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Elias on Kjerstad's absence from fall instructional league

Elias on Kjerstad's absence from fall instructional league
The opening today of the Orioles' fall instructional league camp in Sarasota, Fla., brings 55 players to the complex for workouts and perhaps games versus other teams in the area. However, this year's first-round draft pick, outfielder Heston Kjerstad, didn't make the trip. Kjerstad is unavailable due to an undisclosed "medical non-sports related reason," according to executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias. The other five draft selections are in camp. The reduction in activity...
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Comparing Mountcastle to Goodwin

Comparing Mountcastle to Goodwin
Ryan Mountcastle had 14 multi-hit games after joining the Orioles on Aug. 21. We knew it was a special achievement. The Orioles public relations crew has explained why. The season summary distributed to the media tells us that only one player in club history had more multi-hit games in his first 35 - the immortal Curtis Goodwin with 17 in 1995. Goodwin made his debut on June 2 and was incredible. He produced multiple hits in 10 of his first 11 games, going 21-for-43 (.489) with - wait for this...
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Brocail and Flores won't return to Orioles coaching staff

Brocail and Flores won't return to Orioles coaching staff
The offseason work conducted by the Orioles has moved past the 40-man roster today and impacted two coaches. The Orioles aren't going to bring back pitching coach Doug Brocail and third base coach/infield instructor Jose Flores, according to multiple industry sources. Potential candidates have not been determined and no other changes are coming to the staff at this time, per a source. Brocail was hired in January 2019 as the replacement for Roger McDowell, who served on former manager Buck...
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Zooming past players in 2020

Zooming past players in 2020
The removal of media from the clubhouse in 2020 reduced players to images on a laptop screen. Better than just a voice on the other end of a phone call, but a wall that prevented real connections. The weeks spent in spring training provided the only interaction, and there were no introductions, one-on-ones or scrums with starter Jorge López and reliever César Valdez, who became prominent members of the pitching staff. López didn't arrive in the organization until Aug. 9, when the...
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Phillips outrighted to Triple-A Norfolk

Phillips outrighted to Triple-A Norfolk
The latest maneuver by the Orioles to create room on the 40-man roster has impacted reliever Evan Phillips. The team announced this afternoon that Phillips cleared outright waivers and was assigned to Triple-A Norfolk. Only 36 players remain on the 40-man roster and additional moves are coming to allow for placement of minor leaguers eligible to be chosen in December's Rule 5 draft. Phillips made multiple trips between the majors and alternate camp site in Bowie and registered a 5.02 ERA and a...
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Armstrong armed with effective plan in 2020

Armstrong armed with effective plan in 2020
The Orioles had players in 2020 who made obvious improvements. To miss it would require a blindfold and disabling of your Twitter account. They provided nice stories to get us through the summer. To offset the collapse that kept the Orioles away from the expanded playoff field. I'm wondering how many fans noticed that reliever Shawn Armstrong was very effective when healthy? I should have known because it's my job, but he was sneaky good. Only after reviewing the final bullpen numbers did I...
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A few thoughts on fall instructional league

A few thoughts on fall instructional league
The Orioles are getting ready to open their fall instructional league down in Sarasota. The Ed Smith Stadium complex is operating again after being shut down for more than six months. One of the smartest moves made by the Orioles has been exercising caution instead of their players. A complete roster of participants will be available soon and figures to include the draft selections who were denied a minor league season. I'm working more on assumptions. For instance, why shut down top pick...
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Latest look at 40-man roster and Rule 5 decisions (updated)

Latest look at 40-man roster and Rule 5 decisions (updated)
The task of clearing room on the 40-man roster began as the Orioles worked through the final games on their schedule. No need to wait until the last out. Pitcher Carson Fulmer, the former first-round pick of the White Sox, didn't make it through waivers. Reliever Cody Carroll passed through and was outrighted. The 40-man roster was reduced to 37 players, but the Orioles activated pitcher Kohl Stewart from the 10-day injured list yesterday, per their transactions page, and he goes back on the...
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Closing arguments on bullpen role

Closing arguments on bullpen role
Teams in a rebuild, and specifically the people behind it, wonder about the obsession over a defined closer for the bullpen Fans ask about it. The media tracks it. The first reliever to rise after the eighth with his club holding a slim lead is crowned. Five pitchers recorded saves for the Orioles this year and Hunter Harvey wasn't counted among them. He was supposed to handle the responsibility, according to everything written and reported over the winter and spring and during summer training...
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Giving Orioles the business now that season ended

Giving Orioles the business now that season ended
The next step after waking up without baseball is to gauge your own interest in the playoffs - hard for me to root against the Padres with those familiar faces - and wonder what's next for the Orioles beyond the fall instructional league. Will they be active at the Winter Meetings? Will there be a Winter Meetings? At least remotely, I'd assume. Hold onto that Zoom account. Executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias is going to determine the interest in his trade chips, including...
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Orioles move back into offseason phase

Orioles move back into offseason phase
The first day without baseball. It feels like only two months ago that the Orioles were waiting to get started. I didn't like the chances of Major League Baseball making it through the 60-game season, but here we are, with 16 teams ready for the expanded playoffs. The Orioles finished with a 25-35 record, tied for fifth-worst in the majors, but stayed in contention until the final week. A nice sidebar to the main story, which was tracking the progress of top prospects who made their debuts in...
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Orioles win finale 7-5 to secure fourth place (updated)

Orioles win finale 7-5 to secure fourth place (updated)
The Orioles will not surrender fourth place. Their heels dug in one last time in 2020. The final notation on the season came this afternoon in Buffalo, where the Orioles rallied from a three-run deficit to beat the Blue Jays 7-5 at Sahlen Field. Keegan Akin surrendered a solo home run to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the third and a two-run shot to Lourdes Gurriel Jr., with a Randal Grichuk single in between, to destroy a 1-1 tie. But the Orioles knotted the score again with three runs in the...
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Hyde's final pregame media session of 2020

Hyde's final pregame media session of 2020
The Orioles are finishing their "two-part season" today, as manager Brandon Hyde calls it. Players who were hot early and faded this month. A team that made a run at the playoffs and fell hard down the stretch. "I think a lot of guys are disappointed in the last 20 games and how they're finishing up, and that's really them putting pressure on themselves, wishing from a team aspect they could have done more to help us in the last 20 games," Hyde said today in his final pregame Zoom...
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Final Orioles lineup for 2020

Final Orioles lineup for 2020
The 2020 season ends today for the Orioles with Keegan Akin on the mound for his sixth major league start. The Orioles are one game ahead of the Red Sox for fourth place in the American League East. Akin made his first start against the Blue Jays in Buffalo and was tagged with two unearned runs with six strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings. He's walked one batter and struck out 15 in his last two starts over nine innings. Austin Hays is batting .388/.423/.612 (19-for-49) with three home runs and 11...
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Means finishes strong in Orioles' 5-2 loss (updated)

Means finishes strong in Orioles' 5-2 loss (updated)
The penultimate game of the 2020 season found John Means on the mound again for the Orioles and Randal Grichuk out of the Blue Jays' lineup. Means hasn't caught a lot of breaks this summer. Give him that one. Then again, maybe he didn't need it the way he's been pitching down the stretch. Coming off a 12-strikeout gem last weekend in Baltimore, Means kept the Blue Jays hitless tonight until Cavan Biggio homered with two outs in the sixth. Grichuk entered the game in the top half of the...
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Lots of positive developments in losing 2020 season

Lots of positive developments in losing 2020 season
The time for reflection begins today. The Orioles are playing their final game of a wacky season. Some would call it "truncated." Everyone would agree that it's so far from the norm that proper evaluations are complicated. A passing grade is earned by the promotions and successes of outfielder/first baseman Ryan Mountcastle - in that order - and pitchers Keegan Akin, Dean Kremer and Bruce Zimmermann. The rookies should comprise three-fifths of the rotation in spring training 2021, but...
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Elias conducts season-ending review on final weekend

Elias conducts season-ending review on final weekend
The standings can't be ignored, no matter how much Orioles executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias is comforted and encouraged by prospect performance and the work done at the alternate camp site. How he judges a season includes production on the field. "It's very difficult for me to label any season a success where we have a losing record and don't make the playoffs," he said in today's Zoom conference call. "But I see enough positive things where we can a feel good that...
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Orioles and Blue Jays lineups (updated)

Orioles and Blue Jays lineups (updated)
José Iglesias is starting at shortstop tonight in Buffalo after serving as the designated hitter and homering in the last two games. Ramón Urías has moved to second base, with Hanser Alberto now the designated hitter. Urías hit his first career home run last night and is batting .381 (8-for-21) with two doubles, a homer and three RBIs in nine major league games. Austin Hays is leading off and playing left field. He's a career .296 hitter (50-for-169) in 52 September games, with...
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López ambushed early in Orioles' 10-5 loss (updated)

López ambushed early in Orioles' 10-5 loss (updated)
An abnormal 2020 season that began with serious doubts about its staying power naturally is ending for the Orioles in Buffalo. Because so little has felt right. So little has made actual sense. Manager Brandon Hyde joked again today about doing his Zoom conference call from "a tent." The ballpark's extreme makeover couldn't hide all the blemishes. Hyde also stressed again the importance of finishing strong. But here's where abnormal spins to back to uncomfortably normal. Randal Grichuk...
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Iglesias hasn't got time for the pain

Iglesias hasn't got time for the pain
Orioles manager Brandon Hyde can read the statistics. He can stand in the dugout and watch the innings and at-bats. The stuff that's laid out for everybody. Sometimes, it's the little things that grab his attention. That don't directly impact a 13-1 win but stand out as much as the home runs and strikeouts. José Iglesias convinced Hyde that he could play Thursday night in Boston. He took batting practice again and lobbied for his inclusion in the lineup as the designated hitter. For a...
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