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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This blog will be a bit shorter than the last 2 because there is only one prospect left to talk about and that is Samuel Basallo. Basallo is currently the Orioles #2 prospect and the #17 prospect in all of baseball.  Unlike the other guys we have talked about so far who have either already…

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If you thought finding room in the outfield for Colton Cowser and Heston Kjerstad was difficult then get ready for the even bigger challenge of finding room for Coby Mayo and Connor Norby in the infield.  The reason that it is so much more difficult to find spots for Mayo and Norby is because for…

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The thought for this came up as I tried to theorize what the Marlins might want in a trade for Jesus Luzardo and what the Orioles would prefer to give up in a deal for Jesus Luzardo or any other really good pitcher that might become available via trade.  Over the past few seasons as…

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When the Orioles traded for Corbin Burnes it seemed like they had put the finishing touches on an excellent rotation with 2 of the best pitchers by ERA last season in Burnes and Bradish at the top, a rising star in Grayson Rodriguez, a former All Star now almost 2 years off his Tommy John…

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Between the announcement of the team selling and the Corbin Burnes trade this past week was one of the best weeks to be an Orioles fan in many years. So I wanted to take a quick break from all the NBA blogs to dive into what the sale means for the O’s and why the…

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Last year’s trade deadline was perhaps the craziest ever with the Brooklyn Nets detonating what was left of their super team, the Lakers saving their season by bringing in some real role players and most importantly of all the Nuggets got 2 second round picks for Bones Hyland.  This year the Nets are currently poised…

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After a tumultuous first half of the season the Bucks fired their first year head coach Adrian Griffin. The year got off to a weird start when assistant coach, and long time friend of Damian Lillard, Terry Stotts stepped down after Adrian Griffin verbally undressed him in a practice.  When this news came most people…

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This year the NBA is going back to the traditional East VS West format for the all star team which is interesting because the all star draft was very popular and the way that the NBA was evolving the draft (originally doing it in secret then televising it then doing it live at the game)…

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