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Beast of the East: Can anyone knock Boston off the top spot?

Beast of the East: Can anyone knock Boston off the top spot?
Just like the Orioles, the Boston Red Sox failed to win a playoff game in 2016. But unlike the Orioles, the Red Sox did use an 11-game September winning streak to surge to an American League East division championship. After finishing in last place in 2014 and 2015, Boston won 93 games last season and took the division by four games over both Baltimore and Toronto. Now that Boston is back on top in the AL East, the Red Sox look very much poised to stay there for a while. It would be very hard...
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Talking chemistry, PRP injections and a note from Aberdeen

Talking chemistry, PRP injections and a note from Aberdeen
When it comes to baseball, there is seemingly a stat for everything. Beyond traditional stats, we can find the so-called advanced stats such as Weighted Runs Created and Weighted On-Base Average, and we can find stats for Defensive Runs Saved and pitching stats for Line Drive Rate and Home Run to Fly Ball ratio. And that is just scratching the surface. But can everything be explained with a stat - traditional or otherwise? Not really. Not hardly. On MLB Network yesterday, "MLB Now" host Brian...
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The Orioles' early minor league camp roster (plus a Tillman take)

The Orioles' early minor league camp roster (plus a Tillman take)
While the Orioles' major league spring training camp is taking place in Sarasota, Fla., at the Ed Smith Stadium complex, a few miles away the Orioles will once again hold an early minor league camp. This camp features 37 players that report on Friday, with the first workout set for Saturday. This camp consists of 18 pitchers and 19 position players. They will get a jump on those reporting later to the full minor league camp. These players also are available to the Orioles for early spring...
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MLB Network talks Orioles, plus notes on prospects and outfield defense

MLB Network talks Orioles, plus notes on prospects and outfield defense
The ongoing discussion of the Orioles being the subject of preseason projections and predictions for low win totals is ... ongoing. The latest discussion was on MLB Network on Monday where the analysts on "MLB Now" debated why the O's are so often the subject of predictions to fare poorly. Analyst Ron Darling pointed to the dugout as one reason they anually beat the projections. "Buck (Showalter) is one of those factors," Darling said. "Yes, catching the ball (defense has been important),...
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Hope springs eternal on Day One of camp

Hope springs eternal on Day One of camp
Pitchers and catchers report today. Those are five words that get most baseball fans excited and they are being heard by all Orioles fans today. Yes, a new season is about to begin. And yes it does seem like just weeks ago we saw the 2016 season end at Rogers Centre in Toronto. There will be a few more days to provide some excitement along the way. Like the day of the first full-squad workout and the day the exhibition season begins. But the real excitement, of course, truly begins April 3 at...
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Is it time for Major League Baseball to alter the rules for extra innings?

Is it time for Major League Baseball to alter the rules for extra innings?
It may be something that we never see in the major leagues, but Major League Baseball officials like it enough that they will experiment with it this year in the lower level of the minor leagues. This summer, in the Gulf Coast League, where the Orioles have an affiliate, and in the Arizona League, a runner will be placed at second base to start every extra inning. That's a pretty dramatic rule change that seemed to be met with some public resistance over the last few days. A similar rule has...
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Chance Sisco is ranked No. 57 by Baseball America

Chance Sisco is ranked No. 57 by Baseball America
Baseball America released its 2017 listing of the top 100 prospects in the sport during a broadcast on MLB Network last night. The Orioles, as expected, placed just one player on the list with catcher Chance Sisco ranked No. 57. Last year, the Orioles had no players make this list. Earlier, Sisco was ranked No. 69 on ESPN's top 100 and No. 99 by MLBPipeline.com. He's been rated as the clear No. 1 Orioles prospect by several outlets, including Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus and ESPN....
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After RBI-less season, Caleb Joseph welcomes a fresh start

After RBI-less season, Caleb Joseph welcomes a fresh start
With spring training, as the saying goes, "hope springs eternal." It can serve as a fresh start and clean slate for players and teams alike. Probably no Orioles player welcomes this is as much as catcher Caleb Joseph. A solid contributor to the 2014-15 teams, Joseph had a miserable 2016 season that included a .174 batting average and zero RBIs in 141 plate appearances. He also suffered a testicular injury that required surgery. It was a rough year. Yep, he's ready to start over and prove...
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Notes on Luis Matos, PECOTA, the WBC, Matt Wieters and more

Notes on Luis Matos, PECOTA, the WBC, Matt Wieters and more
Led by their manager, former Orioles outfielder Luis Matos, Puerto Rico beat Mexico 1-0 in extra innings Tuesday night to win its first Caribbean Series title since 2000. "Being my first year as a manager in Puerto Rico and knowing that Puerto Rico has not won in 16 years brings a lot of joy," Matos told reporters. "I'm very happy and I'm very excited. We've been down in every series. We were 0-3 and we came back with three wins, and we are champions right now." The Orioles drafted Matos...
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A look at the PECOTA projection and O's infield depth

A look at the PECOTA projection and O's infield depth
Death, taxes and PECOTA projecting the Orioles for a losing season. The Orioles may have two promising young pitchers to join Chris Tillman heading up their rotation and a bullpen that led the American League in ERA last year. Despite that, PECOTA predicts that they will give up the most runs in baseball this season and finish with the third-worst record in the majors as they finish last in the AL East. The annual PECOTA projection from Baseball Prospectus is out and a tradition continued with...
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After dominant year, Zach Britton is not ranked as MLB's top reliever

After dominant year, Zach Britton is not ranked as MLB's top reliever
This might drive some Orioles fans crazy, but there are some national analysts that do not rank O's closer Zach Britton as the No. 1 reliever in baseball. After a year where Britton's 0.54 ERA ranked as the best in major league history among pitchers with 50 or more innings, Britton was ranked No. 3 by MLB Network on its list of the "Top 10 Relievers Right Now" show. 1. Andrew Miller, Cleveland Indians2. Aroldis Chapman, New York Yankees3. Zach Britton, Baltimore Orioles4. Kenley Jansen,...
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Manny Machado on the WBC and a look back at the three-homer game

Manny Machado on the WBC and a look back at the three-homer game
In late December, we posed this question: How much better can Manny Machado get? Machado's OPS has increased every year he has been in the majors, going from .739 in 2012 to .861 in 2015 to .876 last year. Here is a look at Machado's last two seasons: 2015: .286 average, .359 OBP, .502 slugging, 30 doubles, 35 homers, 86 RBIs. 2016: .294 average, .343 OBP, .533 slugging, 40 doubles, 37 homers, 96 RBIs. In 2016, he produced career highs in home runs and RBIs. He was named winner of the Louis...
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Week in review: New pitching coaches, bullpen usage, PECOTA and more

Week in review: New pitching coaches, bullpen usage, PECOTA and more
On this Sunday, we take a look back about a week at some of the stories that appeared here and the comments you made about them. Feel free to send in a question or comment about any or all of them today. Monday: We heard from the new Orioles pitching coaches and Rule 5 picks Anthony Santander and Aneury Tavarez. New pitching coach Roger McDowell said bullpen coach Alan Mills will be very important for him. They are former O's teammates and Mills has some real knowledge of the O's pitchers...
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Zach Britton on chasing a title, a 2017 encore and more

Zach Britton on chasing a title, a 2017 encore and more
So after one of the best seasons we've ever seen from a reliever, what does Orioles closer Zach Britton do for an encore in 2017? It's a question he figures to get a lot in spring training from both local and national reporters. "I try not to live up to it or try to duplicate it," Britton said at FanFest. "I think every year your body is different. The way you go about doing things may be different. You're a little older - maybe your arm slot is a little different. You treat every year...
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Prediction season is about to begin

Prediction season is about to begin
Brace yourself, Orioles fans. The PECOTA projections are coming out next week and you know what that means: probably a prediction of last place and a losing season. Before the Debbie Downers around here rush to agree, you should remember that the system seems to often miss the Orioles' win total by a mile. The Orioles have won 444 games the last five years to lead the American League. During that span, PECOTA predicted a total of 371 victories. The system has predicted five straight losing...
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Orioles have won 64 percent of Chris Tillman's starts since 2012

Orioles have won 64 percent of Chris Tillman's starts since 2012
Among all the stats we could research, discuss, analyze and over-analyze involving Orioles right-hander Chris Tillman, one that looks darn good on his resume is the Orioles' winning percentage in games that he starts. Tillman went 16-6 with a 3.77 ERA last season. Over 172 innings, he allowed 155 hits with 66 walks, 140 strikeouts and a .244 batting average against. He made 30 starts and the Orioles went 22-8 in those games. It, of course, was not all Tillman's doing. He needs run support and...
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Britton: Don't expect to see October bullpen usage come April

Britton: Don't expect to see October bullpen usage come April
There are some baseball analysts that feel the usage of bullpen pitchers could look a little different during the 2017 regular season. They feel we will see more of what we saw in how select bullpen pitchers were used during the postseason last year. While that seems unlikely to me, we certainly saw some of the top closers and others used in more innings and, in some cases, much earlier in games than we are used to seeing them. Andrew Miller of the Cleveland Indians and Kenley Jansen of the Los...
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A special FanFest "Mo-ment" and other notes

A special FanFest "Mo-ment" and other notes
Regular listeners to the Orioles' flagship radio station, 105.7 FM The Fan in Baltimore, certainly know the youngster's voice. They surely know his knowledge of and passion for Baltimore sports. And they are certainly familiar with that wonderful laugh. But a few hundred fans got to see and meet 11-year-old Mo in person on stage Saturday at FanFest. Everyone in the room cheered loudly when they saw the Orioles' Adam Jones come out to greet Mo. That is everyone but Mo, who is blind and had to...
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Checking in with the pitching coaches and Rule 5 picks at FanFest

Checking in with the pitching coaches and Rule 5 picks at FanFest
For the first time since the 2013 season, the Orioles will have a new pitching coach this year with Roger McDowell replacing Dave Wallace. Before the 2006 season, McDowell replaced Leo Mazzone as Atlanta Braves pitching coach. Over the next 11 seasons, the Braves staff went 905-876 and ranked fourth among major league clubs with a 3.88 ERA, including a 3.58 ERA posted by relievers, which ranked second in the majors. Each season from 2009-14, Atlanta's ERA ranked in the top five among big...
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FanFest notes and quotes from Showalter, Trumbo, Hardy and more

FanFest notes and quotes from Showalter, Trumbo, Hardy and more
Every year ,FanFest provides an opportunity for a day-long event where the Orioles' loyal fans get to show the team yet again just how loyal they are and how much they love their team. More than 15,000 did just that Saturday. But that goes both ways, manager Buck Showalter said. For him, FanFest provided a chance to reunite both with the players he leads and the fans he appreciates so much. "This is always special. It's so uplifting," Showalter said. "And our players enjoy it. Once our...
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