From now until the end of the year, Camden Chat writers will be revisiting some of the biggest moments and storylines of the disappointing 2025 Orioles season. The Orioles and Dodgers had very different seasons. One team stumbled all over itself to begin the year, fired their manager, dealt with a ridiculous number of injuries, […]
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Happy Monday, Camden Chatters. The Orioles did something this weekend! They signed a starting pitcher, although it probably isn’t the pitcher you were hoping for. While you were out there hoping the Orioles would sign Tatsuya Imai or Ranger Suárez or Framber Valdez, instead they reunited with Zach Eflin on a one-year deal. The contract […]
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The Orioles are reuniting with one of their free agents from last season. USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reported on Sunday evening that the team is bringing back starting pitcher Zach Eflin. It’s a one-year contract with $10 million guaranteed, according to Jon Heyman. Eflin, who turns 32 early next season, was acquired from the Rays […]
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Good morning, Camden Chatters. The clock is running down on 2025, but not before we wish happy birthday to the Orioles’ president of baseball operations, Mike Elias, who turns 44 today. Elias has already given himself some early birthday presents this winter with the acquisitions of Pete Alonso, Shane Baz, Taylor Ward, Ryan Helsley, and […]
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Good morning Birdland, As many expected, the movement around baseball has slowed during this holiday period. The starting pitching market, where the Orioles’ focus remains, has been almost entirely static. Perhaps the decision coming from Tatsuya Imai next week will loosen things up. Although many outlets seem to regard Framber Valdez or Ranger Suárez as […]
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The Orioles have showed an aggressive, win-now mentality this offseason. But they’ve always got an eye on the future, too. And they’re pulling out all the stops to try to garner an extra 2027 draft pick through the Prospect Promotion Incentive system. As a refresher, PPI, created in 2022, was designed to encourage teams to […]
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Hello, friends. There are now 90 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day 2026. I hope that everyone who celebrated Christmas yesterday was able to have a nice and relaxing day. On account of yesterday having been Christmas, there will probably not be much happening in the baseball world today. Or maybe the sicko GMs will […]
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Good morning, Camden Chatters, and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. For Orioles fans, it feels like Christmas has come early. For the first offseason in what feels like forever, the O’s have acted aggressively and decisively — and spent a boatload of money — to improve their team. Pete Alonso, of course, was the […]
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Good Morning Birdland, A quiet period in MLB may be approaching. Baseball players, agents, and executives are people, and they also like to spend time with family around the holidays. With today being Christmas Eve, that could mean relatively few moves of significance in the next couple of days. But that’s OK! The Orioles have […]
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Throughout the heyday of the Buck Showalter Orioles, Baltimore’s bats became synonymous with one thing: power, and lots of it. Between 2013 and 2016, an Oriole led the American League in home runs for four straight seasons. In 2016, the O’s led all of baseball with 253 home runs as the Birdland Power Company lit […]
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Good morning, Camden Chatters. There are just nine days until it’s 2026, but we have a much longer wait until there’s actual baseball. Spring training games begin Feb. 20 and Opening Day is on March 26, more than three months away. Plenty of offseason remains until then, and only half of MLB’s top 50 free […]
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From now until the end of the year, Camden Chat writers will be revisiting some of the biggest moments and storylines of the disappointing 2025 Orioles season. Entering the 2025 season, Mike Elias had made multi-year commitments to pretty much nobody. The only free agent he’d ever given more than one guaranteed year was Tyler […]
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Happy Monday, Camden Chatters! We’re just three days to Christmas, so if the Orioles are going to make another big move this week, it will probably happen today or tomorrow. It feels greedy to hope for another big move just days after Mike Elias traded four prospects and a draft pick to the Rays for […]
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Hello, friends. There are now 95 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day 2026. If this weekend is any indication, things are not going to be sleepy from now until Christmas or even from then until the new year. Does Mike Elias have another (perhaps the last) substantial move in him before the calendar turns? A […]
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Good morning Birdland, This is the type of offseason that Orioles fans have been clamoring for since Mike Elias took control of the team back in 2018. Going into Friday, Elias had already been quite aggressive, trading for Taylor Ward and Andrew Kittredge, and signing Pete Alonso and Ryan Helsley. But the O’s EVP took […]
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The Orioles have struck at the starting pitching market. ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported on Friday afternoon that the Orioles are acquiring pitcher Shane Baz from the Tampa Bay Rays. Going back to Tampa in the trade is a package of four prospects: outfielder Slater de Brun, catcher Caden Bodine, outfielder Austin Overn, and right-handed pitcher […]
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The Orioles coaching staff for next season is officially locked in. The team announced the staff for new manager Craig Albernaz in a press release on Friday morning. The names of the coaches had largely already been reported prior to this announcement, though for some, this represents the first public confirmation of what their job […]
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I’ll be honest: I’ve never liked the strategy of not drafting pitchers. I get the risk with injured arms (“TINSTAPP“), but isn’t that what a draft is for? And how many position player prospects pan out, anyway? At any rate, this has been a signature of the last two Orioles front office/ownership regimes. Under owner […]
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Good morning, Camden Chatters. It’s time for your daily Orioles pitching update: The Orioles have not signed any pitchers yet. This has been your daily Orioles pitching update. Meanwhile, there’s some rotten news about a former Orioles All-Star pitcher, John Means. The lefty posted on Instagram that he tore his Achilles earlier this week, just […]
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The Orioles acquired a legitimate ace for the 2024 season when they traded for Corbin Burnes. Baltimore did its best to keep Burnes around for 2025 and beyond, but the former free agent eventually signed with the Diamondbacks. Burnes departure left the O’s banking on Zach Eflin and Grayson Rodriguez to lead the rotation last […]
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Hello, friends. There are now 98 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day 2026. We’ve made it down below the triple digits! After a flurry of activity around the winter meetings, the pace of big baseball news has slowed somewhat. Signings are still happening, particularly teams that are looking for relievers who didn’t jump early in […]
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In a 2025 season full of white flags, the biggest white flag of them all came for the Orioles in July. In the three weeks leading up to the July 31st trade deadline, the O’s executed eight trades that saw nine major leaguers head out the door—along with any dreams of fielding a competitive team. […]
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Good Morning Birdland, While much of the focus of Orioles fans has understandably shifted towards the rotation, there is another area that the team probably still needs to address. Are we cool with the current bullpen? Now, Mike Elias has made two major moves on the front already this winter. He reacquired Andrew Kittredge in […]
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From now until the end of the year, Camden Chat writers will be revisiting some of the biggest moments and storylines of the disappointing 2025 Orioles season. The 2025 Orioles weren’t just bad. They were also, in large part, unrecognizable. The O’s (briefly) tied a dubious major league record this year by using 70 different […]
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Good morning, Camden Chatters. The post-winter meetings offseason has been a bit of a snooze so far. After the excitement that was the Pete Alonso signing last week, not much has happened for the Orioles or any other team in the few days since. We’ve seen a couple of less-heralded signings — Tyler Rogers to […]
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