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A week has passed since I stuck my head inside my mailbag. And I've been told many times to get my head out of my mailbag. Or something similar.
You ask, I answer, you ask again and I'm either accommodating or a jerk. It's fun for the whole family.
Your questions and my responses are unedited. We run with scissors here. We pet stray dogs. We go to 24-hour diners and order fish at 2 a.m.
We live on the edge.
Also, my mailbag takes the last chocolate chip cookie on the tray and leaves your...
The Baseball Writers' Association of America will announce the results of the Hall of Fame voting on Jan. 25. A recent update from Ryan Thibodaux (@NotMrTibbs), Twitter's king of Cooperstown calculators, had David Ortiz (83.2 percent), Barry Bonds (80.4) and Roger Clemens (79) above the 75 percent threshold for induction.
No ballot is perfect. The inclusion of "cheaters" sickens fans or validates their beliefs. The media tries to figure out where lines should be drawn. Sadly, they're more...
What are the two biggest free agent signings in Nationals history? Max Scherzer and Jayson Werth, obviously. (We're talking about guys who were signed after playing for other clubs, not the re-signing of homegrown players like Stephen Strasburg or Ryan Zimmerman.)
Both of those moves sent major shockwaves throughout the baseball world. The Scherzer signing (for seven years and $210 million) added one of the game's best starting pitchers to a rotation that already looked loaded before his...
When you look at the various lists of Orioles top prospects, most of them will have more hitters than pitchers among the top 10. That is certainly true of MLBPipeline.com, which ranks hitters as six of its top nine prospects for the Orioles, and Baseball America, which ranks hitters in six of the top eight spots.
And these include high draft picks the club has made since executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias and his staff took over before the 2019 season. He has been here for...
The Orioles on Tuesday unveiled plans to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Oriole Park at Camden Yards throughout the 2022 season. The Orioles will begin the year-long celebration of The Ballpark That Forever Changed Baseballâ„¢ with festivities leading up to an exciting Opening Day when they host the Toronto Blue Jays on March 31, and continuing through the duration of the season.
Since April 6, 1992, when the Orioles hosted the first game at Oriole Park, it has become an iconic venue in...
If you listen to the Orioles on radio, you'll need to change your pre-set channel - well, channels - to catch baseball action during the 2022 season.
The Orioles today announced a multi-year partnership, naming Hearst's 98 Rock FM and WBAL NewsRadio AM/FM the new flagship stations of the Orioles Radio Network. The six-year deal also includes unique cross-promotion on WBAL-TV.
Beginning in 2022, fans can hear all 162 regular season games, select Spring Training contests and extensive Orioles...
The Orioles today announced a multi-year partnership naming Hearst's 98 Rock FM & WBAL NewsRadio AM/FM the new flagship stations of the Orioles Radio Network. The six-year deal also includes unique cross-promotion on WBAL-TV.
Beginning in 2022, fans can hear all 162 regular season games, select Spring Training contests, and extensive Orioles programming on Hearst platforms, including 98 Rock (97.9 FM), WBAL NewsRadio AM 1090 & FM 101.5 (& FM 97.9 HD 2), and across the seven-state,...
For the better part of a decade, the Nationals built a consistent contender around one critical part of their roster more than any other: the rotation.
From 2012-19, the Nats rotation produced a 3.56 ERA. Only the Dodgers (3.32) were better across the majors during that extended span. Only once during those eight years did the rotation's ERA exceed 4.00 or rank worse than seventh in the big leagues (2018, when it checked in at 4.03).
That's what made the last two seasons so jarring for anyone...
According to stats on FanGraphs.com, Orioles pitchers collectively averaged 93 mph with their fastball velocity in 2021. At one time, that number may have been among the best in the majors, but it only ranked tied for 20th last season. The New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox tied for the major league lead, averaging 94.7 mph per fastball.
Among O's pitchers throwing 20 innings or more last season, just four averaged 95 mph or more.
96.8 mph - Tanner Scott 95.9 mph - Connor Greene 95.5 mph -...
While we have taken some space here in recent days to begin to size up 2022 Orioles rotation candidates - and will continue to do some of that moving forward - let's take a look at the bigger picture today.
That is, the rotation as a whole and how should team management approach it this coming season?
Plan A: The club has reached an agreement with right-hander Jordan Lyles. At a minimum, they hope he can eat some innings allowing younger pitchers more time to get minor league seasoning...