The Orioles have the best record in the American League and people and nobody outside of Orioles fans could have predicted it. The Orioles surprise rise to the top of the standings has left experts struggling to explain how they are doing this.  The Orioles don’t have an elite rotation or even a single Ace…

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At the end of this month MLB rosters will expand for the last month of the season. The Orioles have a bunch of players on the IL about to return as well as a few top prospects that are banging on the door of being called up so it will be interesting to see who…

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This trade deadline we saw a few big name starting pitchers move teams such as Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer but we also saw several teams who were “supposed” to trade their star pitchers decide to hold onto their players for a variety of different reasons.  I wanted to run through the biggest trades that…

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With 10 minutes to spare before the trade deadline the Orioles traded for Jack Flaherty from the St. Louis Cardinals. It was an interesting move because while it was not surprising that Flaherty was traded it was a little surprising that he was traded to the Orioles since he had been linked to the Dodgers…

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This is a non Orioles topic but I can’t stop thinking about what the Angels did this week when they announced that they would not be trading Shohei Ohtani and then followed that announcement up by trading for Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez. As I took in the immediate reactions of fans and media to…

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On Thursday the Orioles were playing their first game in a series of 4 against the Tampa Bay Rays. After 8 and half innings Félix Bautista entered a tie game in the bottom of the 9th inning. This was somewhat unusual for Félix who, as the closer, is typically only called in to lock down…

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The Orioles have a top heavy bullpen. The top 3 guys have been incredible and they have the best closer in Baseball which is awesome but meanwhile everyone else has been somewhere between OK and bad. Just this week they made their first trade for a reliever in Shintaro Fujimani and hopefully more moves are…

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The trade deadline is approaching and for the first time in years the Orioles are going to be buyers! (They better be or else I’ll have to intervene) I was actually just rereading moneyball and there’s a part where Billy Beane talks about how every season you have two teams, the one before the trade…

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This post was supposed to be about who the Orioles could trade for to bolster the current rotation but I rambled on for too long about the current rotation so instead this is more a mid season report card for the starting pitchers. At the start of the season many experts underestimated the Orioles because…

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Joey Ortiz is an elite defensive prospect who can play anywhere in the infield. Over the last year he has progressed as a hitter and gone from a glove first guy who’s offense was a bonus to an elite hitter in the minor leagues. This progress propelled him through the minors in the last year…

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