Healthy Winker sees opportunity to resurrect career with Nats
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Jesse Winker had played in Washington several times before as a member of the Reds and Mariners. He had played well in D.C., compiling a 1.084 OPS across 34 plate appearances. He had enjoyed touring the city during his downtime. And anyone he ever spoke to about the Nationals offered positive feedback. So when the opportunit
SARASOTA – Kyle Stowers got married in November. He’s back to full health after a shoulder injury and fractured nose messed with his 2023 season. He’s surrounded by friends inside the Orioles spring clubhouse. Life is good. To make it better, he’d need to again break camp with the team. But it’s hard to kill his positive vibe. Stowers went 2-for-30
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – These early days of spring training are supposed to be reserved for pitchers and catchers. Position players technically don’t report until Tuesday. Stroll through the Nationals clubhouse, though, or walk around their practice fields, and you can’t help but notice how many position players already are here. Of the 29 position
The Orioles have made the following roster moves: Claimed INF/OF Diego Castillo off waivers from the Philadelphia Phillies.Designated INF Livan Soto for assignment. The Orioles’ 40-man roster currently has 40 players.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A Nationals club in need of more pitching depth this spring – and perhaps beyond – added another arm to the mix today, signing veteran reliever Jacob Barnes to a minor league deal with an invitation to big league camp. Barnes, 33, has considerable experience, having pitched in 265 major league games since 2016 for eight diff
SARASOTA, Fla. – John Means joined teammates in spring training warmups this morning, but his throwing distance looked more like a football practice. Deep bombs to his intended target. Long, long tossing to get his arm loose before heading to the row of mounds. Means didn’t have his first offseason bullpen session until Jan. 30, with the club slow-
SARASOTA, Fla. – Kyle Bradish said he’s “very confident” that he can recover from his elbow injury and be a major contributor to the 2024 Orioles. Bradish was diagnosed in January with an ulnar collateral ligament sprain. “I’m feeling really good right now,” he said this morning. “I’m going to take it day by day, trust the process and the schedule
For now, we have to put on hold any talk that this might be among the best O’s rotations ever. They added a stud pitcher in 2021 National League Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes, but on the first day of spring training we saw that injuries subtracted, at least for some period of time, two starters. We’ve seen better days in Birdland. Right-hande
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – When MacKenzie Gore returned home in October and contemplated his season, the Nationals left-hander focused on the two extremes he experienced. “Some good and some bad,” he said. “I’ve really just got to figure out why I was good at times, and why I wasn’t. Fix that and go into this year.” Gore truly did pitch at both ends o
SARASOTA, Fla. – Former Orioles manager Buck Showalter used to make a point about the unpredictability of baseball by quoting one of his favorite sayings. If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. It’s supposed to apply to life, but it also works with sports. Think you have every angle covered before spring training and discover on
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – It was something of an offhand comment, thrown in near the end of a longer answer to a question about his bench options to begin the season. But what Davey Martinez said Wednesday made a few ears perk up. “We’re going to have a battle for center field with Young and Robles,” the Nationals manager said in his first media sess