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David Huzzard: In NL East, are Nationals battling themselves?

David Huzzard: In NL East, are Nationals battling themselves?
It is still early in the baseball season and yet it feels like it is over. The Nationals are 10 games over .500, while the second-place Braves are six games under. The National League East is a weak division and the Nationals are a team built to contend while the Mets are hampered by extraordinary bad luck, the Marlins have zero identity and an uncertain future, and the Braves and Phillies are both rebuilding teams on the right track but a year or two away from contention. The Nationals are...
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Luke Erickson: Do Nats have bullpen arms ready on the farm?

Luke Erickson: Do Nats have bullpen arms ready on the farm?
It's never been lost on me that some folks are only interested in the Washington farm insofar as who can replace (fill in name of player struggling). These days, it's the Nationals bullpen where the firemen are bringing the gas and not the water, if you know what I mean. Before I go any further, let me be very plain: I believe the Tony La Russa-style bullpen with so-called roles is both overblown and overrated. I'm with Dick Radatz, who famously sneered, "Your job is to throw strikes when...
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Marty Niland: Ideal closer for Nats might already be on the roster

Marty Niland: Ideal closer for Nats might already be on the roster
Sunday was another torturous day for Nationals fans as they watched the team's erratic late-inning relief corps blow leads in both ends of a split doubleheader, wasting fine performances from starters Gio Gonzalez and Max Scherzer. Only Michael A. Taylor's eighth-inning homer--a shot that glanced off the left-field foul pole--and Matt Albers' second appearance of the day saved the Nats from a sweep at the hands of a Phillies team that entered the day trailing the Nats by nine games in the...
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Andrew Stetka: Mora a bright spot during otherwise dark Oriole years

Andrew Stetka: Mora a bright spot during otherwise dark Oriole years
Orioles fans didn't have a whole lot to cheer about between 1998 and 2011. That's 14 years of losing, met with a lot of disappointment and sitting in the cellar of the American League East. There were few bright spots, but one of them was Melvin Mora, who spent about 10 years in Baltimore. As it turns out, Mora decided to spend more than that in the area. Mora made a decision to settle down in Harford County during his playing days. Despite spending time with the Rockies and Diamondbacks...
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David Huzzard: Mike Rizzo's mistake with the bullpen

David Huzzard: Mike Rizzo's mistake with the bullpen
The Nationals bullpen for the next couple months will be the main focus of the club because it is the glaring weakness of an otherwise near flawless team. The rest of the Nationals roster is a close-to-perfect construction of what a baseball team should be. I now sympathize with Mike Rizzo because I understand the mistake he made in the construction of the Nats bullpen. It wasn't that the Nats were unwilling to spend. They tried very hard to give away their money this offseason, but relievers...
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Zach Wilt: Celebrating Dylan Bundy Day

Zach Wilt: Celebrating Dylan Bundy Day
It's only mid-May, but I am happy to report that Dylan Bundy Day is officially a thing for Baltimore Orioles fans. Congrats, guys, we've made it happen. Every five days (or so), myself and fellow Orioles enthusiasts celebrate a day in which our team's best starting pitcher takes the mound. We wake up in the morning feeling refreshed and well rested from a good night's sleep, we're eager to watch our team that evening, and we feel confident in our starting pitcher's ability to earn a...
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Dillon Atkinson: All aboard the Norfolk shuttle

Dillon Atkinson: All aboard the Norfolk shuttle
In the past couple of seasons, depth for the back end of the Orioles rotation and front end of the bullpen has been fairly thin. For the most part, it was Tyler Wilson, Mike Wright, T.J. McFarland and - for 2016 only - Vance Worley. In 2017, Orioles executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette has made sure manager Buck Showalter has had more options to choose from, and the O's skipper is using all that he can. Wilson and Wright are still around, joined by Alec Asher, Logan...
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Luke Erickson: Sharing some minor league travel tips

Luke Erickson: Sharing some minor league travel tips
One of the joys of following minor league baseball is going to see your favorite team on the road. Since 2006, I've been to the stadiums of eight of the nine opposing teams in the Single-A Carolina League, and every Nationals affiliate north of Florida (including short-season Single-A Vermont in 2010). This week, I'm aiming to take care of the ninth Carolina League stadium (Buies Creek) while I'm on vacation here in North Carolina, though it'll be against the Salem Red Sox (the vacation was...
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Andrew Stetka: Britton's injury reveals disturbing trend, bigger test for O's

Andrew Stetka: Britton's injury reveals disturbing trend, bigger test for O's
As if the Orioles haven't been faced with enough challenges in the first month or so of the season, they'll now stare down another tough task. Zach Britton's latest setback is a tough pill to swallow for Orioles fans, and not just those that (cough, cough) may have him on their fantasy team. It was devastating to see the dominant closer go down on April 16 with the initial indications of the forearm strain. When he was reinstated last week and made two appearances in non-save situations,...
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Marty Niland: A Nats fan's response to a youngster in search of a team

Marty Niland: A Nats fan's response to a youngster in search of a team
Baseball fans may have heard the story of Pete Van Vleet of Ashland, Va., who wrote to every major league team, asking each to make a case for his newborn son, Jack, to be their fan. The 42-year-old Richmond native, a former colleague at The Associated Press, did not have a home team to root for growing up, and chose the Houston Astros because they were a National League contender in the early 1980s. He wants his kids to choose a team as he did. His 5-year-old daughter, Madeline, roots for the...
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Zach Wilt: Birds bounce back from ejections, but still deal with ripple effects

Zach Wilt: Birds bounce back from ejections, but still deal with ripple effects
There were many frustrating aspects to umpire Sam Holbrook's decision to eject Kevin Gausman in the bottom of the second during Wednesday night's Orioles-Red Sox game. For starters, Chris Sale threw behind Manny Machado the night before and got nothing more than a warning. Gausman got tossed for plunking Xander Bogaerts on a 77 mph breaking ball without either club receiving warnings from the crew. Who intentionally hits a guy with an off-speed pitch? Gausman's average fastball velocity,...
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David Huzzard: Nats dispelling some back luck by racking up wins

David Huzzard: Nats dispelling some back luck by racking up wins
Adam Eaton is out for the season, Bryce Harper left yesterday's game with a groin strain, the back end of the rotation is a mess with a career minor leaguer just being inserted as the fifth starter and then there's the bullpen, and I think we all know the problems there. Yet the Nationals are 19-9, the best record in the major leagues. The Nationals are having the same bad luck with starters staying healthy they've always had and now have issues with pitching depth. And yet they just keep...
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Dillon Atkinson: Machado displaying maturity through incidents with Red Sox

Dillon Atkinson: Machado displaying maturity through incidents with Red Sox
In a 10-day span, Orioles third baseman Manny Machado has been thrown at five times in two games. After the fifth one, Tuesday night from the live arm of Red Sox's ace southpaw Chris Sale, Machado finally had some choice words for the Red Sox, and he certainly didn't hold back his true feelings. He used many expletives in his postgame rant, stating that he has lost all respect for the Red Sox organization. I'll note that there may now be 29 teams - instead of 30 - in contention for...
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Luke Erickson: What it means to be the next man up on the farm

Luke Erickson: What it means to be the next man up on the farm
For those of you interested in gambl ... er, fantasy baseball, you're probably well aware of the depth charts that are created for the minors for dynasty leagues. But even if you're not, the Nationals have made you aware of who's the supposed next man up with their inability to dodge injuries. Adam Eaton is the latest starter to be lost for the season, and for now, the plan is to give backup Michael A. Taylor the chance to win the center field job for the third season in a row. This hasn't...
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Andrew Stetka: Baseball fandom is difficult

Andrew Stetka: Baseball fandom is difficult
Being a baseball fan is very hard. If you are devoted to a specific team in the way many readers of this website are devoted to the Orioles, it can be even harder. This is something I've written about in length over the years, but it deserves to be repeated. Especially after what we just saw. You live and die with every game and react to every play. That couldn't have been more on display this weekend in New York City, as the O's battled the Yankees. Over the past three days, the Orioles...
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Zach Wilt: Checking in on the O's at the 20-game mark

Zach Wilt: Checking in on the O's at the 20-game mark
I'll be honest, in baseball terms 20 is a pretty arbitrary number. Sure, it's nice and even, but it's just 12.3 percent of the way through the baseball season. In fact, if the Orioles weren't off yesterday, we probably all would have completely ignored the 20-game milestone and moved on without thinking twice about. But they were off, they're beginning a new series today, and 20 games seems like a great time to take a moment and reflect on what we've seen from our O's so far. The Birds...
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Dillon Atkinson: It's early, but Adam Jones looks like a new player

Dillon Atkinson: It's early, but Adam Jones looks like a new player
When you think of Orioles center fielder Adam Jones in his prime, what comes to mind? If you asked me, I'd bring up the obvious observations: 25-plus home-run hitter, .280-plus batting average, low on-base skills, free swinger and an all-around above average defender in center field. Oftentimes as Orioles fans, we took the good with the bad. Jones has been known as a frustrating hitter in two-strike counts, as fans would always point out, "Here comes the 1-2 slider in the dirt, and we know...
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Luke Erickson: Checking out some early-season surprises on the farm

Luke Erickson: Checking out some early-season surprises on the farm
We're roughly three weeks into the minor league seasons - still in small sample size territory, but large enough to use as a story peg take notice. Before you start champing at the bit for these guys to get promoted, remember two things: The entire league hasn't seen them yet, and there has to be a space for him at the next level. At Single-A Hagerstown, Daniel Johnson caught my eye last season by racking up nine assists and four errors last summer in 62 games for short-season Single-A...
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Andrew Stetka: A few thoughts on baseball's unwritten rules

Andrew Stetka: A few thoughts on baseball's unwritten rules
Baseball is stupid. It's a game that I love dearly and that I follow obsessively, but it's quite stupid sometimes. Maybe that's more of a referendum on me than anything else. Why would I pay so much attention and spend so much of my life on something that's stupid? I honestly don't have a good answer for that. Perhaps it's because baseball's stupidity only rears its ugly head occasionally, like this weekend in Baltimore. Grown men playing a game can seem silly to many people. Grown men...
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Marty Niland: Healthy Zimmerman makes a big difference for Nats

Marty Niland: Healthy Zimmerman makes a big difference for Nats
One big difference between the Nationals and Mets that allowed the Nats to sweep the weekend series with their National League East rivals was overall team health. Several key members of the Mets lineup were out with injuries all weekend, while the Nats' starting lineup was intact by Sunday. One member of the Nats who is clearly benefiting from relative good health early this season is first baseman Ryan Zimmerman. The team's first draft choice after moving to Washington made it through four...
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