PLAYER REVIEW: JORDAN WEEMS Age on Opening Day 2024: 31 How acquired: Signed as minor-league free agent, March 2022 MLB service time: 2 years, 55 days 2023 salary: $720,000 Contract status: Under club control, arbitration-eligible in 2025, free agent in 2028 2023 stats: 5-1, 3.62 ERA, 51 G, 0 SV, 54 2/3 IP, 38 H, 25 R, 22 ER, 9 HR, 28 BB, 60 SO, 3

PROSPECT REVIEW: ISRAEL PINEDA Age on opening day 2024: 23 How acquired: Signed as international free agent, July 2016 Ranking: No. 21 per MLB Pipeline, No. 21 per Baseball America MLB debut: Sept. 11, 2022 Signing bonus: $450,000 2023 levels: Rookie-level Florida Complex League, High-A Wilmington and Double-A Harrisburg 2023 stats: 41 G, 153 PA, 1

The World Series remains unsettled and free agency is on hold until five days after the conclusion of it. However, a mailbag can be sorted and shared at any time. Let’s begin a new month with a fresh batch of questions. Some of the responses might be stale. Some might prove inaccurate. I’m counting on short memories in these cases. You should remem

In reshaping their coaching staff, the Nationals appear to be looking inward for help. The Nats are promoting Ricky Gutierrez to third base coach and Gerardo Parra to first base coach, a source familiar with the decisions confirmed, filling two of the four vacant jobs on Davey Martinez’s big league staff with a couple of former big league players w

PLAYER REVIEW: HUNTER HARVEY Age on Opening Day 2024: 29 How acquired: Claimed off waivers from Giants, March 2022 MLB service time: 4 years, 47 days 2023 salary: $870,000 Contract status: Arbitration-eligible, free agent in 2026 2023 stats: 4-4, 2.82 ERA, 57 G, 10 SV, 60 2/3 IP, 44 H, 21 R, 19 ER, 7 HR, 13 BB, 67 SO, 2 HBP, 0.940 WHIP, 153 ERA+, 3

PROSPECT REVIEW: ANDREW PINCKNEY Age on opening day 2024: 23 How acquired: Drafted in fourth round in 2023 from University of Alabama Ranking: No. 19 per MLB Pipeline, NR per Baseball America MLB ETA: 2026* Projected by MLB Pipeline Signing bonus: $500,000 2023 levels: Rookie-level Florida Complex League, Single-A Fredericksburg, High-A Wilmington

In most World Series we can probably find an ex-Oriole or two or three to watch play on baseball’s biggest stage. Among the former Birds in this World Series is one of the real good guys, Arizona first baseman Christian Walker. He has found a home in Arizona since they acquired him in March of 2017 and the last two years he has hit 69 homers. While

The Orioles made some significant adjustments to their minor league structure last week by promoting Anthony Villa to director of player development and Matt Blood to vice president of player development and domestic scouting. Moves put into motion with Brad Ciolek vacating his position as director of draft operations. The ensuing months will revea

Frank Howard, the hulking slugger who won over a generation of Washington baseball fans with his towering home runs and genteel personality, has died at 87, the Nationals announced this afternoon. Affectionately known to fans as “Hondo,” “The Capitol Punisher” and “The Washington Monument,” Howard played 16 seasons in four major league cites and sp

The Washington Nationals join the Howard family in mourning the loss of Washington Senators great Frank Howard. Howard’s decades-long career as a player, coach and manager leaves an indelible legacy on the sport of baseball, and he will long be remembered as one of the best players to ever wear the Curly W. “Growing up a baseball fan in Washington