I haven't seen a ground ball hit in three weeks, but I've been fielding a bunch of questions from home.
When will the season start? Will there actually be a season? How many games will be played?
Are you still wearing that same T-shirt?
(Sorry, that last one is from my fiancée.)
There are legitimate curiosities and concerns about the impact of a prolonged interruption. What's missing are solid answers.
Can Chris Davis pick up where he left off in spring training? Can anyone?
Davis...
Chris Davis is safe at home, feeling blessed that the coronavirus hasn't touched his family. His wife and three young daughters, including 2-year-old twins, are fine. His friends are healthy.
He's making many of the same adjustments as everyone else in his everyday life while unsure when he's going to be able to go back to work.
Or if he'll be working in 2020.
As the player representative with the Orioles, Davis has been gathering information on every conference call and sharing it with his...
Getting tired of jigsaw puzzles yet? You've cleaned the house to within an inch of its life and you're down to binge-watching the first (and final) season of "My Mother the Car."
About this time, of course, you should be doing the heel-of-hand-to-forehead move as you remember that MASN continually brings you the best moments in Orioles history. So as most of us - apart from the grocery clerks, the first responders, the medical personnel and others who still venture into their regular work...
Following up its recent announcement that Minor League Baseball players would be financially covered through April 8, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that it has extended financial support until May 31 or until the beginning of the minor league season, whichever occurs first.
MLB said players will continue to receive medical benefits and may continue to use any balance they have in the college scholarship plan or continuing education program. In addition, each club will make its own...
We should be getting ready for the Nationals' home opener against the Mets today. We should be preparing to hoist a championship banner on South Capitol Street. We should be choosing our most favorite t-shirt, jackets and caps from the World Series run, and high-fiving random fans we run into on the Metro, in line at the ballpark or in the stands who are our baseball twins.
While the coronavirus might have robbed us of that for the time being, it can't erase the memories of a great postseason...
They packed themselves into Nationals Park, nearly 44,000 strong, for a party 86 years in the making. They came to watch a major league team from Washington win a pennant for the first time since 1933. And when the home ballclub stormed out to a 7-0 lead after one inning, all that was left for everyone to do was count down the outs until it was official.
Game 4 of the National League Championship Series was not a simple, by-the-book, three-hour party, though. It wound up including a couple of...
If the 2020 First-Year Player Draft is going to consist of just five rounds, the Orioles would make six draft picks this summer, sometime in June or July. The draft date is to be announced later. It was originally going to be a draft of 40 rounds from June 10-12.
Since we also know that Major League Baseball is going to freeze the bonuses from the 2019 amounts, we know what the slot values will be for the Orioles for 2020. Here are their selections and the bonus amount from that spot from last...
The regular season for the Orioles should be four games old. A home series against the Yankees completed and the middle game pending in a home series against the Red Sox.
The first trip to St. Louis since 2003 was supposed to happen over the weekend, followed by a four-game series in the Bronx.
Instead, the coronavirus pandemic has left us wondering if there will be a 2020 season and whether the Orioles will return to Sarasota for a second version of spring training.
The Ed Smith Stadium...
With nearly 39 million students currently learning at home in the United States and Canada, the Orioles today announced the early return of the Summer Slugger program and the launch of the Digital Kids' Corner. These tools aim to keep students mentally active and engaged while at home by providing stimulation, education, and entertainment to young baseball fans.
The Summer Slugger program is part of Major League Baseball's partnership with EVERFI, the leading education technology platform and...
The few Nationals players and staffers who remain in West Palm Beach, Fla., are no longer allowed to use the club's spring training complex.
FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches has become a testing site for the coronavirus, according to Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo, which has forced the 13 players and handful of staffers who had been utilizing the facility to stay in their respective homes and proceed with individual workouts and training on their own.
A clause in the working contract...