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Director of player development Matt Blood on players skipping levels

Director of player development Matt Blood on players skipping levels
There is a lot we don't yet know about the 2021 baseball season. We have a schedule for 162 games for each big league team; we just don't know if the sport will start on time and play all 162. After the restructuring on the farm, we still don't have schedules for minor league teams or any idea when those players will be in Florida for spring training. But whenever it all starts and however many minor league games are played during 2021, the Orioles will at some point have to set rosters for...
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He's looking for a season where health and potential meet

He's looking for a season where health and potential meet
Former Orioles skipper Buck Showalter would sometimes refer to something or someone in baseball as being "delayed but not denied." Be patient and you'll be rewarded. For O's bullpen righty Hunter Harvey, will major league stardom be delayed but not denied? The guy's career has seen more delays seemingly than the Baltimore Beltway at rush hour. From 2015-2017 on the farm, he threw a total of 31 1/3 innings. Through 2018, that four-year total was 63 2/3 innings. So many injury issues, well...
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Taking another look at Shaw, Kim and a few tidbits

Taking another look at Shaw, Kim and a few tidbits
Today, I'm revisiting some recent articles that appeared in this space. We're taking another look at two players. I enjoyed my recent interview with 27-year-old Chris Shaw for this article. He's probably facing an uphill battle to make the Orioles' opening day roster. Several players, now including him, will compete this spring for outfield corner spots, along with first base and DH. But Shaw had quite a season on the farm in 2019. Between Double-A and Triple-A for the San Francisco Giants,...
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A few O's questions that are still unanswered

A few O's questions that are still unanswered
With spring training set to start in about two months - if it does start on time - the Orioles have a host of questions without answers and issues to address. Nothing new here. Baseball rosters are always changing and few teams have most of their key questions resolved before Christmas in any given year. So here are a few O's questions out there where we wait on answers. Who plays shortstop?: After the trade of José Iglesias, the Orioles have a bit of a hole in an infield in transition....
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Dealing with pitchers' innings and yearly totals

Dealing with pitchers' innings and yearly totals
Over the years, we've seen organizations like the Orioles handle young pitchers on the farm in a similar fashion when it came to bumping up their innings totals each season as they approach the majors. But without minor league games in 2020, now the math has been altered. A pitcher slated to throw 100 innings this summer didn't get those innings in. At least not in a minor league game. But maybe he got in half that many - perhaps even more - at an alternate site or on his own throwing to...
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Sceroler will try to make jump from Florida State League to AL

Sceroler will try to make jump from Florida State League to AL
Right-hander Mac Sceroler has got a decent four-pitch mix and an uncle who has helped shape his career and is well known to Orioles fans. He had a strong 2019 season, but when spring training begins, the 25-year-old will be trying to make the jump from the high Single-A Florida State League to the American League. One of the O's two Rule 5 picks, along with right-hander Tyler Wells, Sceroler was the No. 5 pick of the 18 major league-phase players taken. The Orioles selected him from the...
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After strong debut, what's next for Ryan Mountcastle?

After strong debut, what's next for Ryan Mountcastle?
Ryan Mountcastle was one of the club's better hitters during the shortened 2020 season. He arrived in the majors with an Aug. 21 call-up and sure did not disappoint with his play and production after that. Mountcastle has been moving onward and upward at a steady pace since the Orioles selected him in the First-Year Player Draft. 2015: O's select him No. 36 overall out of Hagerty (Fla.) High School.2016: He spends his entire first full year at Single-A Delmarva, batting .281/.319/.426.2017:...
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Do Akin and Kremer have firm hold on rotation spots?

Do Akin and Kremer have firm hold on rotation spots?
If we are to presume that two slots in the 2021 Orioles rotation are pretty much set and two others are somewhat set, that still leaves at least one spot open in the starting five for next season. The Orioles have some decisions to make before opening day next season, whenever that turns out to be. Do Keegan Akin and Dean Kremer return to the rotation where they ended last summer and join mainstays John Means and Alex Cobb? Where does this leave Jorge López? Can one or both of the Rule 5...
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New Oriole Chris Shaw already familiar with several teammates

New Oriole Chris Shaw already familiar with several teammates
One of the newest Orioles is an accomplished minor league hitter with power who has gotten just 72 at-bats over two seasons in the majors. He's a former hockey player who grew up a diehard Red Sox fan living just outside of Boston. And even though he comes from the San Francisco Giants, a club across the country, he has ties to the Orioles. He can't wait to reunite with some of the club's players. Chris Shaw, a 27-year-old, lefty-hitting outfielder and first baseman, was designated for...
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Previously thought as a trade chip, Alex Cobb could be sticking around

Previously thought as a trade chip, Alex Cobb could be sticking around
When asked about possibly dealing right-handed starting pitcher Alex Cobb before or during the 2021 season, Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias made it sound like he does not expect that to happen. "First of all, he's serving a very important role on our team stabilizing our rotation with the young guys, mentoring the young guys, and we're planning on keeping him all year and would be thrilled if he contributed and is healthy again like he was last year and...
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Because You Asked - minor league version

Because You Asked - minor league version
Taking a page from the School of Roch blog, today I'm trying to answer some of your minor league questions. Some you have specifically asked and some I'm pretty sure you may be curious about. How did you feel about Frederick losing its O's affiliation this week? In a word, sad. I worked at WFMD Radio in Frederick out of college from 1982 into 1987. That was even before the Keys' first year of 1989. I've been to many games there and have come to love the Frederick community and still have...
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Remembering last time the O's lost two in the Rule 5

Remembering last time the O's lost two in the Rule 5
When the Orioles lost two players in the major league phase of Thursday's Rule 5 draft, it was a good news/bad news situation. On the one hand, for the first time since 2015 the O's lost a player in the Rule 5. And only five Major League Baseball clubs lost two or more players in this draft. On the other hand, the Orioles may have lost two players for good. Players often get sent back to their original teams in this draft, but it's not a given, obviously. The O's never sent Richie Martin...
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O's Mike Snyder and Kent Qualls on today's additions

O's Mike Snyder and Kent Qualls on today's additions
The Orioles added two right-handed starting pitchers today in the major league phase of the Rule 5 draft. And they added two-right handed pitchers and a catcher in the Triple-A phase of the draft. While it cost $100,000 to make a pick in the major league phase and that player must stay on the selecting team's big league roster all year or be offered back to his former club, no such rules apply in the minor league phase. Each selection costs $24,000 there and the player is now fully part of the...
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Looking at Frederick's immediate baseball future, while Aberdeen moves up

Looking at Frederick's immediate baseball future, while Aberdeen moves up
So yesterday, as it turned out, was the day. We finally got some clarity on the Orioles minor leagues for 2021. We hope that we get to see a full season of baseball as the country recovers from the pandemic. What we do know now is the likely makeup of the O's farm moving forward. Four teams were invited to be O's full-season affiliates. They are Triple-A Norfolk, Double-A Bowie, high Single-A Aberdeen and low Single-A Delmarva. Major League Baseball is asking the clubs to sign Professional...
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Orioles extend minor league affiliate invitations for 2021

Orioles extend minor league affiliate invitations for 2021
The Orioles today announced invitations for their four full-season affiliates for the 2021 season. They have invited the Norfolk Tides to continue as their Triple-A affiliate and the Bowie Baysox to remain their Double-A team. They invited their previously short-season Single-A team, the Aberdeen IronBirds, to serve as their high Single-A affiliate and the Delmarva Shorebirds to remain as their low Single-A club. O's executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias confirmed yesterday...
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Frederick Keys will not be an O's affiliate in 2021

Frederick Keys will not be an O's affiliate in 2021
The Single-A Frederick Keys will not be part of the Orioles organization in the 2021 season, an industry source confirmed today. The Keys, who have been an O's affiliate since 1989, will become the sixth team in the MLB Draft League, a new summer amateur wood-bat league expected to attract draft-eligible players. Baseball America was the first to report the news about Frederick. It appears that Frederick may still have longshot hopes to be an affiliate for some organization in 2021. The Keys...
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O's expected to field two GCL teams, notes on shortstop and more

O's expected to field two GCL teams, notes on shortstop and more
Baseball America recently reported that baseball officials have tweaked the restructuring of the minor leagues. Previously, each organization was expected to have five domestic farm clubs - four full-season teams and one complex-based team. That is a Rookie-level club playing at their spring training complex. But Baseball America reported that officials are now expected to allow clubs to field two complex-based clubs. This would allow organizations with two such teams to employ as many as 180...
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Garrett Stallings on his southeast Virginia roots and joining the O's

Garrett Stallings on his southeast Virginia roots and joining the O's
When the Orioles traded shortstop José Iglesias to the Los Angeles Angels last week for minor league pitchers Garrett Stallings and 19-year-old Venezuelan right-hander Jean Pinto, it was clear that executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias was a fan of Stallings' work in the Southeastern Conference. The Orioles did their homework on Stallings and his three years in the SEC. The pitcher did some homework of his own on his new team. He knew some of the four Angels minor league...
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Checking in with Baseball America's J.J. Cooper on Rule 5 draft

Checking in with Baseball America's J.J. Cooper on Rule 5 draft
For 14 straight years, the Orioles have made a pick in the major league phase of the Rule 5 draft. The streak may well be extended this Thursday during the latest Rule 5 draft. Will the Orioles be looking for infielders after non-tendering Hanser Alberto and trading José Iglesias to the Los Angeles Angels? J.J. Cooper of Baseball America said if the O's want to add an infielder, the Rule 5 may be a good place to look. "If you want infielders, I do think it's a pretty good Rule 5 class for...
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A look at a player who may be the next O's top 100 prospect

A look at a player who may be the next O's top 100 prospect
When he arrived at the Orioles' alternate camp at Double-A Bowie on Aug. 7, he became the youngest player on the field there at 19. But also among those with one of the potentially brightest futures. He would face pitchers more advanced than he would have been facing in a normal 2020 season, but that would also eventually prove a great benefit. And the fact that shortstop Gunnar Henderson was holding his own by the end of that camp was further verification that the Orioles made a solid draft...
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