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End of Season Report Cards – What the Orioles returning players need to do better in 2026 (part 1)
The 2025 Orioles season has mercifully ended. If I had to choose one word to describe this past season I would have a hard time picking between disappointing and embarrassing. Maybe I’d combine them and create a new word like disabaressing or embapointing. This season featured a 20 point loss, a spoiled 8 run lead,…
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Mike Elias’ top secret promotion
Last week it was announced that Mike Elias was promoted to President of Baseball Operations last offseason. If that seems like a weird sentence it’s because it is. For reasons that aren’t entirely clear the Orioles decided that Mike Elias’ promotion to POBO needed to be kept secret. Even the reporting in the Athletic remains…
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5 aspirational veterans the Orioles could acquire this offseason if they have the courage
A few weeks ago both Gunnar Henderson and Jordan Westburg gave interesting quotes to the media highlighting the fact that the Orioles had dealt the team’s clubhouse leaders at the trade deadline and that the team needs outspoken veteran leadership. Henderson and Westburg are the two guys who are most suited to taking on a…
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Credit, Concern, and Everything Else That Comes With Signing A Big Extension
Yesterday the Orioles signed their top prospect Samuel Basallo to an 8 year 67 million dollar guaranteed extension, with a team option and escalators that can get the deal up to 9 years 88.5 million. This extension is a major departure for how the Orioles have done things during Mike Elias’ tenure in fact since…
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What does Jordan Westburg’s comments about “Forcing the Front Office’s Hand” mean?
The Orioles had a good week! They got their first walkoff, saw multiple exciting prospects make their debut and won 2 series against playoff teams. In the Sunday afternoon postgame after the Orioles had just bludgeoned the Astros 12-0 Jordan Westburg gave a quote to the Orioles beat reporters that caused quite a stir. “Look,…
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10 Reasons to keep watching the 2025 Baltimore Orioles
The Orioles are at a weird part of the schedule. They are 12 games under .500 and they aggressively sold at the deadline so they’ve clearly waved the white flag on the season but there are still 44 games left to be played before we can all go home. I watch all the Orioles games…
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What Stood Out About the Orioles Trade Deadline
Deadline day is hectic. There are livestreams of people reacting to trades, there are posts and opinions and crash outs. It’s a fun day on the internet although admittedly less fun if your team is being dismantled. The Orioles made a lot of trades this year. If you count the Bryan Baker trade from a…
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Orioles Trade Deadline Preview – 87 starting pitching prospects that could start for the Orioles in 2026
There are a lot of things about being a seller at the deadline that are not fun, one of those things is that you are trading away players that you know, whose jersey you own and have given you great moments in exchange for prospects you haven’t heard of, whose jersey you don’t own and…
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The Orioles Should Be Willing to Do Almost Anything for 2026 Starting Pitching
When I saw the news that Grayson Rodriguez had suffered another elbow related setback in his rehab I got dizzy. I tried to focus what the article was saying but the letters in the headline floated up into the air and rearranged themselves in front of me and here is what it said: The Orioles…
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What is the correct opinion to have about the Trevor Rogers/Kyle Stowers trade?
Sunday was a big day for all the members of the Trevor Rogers trade. In the morning Trevor Rogers threw 6.1 shutout innings in a low scoring win against the Braves, in the afternoon Connor Norby went 0-3 and in the evening it was announced that Kyle Stowers had made the All Star team. Stowers…
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