The man who is credited with teaching the Orioles how to win is being mourned today throughout the baseball industry. The words hit especially close to home in Baltimore. The pain digs especially deep. Hall of Famer Frank Robinson has passed away after a lengthy battle with bone cancer. He was 83. Updates on the severity of Robinson's condition began to circulate at the Winter Meetings in Las Vegas, including how he was in hospice care in Southern California, and the news remained dire at...

Here is all you need to know about Frank Robinson's massive impact on the Orioles: They have won three World Series since moving to Baltimore in 1954, and two of those three came during Robinson's six seasons with the club between 1966 and 1971. So, two World Series titles in six seasons with Robinson and one in the other 59 seasons he was not on the club as a player. Taking that further, they played in four World Series in his six seasons and twice in the other 59 years. They won 100 or more...

Vowing back in December to proceed slowly through the free agent market while seeking to upgrade the roster, Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias has acquired his first player on a major league deal. Veteran right-hander Nate Karns has agreed to a one-year contract guaranteeing $800,000 with a possible $200,000 in incentives based on innings pitched, according to an industry source. Karns, 31, can max out at 100 innings, a total he's reached once in parts of five...

As spring training fast approaches, it's time to break down the state of the Nationals roster, position by position. The series concludes today with the outfield ... You would think that, with only six shopping days left until pitchers and catchers report, the Nationals would have long since known which three outfielders would be taking the field for opening day 2019. You, of course, would be wrong. Sure, the Nats have prepared all along to enter the coming season without Bryce Harper. But as...

For the Orioles' versatile Steve Wilkerson, the 2017 season was a very solid one. He was hoping 2018 would find him competing for a job as the club's utility infielder who can also play some outfield. That didn't happen and 2018 was a real challenge for him, even though he will always remember it as the year he made his major league debut and checked off a few firsts. The Orioles selected Wilkerson in the eighth round in 2014 out of Clemson. Mostly a second baseman for his first three years...

Major League Baseball is getting serious about quickening the pace of a game. And, MLB isn't just talking about cutting a few minutes here and there. The idea is to get away from games that drag for three hours. It's better to get the average time of game down to 2 hours, 30 minutes. MLB is discussing several rule changes with the players association. ESPN's Jeff Passan writes that his sources say that owners and players are thinking about a variety of ideas and rule changes that would...

Given how effective he was for them last season - when healthy and when used strategically - Jeremy Hellickson always loomed as an enticing pitching option for the Nationals to bring back in 2019. Sure enough, the two sides have worked out a deal to reunite. And more than a month earlier than they worked out last year's deal. Hellickson has agreed to terms on a one-year, major league contract that guarantees him $1.3 million, with an additional $4 million possible via incentives, according to...

One of the offseason trends for the Orioles involves the hiring of college coaches to minor league positions, and the announcements coming via their Twitter accounts. Social media working its magic again. The latest confirmation arrived Tuesday night, with Matt Trate tweeting that "my family and I are looking forward to the next chapter with @Orioles as I have accepted a position as a MiLB hitting coach." Trate had been working as associate head baseball coach/recruiting coordinator at...

MLB Network handed out plaudits that include a couple of Nationals that are likely to be manning the outfield at Nats Park this season. In a recent segment called "Right Now!" MLB Network ranked Juan Soto as the sixth-rated left fielder in the their Top 10. MLB Network analyst and 11-year big league veteran Eric Byrnes said of Soto: "You could put him No. 1 and I'm not gonna argue, that's how good of a season he had. When he came up, he was doing things that you don't see 10-year seasoned...

As spring training fast approaches, it's time to break down the state of the Nationals roster, position by position. The series continues today with the infield ... Despite significant changes across just about every other part of the roster, the Nationals' infield returns almost entirely intact in 2019 - with one notable exception at second base. Daniel Murphy, one of the best all-around hitters in baseball, has moved on after spending most of the last three years in D.C. terrorizing...