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Don’t forget about these three Orioles pitching prospects
Braxton Bragg, Levi Wells, and Patrick Reilly all lost significant time to injuries in 2025, leaving questions about their development and big league potential. With all three eligible for the Rule 5 Draft this winter, Baltimore could have some decisions to make about protecting them on the 40-man roster, assuming the draft even takes place […]
Orioles news: No Gold Glove finalists for the team
Hello, friends. There are now 160 days until the next scheduled Orioles game. Will there be a game on March 25, 2027 between the O’s and Rays? Only labor negotiations in December, January, and February can answer that question. For now, there are the playoffs. The Rays and Guardians will play their third game today, […]
NLCS Game 3 Open Thread
Technically speaking, this game is not a “must win” for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Down 2-0 in a best-of-seven gives, the back-to-back champs still have a tiny room for error, and they are back in the friendly confines of Chavez Ravine, where they went 51-33 during the regular season. No one is going to be […]
At third base, the Orioles couldn’t spell success without CES
If Christian Encarnacion-Strand accomplishes nothing else in his baseball career, he’s already made it into the MLB record books. At 27 characters (including the hyphen), he has the longest full name of any player in major league history, shattering the previous mark of 22. It’s a moniker that may be a bit too unwieldy to […]
Kyson Witherspoon flashed his potential before hitting the IL
They say people grieve differently. How did you handle the 2026 trade deadline? The Orioles trading Adley Rutschman—the face of a long and painful rebuild under Mike Elias—marked a symbolic end to Baltimore’s first winning window. Rutschman had emerged as a beacon of hope during the dark years at the end of the last decade. […]
Orioles news: The ALCS is all evened up
Good morning Birdland, Well, we know that at least one of the LCS won’t be a sweep. The Rays evened up the junior circuit matchup at one game apiece with a 3-1 win over the Guardians on Tuesday night. All three of their runs came in a big fourth inning. That proved to be enough […]
ALCS Game 2 Open Thread
Probable pitchers: Rays’ RHP Freddy Peralta vs. Guardians’ LHP Parker Messick Where to watch: TBS/HBO MAX, TruTV, Univision/ TUDN The Guardians come into tonight’s Game 2 of the ALCS looking to take control of the series, while the Rays hope to even the series before heading up to Cleveland. Tampa Bay and Cleveland came into […]
Colton Cowser proved to be an elite defender in 2026, but his offense often didn’t keep up
No player encapsulated the volatile nature of the 2026 Orioles better than outfielder Colton Cowser. In some ways, 2026 was a year of big growth for Cowser. He cemented himself as the everyday center fielder with a massive defensive leap that few saw coming. However, his offensive performance epitomized the biggest problems in this Orioles […]
Orioles prospect season review: Michael Forret
Michael Forret isn’t just a pitching prospect. He’s also a potentially fascinating science experiment. You’ve heard of Rays Pitching Magic, right? The Tampa Bay organization, currently battling for the American League pennant, has a reputation for sprinkling metaphorical pixie dust on their pitchers to suddenly transform them into unhittable behemoths. The Rays have worked their […]
Orioles news: A rough day for former O’s pitchers
Good morning, Camden Chatters. Both the ALCS and NLCS are underway, and we’re one step closer to an all-Central division World Series as both the Milwaukee Brewers and Cleveland Guardians were winners yesterday. The Brewers’ 7-4 win over the Dodgers gave them a 2-0 series lead as the teams travel to Los Angeles today. It’s […]
LCS Open Chat
Waiting all day for Monday night. With respect to Monday Night Football, it’s still baseball season. The final four teams will be in action tonight with Game 2 of NLCS and Game 1 of the ALCS on the docket. The Dodgers and Brewers will play Game 2 after kicking off their series last night, while […]
Podcast: Orioles relievers were chaotic, better than expected
Heading into the season, the bullpen was probably the area of the Orioles that worried me the most. There were not enough proven arms and the one big signing Mike Elias made to address it, Ryan Helsley, was fresh off a horrible final two months of the season. This could have been really bad! At […]
Rico Garcia had a season with more highs than lows
Rico Garcia is everything that’s right with baseball. At 5-foot-9, he certainly doesn’t have the physical appearance of a hard-throwing, major league reliever. And coming into this season, the back of his baseball card looked more like a guy hanging onto the fringes of a 40-man roster for dear life than someone leading one of […]
Nestor German is stuck in the middle of Orioles pitching prospects
In the eight years that Mike Elias has been the head of baseball operations for the Orioles, he has been continually trying to find major league-caliber starting pitchers by loading up in bulk on 11th round-or-later draft picks, undrafted free agents, and the recent 3rd-5th round picks that other teams are willing to trade. Until […]
Orioles news: Pitcher extensions, SABR award, and more
Happy Monday, Camden Chatters! I hope you enjoyed the weekend, and if you’re one of those who is off today for the federal holiday, I hope you have a relaxing day. We’re still many months from the next Orioles game, but the League Championship Series has begun. Last night, the Brewers and Dodgers kicked off […]
NLCS Game 1 open chat
Are you ready for a rematch of the 2025 NLCS? The Dodgers swept the Brewers in last year’s NLCS in easy fashion. The Brewers scored just four runs in the series, one in each game. I, like most baseball fans I suspect, hope they can do better this time around. The final four teams standing […]
Orioles news: Cowser aims for a better 2027
Hello, friends. There are now 164 days remaining until the next scheduled Orioles game. The next several months will be full of trying to find fresh ways to express that there is uncertainty as to whether any game will be played on that date, whether spring training report dates will happen as scheduled, and so […]
ALDS Game 5 open chat
Poor Chicago. That could have gone better. After going up 2-0 against Cleveland in the American League Division Series, the White Sox returned home with a chance to clinch a playoff series at home for the first time since 1906. They failed to do that, though, dropping Games 3 and 4, in which Cleveland’s offense […]
Orioles news: A quiet day in Birdland
Good morning Birdland, There was no baseball yesterday, and it seems like the Orioles avoided stepping on yet another rake. So, there is little content on which to blog. But we will prevail! There will be a decisive Game 5 in the ALDS this evening. The White Sox and Guardians will face off at 8 […]
Coby Mayo’s make-or-break year ended up break-and-make
Going into 2026, this was clearly going to be a pivotal year where Coby Mayo had to prove that he was going to be something or else it might sink in that he will never be anything. Yet he was also stuck in a paradox, because it was not obvious when Mayo would even get […]
Jaiden Lo Re and DJ Layton made some noise in their first professional season
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 […]
Orioles news: Another wave of top 100 prospects
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 […]
ALDS Game 4 open chat
Three of the four Championship Series teams are set, and so far the postseason has gone straight chalk. In the National League, the #1-seeded Brewers and #2 Dodgers will square off for the second straight year. In the American League, the top-ranked Rays are ALCS-bound after sweeping the Yankees, to everyone’s delight. The Rays will […]
Ryan Helsley’s promising Orioles debut was cut short by injury
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 […]
Orioles’ Luis De León made a strong first impression
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 […]
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