursday afternoon. This is getting a much earlier start on the schedule compared to what the team has done recently. Each of the last two seasons, they did not do the announcement until January. The initial announcement about these items and dates […]
With the 2025 Texas Rangers season having come to an end, we shall be, over the course of the offseason, taking a look at every player who appeared in a major league game for the Texas Rangers in 2025. Today we are looking at relief pitcher Jacob Webb. Jacob Webb was non-tendered by the Baltimore […]
As the Orioles set out to reshape their bullpen this offseason, one veteran lefty seems to have a spot sewn up. The O’s just need to make sure they don’t move him out of his comfort zone. Nearly 10 years after he was drafted, Keegan Akin is the longest tenured pitcher in the Orioles organization, […]
Hello, friends. There are now 140 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day 2026. We will get a bit more clarity today on the shape of the free agent market, as today is the deadline for teams and players with contract options to make decisions about those options. It’s also the deadline for teams to extend […]
Thanks to the needs in the rotation, the bigger names at play there, and the nature of Chicago Cubs bullpen construction (read: less sexy), I have neglected to lay out explicitly the bullpen situation for the Cubs entering this offseason. Now that Andrew Kittredge has been sent back to the Orioles , the following Cubs relievers who threw 20+ innings in 2025 are still under team control: Daniel Palencia Porter Hodge End of list. It’s one thing to say that the Cubs always fin...
The Pittsburgh Pirates are marking their calendars as the spring training schedule has been revealed. Here’s a look at the team’s schedule: The team’s first game for Spring Training takes place on Saturday, Feb. 21 on the road against the Baltimore Orioles in Sarasota, Fla. The team’s first home game comes the next day when […]
For this writer, the lowest point of the 2024 season was hearing the news that Kyle Bradish needed Tommy John surgery and would be out for the rest of the season. It took him 14 months to recover from the elbow surgery, but when he finally toed the rubber again in black and orange, Bradish […]
It was no surprise when the Orioles began trading off their assets at the trade deadline this year. Out of contention and with a fair number of players approaching free agency, it only made sense. But when news broke that they had traded Ramón Urías to the Astros, it was a little confusing. For one, […]
Good Morning Birdland, The offseason is just getting started, but O’s GM Mike Elias has already been active. Tuesday was a busy one. The team officially introduced Craig Albernaz as their new manager, they reacquired reliever Andrew Kittredge from the Cubs, and it was reported that two of their coaches from 2025 had found jobs […]
The offseason is just days old and Mike Elias has just done the first real notable move to the Orioles roster. The team announced on Tuesday afternoon that they have acquired reliever Andrew Kittredge from the Cubs. That would be the same Kittredge the Orioles traded to the Cubs in July. In July, Kittredge cost […]
The Cubs acquired Andrew Kittredge from the Orioles at last July’s trade deadline for minor leaguer Wilfri De La Cruz, who has yet to play in North America (he was with the Cubs’ Dominican Summer League team). Kittredge played well for the Cubs in his two months on the North Side, posting a 3.32 ERA […]