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The Orioles haven’t made a lot of noise outside the early rounds of the draft under Mike Elias. Of the Elias draftees currently on the 40-man roster, only Coby Mayo was drafted outside the top 100 picks of a draft (Mayo was pick 103 in the 4th round in 2020). However, with fast-rising prospects Jaiden […]
Hello, friends. There are 166 days remaining until the next scheduled Orioles game. Whether an Orioles game (or any MLB game) happens on that date or any time close after is not something we are going to know until probably mid-February, when spring training begins. I’m already dreading having nothing going on in December and […]
Not a lot of owners would have let Mike Elias do what he has done with the Baltimore Orioles. The post BP x Defector: What Process Are The Orioles Trusting? appeared first on Baseball Prospectus .
One of the nicest surprises of the Orioles’ minor league season was the power displayed by Ethan Anderson. A native of Hawaii, who grew up in the Norfolk area, Anderson was drafted as a catcher/first baseman from the University of Virginia in the second round in 2024. In 2025, Anderson’s first full season of professional […]
Question: With the Orioles’ 2026 year ending, I’m interested in your thoughts about mangers criticizing players publicity. Orioles manager Craig Albernaz has been critical of several players, including Jeremiah Jackson, Rece Hines and Samuel Basallo. It seems unprofessional to me. Accountability is important but should be addressed privately. I was impressed by the way Brandon […]
The Baltimore Orioles underperformed during the 2026 season. They entered the year with lofty expectations, but the Orioles ultimately missed the postseason. It will be interesting to see how Baltimore approaches the offseason. The Orioles may need to make some changes. Starting pitcher Trevor Rogers recently reflected on the ’26 campaign, via Ryan Ripken. “You […] The post Trevor Rogers gets brutally honest on Orioles’ inconsistent season appeared first on ClutchPoints .
Not a lot of owners would have let Mike Elias do what he has done with the Baltimore Orioles. This was true in a negative, how-dare-you-sir sense when the team's John Angelos–led ownership entrusted Elias with overseeing a more strategic approach to bottoming all the way out, following a 115-loss 2018 season in which then-GM Dan Duquette traded away every veteran he could before being fired that November. Those deals netted 15 players; of those, only Dean Kremer would go on to contribute posit...
The Orioles are cleaning house. Source
For almost the entirety of 2026, Baltimore felt the absence of a real closer. Sometimes it’d be Tyler Wells. Sometimes Yennier Cano. They’d even sometimes throw Grant Wolfram out there in the ninth, though they should have known better. None of this was by design. In August 2025, the Mountain toppled—Félix Bautista, one of the […]
The Orioles signed pitcher Luis De León out of the Dominican Republic in December 2021. His signing bonus was just $30,000. A high-strikeout, high-walk pitcher, De León struggled in the Dominican Summer League in as a 19-year-old, but slowly began working up the ranks of the minors. By the end of 2025, he had worked […]
O’s getting plenty of (mostly deserved) criticism now as team has missed playoffs two straight years
Hello, friends. There are now 167 days until the next scheduled Orioles game. Developments this week are a further signal that the chances of the 2027 season beginning as scheduled are not 100%. The Orioles, as you’ve probably already heard, laid off a bunch of business operations and game day staff, including the person who […]
Pete Alonso was unanimously voted the MVO, Most Valuable Oriole. There’s another MVO on the team, Most Versatile Oriole, and that’s Blaze Alexander. Alexander was acquired from the Arizona Diamondbacks just before spring training, and despite playing only 11 games in the second half of the season because of stints on the injured list for […]
Question: The poor draft choices and/or ongoing development of prospects has been well documented, but it is interesting to ponder the prospects that we have traded elsewhere who then blossomed or at least matured into viable players. Kyle Stowers comes to mind as he never fully received an opportunity at the big league level until […]
It’s become an annual ritual for the Orioles front office. Every offseason, when fans are clamoring for the O’s to sign a top-tier ace pitcher, Mike Elias inevitably says “no thanks” and instead throws some money at an aging, back-of-the-rotation veteran. It’s a tried-and-true formula that Elias continues despite the fact that it basically never […]
The Orioles gave up two productive veterans at the 2025 trade deadline, and Boston Bateman was the main reason why. One year later, the towering lefty looks like a smart bet and one of the most intriguing arms in Baltimore’s system. Back in 2024, the Padres took Bateman with the 52nd pick in the draft […]
We examine the top performers from the Orioles' 2026 draft class, sleeper names to know and plenty more. The post Baltimore Orioles 2026 MLB Draft Report Card appeared first on College Baseball, MLB Draft, Prospects - Baseball America .
Good morning Birdland, Yesterday was just the latest in a recent run of bad days for the Baltimore Orioles. Andy Kostka of The Baltimore Banner reported on Tuesday afternoon that the organization was laying off a significant number of business operations staff. He quoted one source calling it a “bloodbath” and relaying that the number […]
Once a team comes up with its projected salary for all of its arbitration-eligible players, it will begin a tender analysis to simply determine: “Are we comfortable guaranteeing Player X this much money?” If the answer is yes, the player will be tendered a contract prior to the mid-November Tender Deadline. Tendering a contract means […] The post Baltimore Orioles Arbitration Projections and Tender Decisions appeared first on Just Baseball .
I went there to write about the Orioles’ scouting efforts. It was an unforgettable trip. This post includes an audiobook-style reading of my award-winning article. (Note from John: In 1991, the Baltimore Sun sent me to the Dominican Republic to write about the Orioles’ scouting efforts there. It was among the most memorable and poignant […]
When the Orioles acquired Blaze Alexander, Jordan Westburg was reportedly only suffering from mild oblique discomfort. The team did not yet know that the former All Star would undergo Tommy John surgery and miss the duration of the season. Jackson Holliday, primed for a breakout year, suffered a broken hamate bone the day after Baltimore […]
It’s rare for the Mike Elias-led Orioles to use a moderately high draft pick on a pitcher. But that conventional wisdom went out the window a bit in the 2025 draft, when they selected Joseph Dzierwa and JT Quinn with a pair of second round picks just 11 slots apart. Based on how the duo […]
On the 593rd Sporticast episode, hosts Eben Novy-Williams and Jacob Feldman are joined by Baltimore Orioles owner and Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein. Rubenstein’s latest book, Inside the Owner’s Box: Power and Leadership in Sports, includes a detailed account of his own journey to buying the Orioles, which was the baseball team he grew up rooting […]
Question: Are sports one of the only businesses [maybe tech, finance or auto CEO?] where you can perform poorly and still get a massive raise? I’m thinking especially of Gunnar Henderson with the jump from $8.5 million to $14.1 million, but some other O’s players fit this category as well. And someone gets a raise […]
Yesterday’s action in the NL saw the Braves pull even with the reigning champion Dodgers and the Brewers take a comanding 2-0 lead over Manny Machado and the and Padres. Today, we shift back to the AL, with the White Sox and Rays looking to extend their series leads. From a former Orioles perspective, neither […]