Baltimore Sun 14 hours ago
IronBirds have new manager, coaches for 2022 season
The Aberdeen IronBirds, Class High-A Affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, has their player personnel staff set for the team’s 20th season. With only 76 days left until Opening Day, fans can begin to get excited as anticipation builds with this recent announcement.
BaltimoreBaseball.com 22 hours ago
Spring training to-do list for the Orioles’ Mike Elias
Officials for the players association and Major League Baseball met twice this week to discuss economic issues related to the Collective Bargaining Agreement. While a new agreement isn’t imminent, it looks closer than it did a week ago. MLB hasn’t set a deadline for when an agreement needs to be reached for spring training camps […]
Baltimore Sun 22 hours ago
Oriole of the Day: DJ Stewart walks the walk, but struggles in other aspects
Orioles outfielder DJ Stewart’s late-season home run binge in 2020 couldn’t be recaptured in a full 2021 season, as he was largely limited to a platoon and pinch-hitting role before undergoing season-ending right knee surgery.
BaltimoreBaseball.com Jan 27, 2022
Orioles’ minor league hires have interesting backgrounds
Last month, the Orioles announced the addition of two batting coaches — Matt Borgschulte and Ryan Fuller — neither of whom played in the major leagues. Borgschulte never played professionally at all. The team’s trend of hiring coaches and managers without major league playing experience was illustrated again on Wednesday when the Orioles announced their […]
Baltimore Sun Jan 27, 2022
Orioles targeted ‘humility, growth mindset and collaboration’ to build expanded minor league, development staffs
A lack of ego, a desire to improve and a willingness to work together were traits the Orioles targeted as while building their staffs at each affiliate, in addition to the baseball-related skills needed to develop players once the fourth full season of Baltimore’s rebuild begins.
Baltimore Sun Jan 26, 2022
Orioles announce 2022 minor league coaching staffs, with Buck Britton named Triple-A manager
The Orioles’ desire to turn around their success at the major league level is built around developing talent in the minor leagues, and Wednesday, the organization announced the men and women who will be largely responsible for that in 2022.
Baltimore Sun Jan 26, 2022
Orioles to get rent credit for $3.5M cost of left-field wall project as lease talks continue
The Baltimore Orioles expect that it will cost up to $3.5 million to reconfigure the left-field wall at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, money that will be deducted from their rent over the next few years.
BaltimoreBaseball.com Jan 26, 2022
Orioles name Britton as Norfolk manager; Kyle Moore goes to Bowie; Mercado, Alou go to Aberdeen, Delmarva
Buck Britton, who managed many of the Orioles’ top prospects at Double-A Bowie the last two seasons, will move up to Triple-A as the manager of the Norfolk Tides, the team announced on Wednesday. Britton, who played seven seasons in the Orioles’ organization, was Low-A Delmarva’s manager in 2018. Kyle Moore, who managed High-A Aberdeen […]
BaltimoreBaseball.com Jan 26, 2022
Thoughts about the Hall of Fame and the Orioles
Oriole fans had little stake in Tuesday’s Hall of Fame announcement. The only two with Oriole ties on the 30-player ballot were Curt Schilling and Sammy Sosa, who had only brief runs here and weren’t expected to be elected. David Ortiz, who hit 55 home runs and drove in 176 runs in 247 games against […]
Baltimore Sun Jan 26, 2022
Oriole of the Day: Dillon Tate flashes relief capabilities in first full major league season
The lone piece remaining from 2018′s Zack Britton trade, Dillon Tate has repeatedly shown the potential to do what Britton once did: convert from a well-regarded starting prospect into an effective and trusted late-inning reliever.
BaltimoreBaseball.com Jan 25, 2022
Janet Marie Smith talks about 30 years of Camden Yards
It’s hard for Janet Marie Smith to believe that it’s been 30 years since Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened. Back then there was no park like it and, in many ways, that’s still true. Smith had joined the Orioles in 1989 when they were still playing in Memorial Stadium. As the team’s vice president […]
Baltimore Sun Jan 25, 2022
Oriole of the Day: Jorge Mateo finally offered glimpse of potential in Baltimore stint
Jorge Mateo’s first stint with the Orioles was brief but exhilarating. Once ranked the New York Yankees’ top prospect, Mateo got his first run of extended major league playing time with Baltimore and thrived, only for a back injury to cut the showcase short.
BaltimoreBaseball.com Jan 24, 2022
Major League Baseball’s labor dispute is hurting the game
Spring training for the Orioles is scheduled to begin in just over three weeks, February 15th, in Sarasota, Florida, and an on-time start isn’t looking promising. Since Major League Baseball locked out its players on December 2nd, the sides have met once by Zoom this month when the owners made a new proposal. The players […]
Baltimore Sun Jan 24, 2022
Oriole of the Day: Keegan Akin’s roller-coaster 2021 season makes his place in rotation uncertain
In 2020, left-hander Keegan Akin became the first major league arrival in a wave of pitching prospects the Orioles’ front office inherited from the previous regime, but he pitched inconsistently when with Baltimore in 2021.
Baltimore Sun Jan 21, 2022
Orioles’ latest minicamp features top 6 position player prospects, several major league coaches
As part of a series of minicamps throughout the month at their Sarasota, Florida, complex, the Orioles have their top six position player prospects at a weeklong camp staffed by manager Brandon Hyde, among others.
