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Happy Monday, Camden Chatters! The slow march of the offseason continues. We wait for the Orioles to make a move that involves players rather than coaches. For now, at least, they haven’t fallen behind other teams as it’s really too early for big moves. There has been some contract news in the majors. If you […]
Hello, friends. There are now 130 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day 2026. The Orioles coaching staff for next season continues to come together. O’s reporters, including MASN’s Roch Kubatko, revealed two more names for Craig Albernaz’s 2026 staff yesterday. The latest newcomers are Miguel Cairo, a 17-year MLB veteran who was most recently interim […]
Good morning Birdland, The GM Meetings took place in Las Vegas this week. No major moves were announced, but plenty of rumors have come out since. If these reports are to be believed, the Orioles have taken a rather aggressive posture heading into this winter. They want to rectify what went wrong in 2025, and […]
The offseason for the Orioles has officially begun, with Mike Elias once again making grand proclamations about Baltimore’s commitment to winning and how that will shape the O’s offseason. Atop Elias’ offseason wishlist, once again, is a “front-line starting pitcher.” Two years ago, the Orioles’ GM filled that need with the biggest move of his […]
Good morning, Camden Chatters. MLB’s hot stove has yet to start cooking. There have been no major trades or free agent signings of note in the less than two weeks since the World Series ended. This week’s just-concluded GM meetings in Las Vegas failed to produce any kind of news, but since The Baltimore Banner’s […]
Replacing Félix Bautista is no easy feat. The Orioles’ mountainous All-Star closer — who is likely to miss the entire 2026 season, just as he missed all of 2024 — has gigantic shoes that are hard to fill. Just ask Craig Kimbrel, whose 2024 experience in Baltimore turned into a boondoggle. Or Keegan Akin, who […]
Hello, friends. There are now 133 days until Orioles Opening Day 2026. The start of spring training is much closer, as we’re now less than three months away from when World Baseball Classic-participating pitchers and catchers are set to report. The offseason is kicking off with president of baseball operations Mike Elias saying a variety […]
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 […]
How spoiled are we that a season in which Gunnar Henderson posted a 121 OPS+, stole 30 bases, and was worth 5.3 bWAR, it feels like a disappointment. That is simply the result of the standard he created with his MVP-caliber 2024 effort, a bar he fell well short of this past summer. Henderson had […]
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 […]
Hello, friends. There are now 137 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day. If you prefer a shorter countdown, today marks three months until WBC-participating pitchers and catchers (if any Orioles are doing so) report to Sarasota for the start of spring training. We’ve gotten a bit of minor Orioles-related news over this weekend, minor because […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
If a player on a losing team gets traded at the deadline, but is then reacquired three months later, were they ever really traded at all? Well, yeah, but getting them back makes the whole deal look like an absolute steal. It seemed as though the Andrew Kittredge era with the Orioles had ended back […]
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 […]
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 […]