PLAYER REVIEW: MITCHELL PARKER Age on Opening Day 2025: 25 How acquired: Fifth round pick, 2020 MLB Draft MLB service time: 1 year 2024 salary: $740,000 Contract status: Under club control, arbitration-eligible in 2027, free agent in 2030 2024 stats: 7-10, 4.29 ERA, 29 G, 29 GS, 151 IP, 154 H, 82 R, 72 ER, 18 HR, 43 BB, 133 SO, 2 HBP, 1.305 WHIP, 9

A common offseason activity for baseball media is flipping through pages of the last notebook used in search of tidbits that can be posted during slow times. Any newsy or interesting nuggets that were missed or held. Notations that serve as reminders for later use. I’m also reminded again that my handwriting looks like I’m wedging a pen between toe

Early this month, not long after the Orioles were eliminated from the American League playoffs by the Kansas City Royals, I expressed an opinion about the Orioles offense. An offense that produced solid stats over the full season but fell off big time late in the year. One way to break it down is with facts and going through a period where it was r

PLAYER REVIEW: DJ HERZ Age on Opening Day 2025: 24 How acquired: Traded with Kevin Made from Cubs for Jeimer Candelario, July 2023 MLB service time: 99 days 2024 salary: $740,000 Contract status: Under club control, arbitration-eligible in 2028, free agent in 2031 2024 stats: 4-9, 4.16 ERA, 19 G, 19 GS, 88.2 IP, 76 H,

It’s never too early to start thinking about spring training storylines. That’s a lie. It’s much too early. But there’s no harm in talking about a few topics in October. Can the roster hold Heston Kjerstad and Coby Mayo? There might not be two bigger curiosities in camp than this duo. Kjerstad was the second-overall pick in the 2020 draft, and you

Changes being made in the Orioles organization are happening beyond the coaching ranks and in the front office. Head athletic trainer Brian Ebel isn’t coming back for the 2025 season, according to multiple sources. Ebel just completed his seventh season in the role and his 40th in the organization. Assistants Mark Shires and Patrick Wesley remain w

PLAYER REVIEW: JAKE IRVIN Age on Opening Day 2025: 28 How acquired: Fourth round pick, 2018 MLB Draft MLB service time: 1 years, 152 days 2024 salary: $745,600 Contract status: Under club control, likely arbitration-eligible in 2026, free agent in 2030 2024 stats: 10-14, 4.41 ERA, 33 G, 33 GS, 187.2 IP, 173 H, 97 R, 92

Jumping around the baseball world with a few random notes and takes. Well at least this year the narrative that the top teams don’t win in baseball and that it’s hard to have a five-day layoff before the playoffs for division winners, were blown all to heck. We need a new narrative! Last year wild card teams played in the World Series when No. 5 se

Turns out, I didn’t empty the mailbag. The questions kept comin’ and I couldn’t keep up. Here are some leftovers for breakfast to go with your cold pasta and pizza. Maybe that half-eaten sub or the sushi roll that comes with a strict deadline for consumption. Or you could be weird and go with eggs and toast. Zach Eflin or Grayson Rodriguez on Openi

The Orioles have some important roster decisions coming soon. Within five days of the end of the World Series they have to decide if they will pick up club options for 2025 on a few players to include reliever Seranthony Domínguez. It comes down to a $7.5 million dollar decision. He’ll get $8 million if they pick up his option and a $500,000 buyout