This year it feels like more teams than ever feel like they have a shot at making the playoffs. As of right now in the National League the Washington Nationals are in 13th place and are just 6 games out of a playoff spot. Basically any team in the National league can have a good

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Yesterday the Orioles were swept by the Houston Astros and it feels like the sky is falling. Despite the fact that the O’s are having a great month where they’ve played almost every single day against a lot of the very best teams in the league these losses against the Astros feel like they’ve exposed

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Last week the Orioles put out a SICK hype video announcing a long term contract with… T. Rowe Price for a big sponsorship deal that includes most notably a jersey sleeve patch. Ever since the new CBA announced that teams could start putting sponsored patches on their jerseys many teams, in fact most teams, have

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One of the biggest disappointments of this Orioles season was Jackson Holliday’s debut and subsequent time in the Majors this year. Coming out of spring training where he played very well many people including myself wanted and expected him to make the Major League roster. When he didn’t there was a lot of discussion about

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Last week we got the terrible news that both John Means and Tyler Wells are going to be out for the rest of the season. This sucks for both of those guys because of how hard they worked to get back from their last Tommy John surgeries and it also sucks because they were both

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So far at just over 50 games into the regular season the Orioles regular hitters ranked in by OPS As a bonus here are the numbers of the prospects that have gotten some at bats  Kyle Stowers – .924 (it was .584 like 2 games ago but that is what a hot stretch will do

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Ever since the 2022 season the Orioles Bullpen has been one of the team’s biggest strengths. In 2022 Jorge Lopez was an All Star, Felix Bautista broke out, and Cionel Perez had a 1.40 ERA. In 2023 Felix Bautista was a legit Cy Young Candidate, Yennier Cano was an All Star and last second addition

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The Last Oriole to win the MVP was Cal Ripken Jr in 1991. Now 33 years later the Orioles have another franchise shortstop and it looks like in just his second full season he might win the award.  Gunnar Henderson has come out of the gates on fire.  He is tied for the American league

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With the playoffs around the corner and 20 teams that will be participating in them all but locked in, I want to look at these 20 teams and try to sort out how much pressure each team is under.  Playoff pressure can come from many different sources, it can come from your best player potentially

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We are just 2 weeks away from the Orioles’ last spring training game and the competition between position players to decide who will get the last up in the air 26 man roster spots is heating up. There are veterans who have been with the team for years competing with top prospects who appear to

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