It’s awards season around baseball as the offseason continues. Major League Baseball handed out several individual awards and named the All-MLB teams on Thursday. And the Baseball Writers' Association of America announced the finalists for its major awards this past week, with the winners to be announced over the next four days. Unsurprisingly, the

Without notes in front of him or knowledge of which questions he’d field Friday afternoon during his 27-minute video call with the local media, Orioles executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias performed a mental checklist of rehabbing players and their progress. Colton Cowser is fine after his October surgery to repair a fractured left h

The Orioles today announced their 2024 Holiday Gift Guide, featuring a variety of ticket offers, gift cards, merchandise, and Birdland Memberships, ensuring there is something to make every O’s fan happy this holiday season.  Fans can get a head start on their holiday shopping during the Orioles Team Store Black Friday Sale on Friday, November 29,

For some pro baseball players, a long, long season will end tonight in the Arizona Fall League championship game. O’s top 30 prospect Creed Willems is one of that group. Spring training was a long time ago and so was his Opening Day with High-A Aberdeen April 5. It was a year where he missed several weeks mid-summer with a left hamstring injury. Bu

The Arizona Fall League season wraps up tonight with the annual championship game, and members of the Nationals organization will be participating. Thanks to a 13-4 victory over the Scottsdale Scorpions in Friday night’s semifinal, the Salt River Rafters earned the right to face the Surprise Saguaros in tonight’s championship in the desert. The Raf

The big news yesterday wasn’t a free-agent signing or trade. It wasn’t impactful to the 40-man roster. Maybe later. Moving in and lowering the left field wall makes it easier to recruit right-handed hitters who otherwise might grew frustrated by fly balls dying on the track. The Oriole bird logo should be replaced by Ryan Mountcastle tilting back h

The Orioles went a little too far in pushing back their left field wall, prompting some changes in the other direction for the 2025 season. Executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias announced today in a video call that the baseball operations department after careful deliberation has “decided to pursue modifications to the dimensions in l

If the Orioles felt strongly enough about outfielder Heston Kjerstad to put him on their playoff rosters the last two Octobers – and they did do that – could he be in their starting outfield on Opening Day 2025? If the O’s lose free agent slugger Anthony Santander to another team, could Kjerstad take his spot in right field? One argument against or

Organizational prospect rankings, by their nature, are going to fluctuate year to year. And this has especially been true for the Nationals, who have seen their farm system completely overhauled in recent seasons. As recently as 2021, the organization’s top 10 list (as compiled by Baseball America) was headlined by three homegrown pitchers (Cade Ca

A few questions stuck to the bottom of the mailbag again. An attendant at Sinai Hospital told me that eight ounces or more of cherry juice lowers blood pressure. The bottle must have leaked. It never should have been inside the mailbag. That’s my fault. You ask and I answer. Here we go. Any new minor league signings to report? Yes. The club announc