Nats bolster scouting department with hiring of Orioles' Ciolek
The Nationals are adding another experienced name to a revamped scouting department, hiring Brad Ciolek away from the Orioles to serve as senior director of amateur scouting, a source familiar with the move confirmed. Ciolek spent 12 of the last 13 seasons with the Orioles in a variety of roles, most recently as director of draft operations. Owner
PLAYER REVIEW: CARTER KIEBOOM Age on Opening Day 2024: 26 How acquired: First-round pick, 2016 draft MLB service time: 2 years, 167 days 2023 salary: $733,400 Contract status: Under club control, arbitration-eligible in 2025, free agent in 2028 2023 stats: 27 G, 94 PA, 87 AB, 12 R, 18 H, 2 2B, 0 3B, 4 HR, 11 RBI, 0 SB, 0 CS, 6 BB, 27 SO, .207 AVG,
For Orioles right-hander Kyle Bradish, who pitched like an ace during the 2023 season, a key start along the way to doing that came on the West Coast in early June. He faced the San Francisco Giants. He would last just four innings and allow seven hits and three runs. It was not a terrible start, but a short one, and it left Bradish with a 4.13 ERA
Matt Swartz at MLBTradeRumors.com created a model to project salaries for arbitration-eligible players, which the site has published for 13 years. Is it 100 percent accurate? Of course not, because that would be impossible. But he nails some and comes darn close with others. That's to be expected with an algorithm that, as the site describes it, “l
PLAYER REVIEW: CJ ABRAMS Age on Opening Day 2024: 23 How acquired: Traded with MacKenzie Gore, Robert Hassell III, James Wood, Jarlin Susana and Luke Voit from Padres for Juan Soto and Josh Bell, August 2022 MLB service time: 1 year, 130 days 2023 salary: $724,200 Contract status: Under team control, possibly Super 2 arbitration-eligible in 2025, f
When the Orioles went to a six-man rotation late in the season this year it proved to be pretty important. How much so? At his season-ending press conference yesterday manager Brandon Hyde didn't pull punches on it. Said Hyde: “For me, when we decided to go to a six-man rotation, that possibly was a season-saver. Because I feel like all those guys,
The reflection period after the last playoff game also covers press conferences in the auxiliary clubhouse at Camden Yards, where the ballpark was eerily quiet yesterday. No one milling around the concourses. No prep work for Game 5 of the American League Division Series. Sort of like a bug-out but without taking down the tents. The place will be h
More players arrived at Camden Yards this morning to pack their belongings. Others hopped in cars or boarded flights home. Félix Bautista arrived before 11 a.m. to get further instructions on rehabbing his right elbow, an arduous task that begins in a few days in Sarasota. The Orioles’ offseason is in its infancy stages, which precludes executive v
PLAYER REVIEW: LUIS GARCÍA Age on Opening Day 2024: 23 How acquired: Signed as international free agent, July 2016 MLB service time: 2 years, 142 days 2023 salary: $739,000 Contract status: May be Super 2 arbitration-eligible in 2024, free agent in 2028 2023 stats: 122 G, 482 PA, 447 AB, 61 R, 119 H, 18 2B, 4 3B, 9 HR, 50 RBI, 9 SB, 4 CS, 27 BB, 60
Since Jordan Westburg struck out at Globe Life Field on Tuesday night and the Rangers' sweep of the Orioles in the American League Division Series became final, there have been a few opinions expressed as to why they lost, how they lost and what went wrong. OK, not a few, but an avalanche of opinions. Just when you think you can’t possibly hear or
The end was laid out early for us, the six runs scored over the first two innings in Game 3 of the American League Division Series. And yet, it felt so abrupt. Funny how that works. A strikeout with two down in the top of the ninth inning, Rangers sprinting out of the dugout to celebrate, Orioles staying in theirs to watch and maybe learn. The hurt