Major League Baseball tonight announced that Orioles right-handed pitcher FÉLIX BAUTISTA has won the 2023 Mariano Rivera American League Reliever of the Year Award. He was a unanimous choice by the voting panel, which was comprised of six all-time great relievers. Bautista becomes the second Orioles player to win the award, joining left-hander ZACK

The Orioles are finalizing the structure of their 2024 coaching staff as they approach the Winter Meetings. Business that doesn’t influence their active roster. According to an industry source, the Orioles are prepared to hire Drew French as their pitching coach. French, 39, spent the past three seasons as the Braves’ bullpen coach. He’ll take over

PROSPECT REVIEW: ANDREW ALVAREZ Age on opening day 2024: 24 How acquired: Drafted in 12th round in 2021 from California Polytechnic State University Ranking: NR per MLB Pipeline, NR per Baseball America MLB ETA: TBD* Projected by MLB Pipeline Signing bonus: $125,000 2023 levels: High-A Wilmington and Double-A Harrisburg 2023 stats: 7-7, 2.99 ERA, 2

It has been rather quiet thus far in baseball free agency. Unless you are the St. Louis Cardinals, who have added three of the five starting pitchers signed to this point. If you are just looking for a juicy rumor involving the Orioles, you may have a long wait. The team seems to work hard at keeping its business close to the vest and Mike Elias ha

If the month of November seems slow or stalled for Orioles business, consider that the only player acquisition a year ago was outfielder Daz Cameron on a minor league contract. The rest of it centered on outrighting a few players and protecting others in the Rule 5 draft. The Orioles were much more active in November 2021 with waiver claims of reli

The Baltimore Orioles today announced home game times for the 2024 season, including the introduction of 4:05 p.m. ET start times for all Saturday home games, except for the game against the Texas Rangers on June 29, which will begin at 7:15 p.m. The schedule also features the expansion of 6:35 p.m. start times to include all weeknight Monday-Thurs

We found out during the 2023 MLB regular season that we could watch a game lasting two and half hours again and it would not be completely rare. We found out we could survive a game played without defensive shifts. We found out we could be completely okay with scoring and base stealing on the rise. And we found that the game was not dramatically ch

PROSPECT REVIEW: MATT CRONIN Age on opening day 2024: 26 How acquired: Drafted in fourth round in 2019 from University of Arkansas Ranking: NR per MLB Pipeline, No. 29 per Baseball America MLB ETA: 2023* Projected by MLB Pipeline Signing bonus: $464,500 2023 levels: Triple-A Rochester 2023 stats: 1-1, 5.02 ERA, 14 G, 0 GS, 14 ⅓ IP, 13 H, 9 R, 8 ER,

The Orioles are expected to break camp again next spring with 13 pitchers and 13 position players. The same even split on their 26-man roster. Six of them made their first Opening Day rosters – starter Kyle Bradish, catcher Adley Rutschman, infielders Gunnar Henderson and Terrin Vavra, outfielder Kyle Stowers and reliever Logan Gillaspie. Gillaspie

PROSPECT REVIEW: ZACH BRZYKCY Age on opening day 2024: 24 How acquired: Signed as undrafted free agent in 2020 from Virginia Tech Ranking: No. 28 per MLB Pipeline, No. 22 per Baseball America MLB ETA: 2024* Projected by MLB Pipeline Signing bonus: $20,000 2023 levels: Double-A Harrisburg (injured list) 2023 stats: N/A Quotable: “Like I told him: ‘W