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The First-Year Player Draft resumed this afternoon and the Orioles selected East Carolina second baseman Connor Norby with their second-round pick, No. 41 overall. Norby led the nation with 102 hits this year as he batted .415/.484/.659 with 15 doubles, 15 homers, 18 steals, 64 runs and 51 RBIs. He finished eight in the nation in batting average. He was named the American Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
Norby was ranked as the No. 25 prospect for this draft by FanGraphs.com, No. 44 by...
When his name wasn't included in the first list of National League All-Stars announced, Nationals ace Max Scherzer didn't fret. He's been around Major League Baseball long enough to know that other pitchers would have to be replaced because of injury or because they pitched Sunday. Scherzer was patient and awaited the call informing him of his eighth selection to the Midsummer Classic.
That announcement came yesterday, and today, Scherzer was named by NL manager Dave Roberts of the Dodgers...
Sam Houston State outfielder Colton Cowser said that when the Orioles invited him to Baltimore for a pre-draft workout, he knew they were serious about potentially making him the No. 5 overall pick in the First-Year Player Draft.
"It's a dream come true," he said late Sunday night in a Zoom interview. "I've dreamed about this and my family's invested a lot into me. You know they've sacrificed all the time. Just to be able to spend it with friends and family means the world to me."
For...
The Nationals veered off their typical course tonight and did not select a pitcher with their first pick of the First-Year Player Draft. But in making Brady House their choice at No. 11, they did go back to a familiar well they've tapped before when taking a position player.
House, a high school shortstop from Georgia, is only the second position player the Nats have selected with their first draft pick since 2011. The other was Carter Kieboom, a high school shortstop from Georgia.
The...
The Washington Nationals selected prep shortstop Brady House out of Winder-Barrow High School with the No. 11 selection in the 2021 First-Year Player Draft on Sunday. President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo, Assistant General Manager & Vice President of Scouting Operations Kris Kline and Director of Scouting Operations Eddie Longosz made the joint announcement.
House, 18, hit .549 (50-for-91) with 12 doubles, eight home runs, 20 RBI, 21 stolen bases, 29 walks, nine...
The Baltimore Orioles tonight selected outfielder Colton Cowser from Sam Houston State University (TX) with the fifth overall selection of the 2021 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.
Cowser, 21, hit .374/.490/.680 (76-for-203) with 16 home runs, 10 doubles, two triples, 61 runs, 52 RBI, and 42 walks in 55 games during his junior season in 2021. He ranked in the top five in the Southland Conference (SLC) in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, runs, hits, RBI,...
The 2021 First-Year Player Draft is defined by the number of high school shortstops residing near or at the top of boards across the industry.
The Orioles helped to steer it in a different direction tonight.
Executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias used the fifth-overall selection on Sam Houston State outfielder Colton Cowser.
This is the second year in a row that the Orioles chose an outfielder with their first pick, following the University of Arkansas' Heston Kjerstad, who still...
Manager Davey Martinez had hoped the Nationals could use the final game of a West Coast road trip to end a three-game skid, prevent a sweep by the Giants and head into the All-Star break with a little bit of positive momentum.
Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell Giants right-hander Kevin Gausman, who throttled the Nats in a 3-1 victory that gave his team a sweep of the three-game weekend series.
Gausman allowed only four hits through six-plus innings - three of them of the infield variety -...
Double-A Harrisburg's Cade Cavalli flashed a little of the triple-digit velocity that made him a first-round pick by the Nationals in the 2020 First-Year Player Draft during a one-inning relief stint in Sunday's All-Star Futures Game at Coors Field in Denver.
Relieving the Pirates' Quinn Priester to start the fifth inning with his National League team ahead 6-0, Cavalli struck out two and walked two during a 29-pitch inning. He threw 15 pitches for strikes and twice hit 100 mph on the radar...
The All-Star break is a time for rest and reflection, and Orioles manager Brandon Hyde knows exactly why his club has the worst record in the American League. Precisely what he's going to think about before play resumes Friday night in Kansas City.
"For me," he said this afternoon, "it just shows you how far away we are, pitching-wise."
Spenser Watkins tried to narrow the gap a little, maybe present Hyde with another option and keep earning more chances. He held the White Sox to one run in...