PLAYER REVIEW: TREY LIPSCOMB Age on Opening Day 2025: 24 How acquired: Third round pick, 2022 MLB Draft MLB service time: 95 days 2024 salary: $740,000 Contract status: Under club control, arbitration-eligible in 2028, free agent in 2031 2024 stats: 61 G, 211 PA, 190 AB, 20 R, 38 H, 3 2B, 0 3B, 1 HR, 10 RBI, 11 SB, 2 CS, 16 BB, 40 SO, .200 AVG, .26

The month of October can be slow for teams that aren’t in the playoffs. That’s sort of the idea. The spotlight shines on the ones who remain in the championship chase. The others quietly take care of their business and wait until free agency begins and other important dates arrive. Big announcements are frowned upon. The last Orioles transaction is

PLAYER REVIEW: JOEY GALLO Age on Opening Day 2025: 31 How acquired: Signed as free agent, January 2024 MLB service time: 8 years, 130 days 2024 salary: $2.5 million Contract status: $8 million mutual option for 2025 or $2.5 million buyout 2024 stats: 76 G, 260 PA, 223 AB, 24 R, 36 H, 9 2B, 0 3B, 10 HR, 27 RBI, 3 SB, 1 CS, 32 BB, 102 SO, .161 AVG, .

There was a time in Major League Baseball when there were no divisions – just the American League and National League. The two winners “won the pennant” and went to the World Series. In MLB, the first “modern” World Series was in 1903 and one team from each league would play in the World Series through the 1968 season. But that all changed in 1969

Money will be spent over the winter, the first under the new ownership group. The Orioles could have 16 players eligible for arbitration and raises are coming. They will check the free-agent market for upgrades. They could inherit contracts through trades that bump up the payroll, as they did with starters Corbin Burnes and Zach Eflin. Other contra

Will a team be slugging their way to a World Series title over the next couple of weeks. Do home runs now play well in the playoffs? For years a narrative was that teams that hit a lot of homers won’t in the playoffs and that type of offense won’t work. Are the 2024 Orioles evidence of that. They finished second in the majors in homers this year bu

PLAYER REVIEW: JOSÉ TENA Age on Opening Day 2025: 24 How acquired: Traded with Alex Clemmey and Rafael Ramirez Jr. from Guardians for Lane Thomas, July 2024 MLB service time: 93 days 2024 salary: $740,000 Contract status: Under club control, arbitration-eligible in 2028, free agent in 2031 2024 stats (CLE+WSH): 44 G, 168 PA, 161 AB, 14 R, 43 H, 5 2

Who have you got in the World Series? How much do you care after the Orioles lost in the Wild Card? They’re busy reconstructing the coaching staff after moving on from co-hitting coach Ryan Fuller, bench coach Fredi González and major league coach José Hernández, and after co-hitting coach Matt Borgschulte returned to the Twins. But there’s lots mo

As the Orioles didn’t win as much in the final months of the season, the focus was often on the offense which was not performing at earlier levels. But also, during those last two months and the in the postseason the team was without a key rotation pitcher (several of course) in right-hander Grayson Rodriguez. Up until he got scratched for a start

PLAYER REVIEW: LUIS GARCÍA JR. Age on Opening Day 2025: 24 How acquired: Signed as international free agent, July 2016 MLB service time: 3 years, 142 days 2024 salary: $1.95 million Contract status: Arbitration-eligible, free agent in 2028 2024 stats: 140 G, 528 PA, 500 AB, 58 R, 141 H, 25 2B, 1 3B, 18 HR, 70 RBI, 22 SB, 5 CS, 27 BB, 86 SO, .282 AV