Orioles executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias wants to tackle the major league roster again but he’s also diving for depth. The club announced yesterday that it signed infielder Vimael Machin to a minor league contract. No word on whether the deal includes an invitation to spring training. Machin is 31 years old and two removed from h

The Orioles have made the following roster move:   Agreed to terms on a 2025 minor league contract with INF Vimael Machin.

With eight players, a manager and a strength coach from the Orioles organization, the Surprise Saguaros are chasing an Arizona Fall League championship. The six-team AFL will see its regular season end tomorrow. On Friday, the second and third place teams meet in a playoff semi-final game. The winner will advance to meet the No. 1 seed on Saturday

Most of the attention this time of year – and, really, most of the offseason – is on big names. Sluggers. Starting pitchers. Free agents seeking multi-year deals, hopefully helping transform franchises in the process. But there’s never been a Hot Stove League that ultimately wasn’t filled with dozens of relievers joining new clubs. And very often,

Questions are flowing into the mailbag. It’s like a valve is open. Major League Baseball hosts its quarterly owners meetings next week in New York. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America will begin announcing winners of its four major awards Monday with Rookie of the Year in both leagues. Colton Cowser is a finalist and will try to give the O

After producing a 44-homer season, hitting 11 more than he ever had previously, O's outfielder Anthony Santander tonight was named an American League Silver Slugger Award winner. A finalist the last three years, Santander is a first-time winner and joins Yankees Aaron Judge and Juan Soto as AL outfield winners. The O's had two other Silver Slugger

Over the weekend, an announcement that Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki will be posted by his current team, the Chiba Lotte Marines to come to the MLB in 2025, put a top pitcher out there that some team will get at a real bargain price. Because at age 23, Sasaki is too young to qualify to be signed as a “foreign professional” and he instead will be sig

If there’s only one player the Nationals are likely to pursue this winter, it’s an established slugger, preferably one who can play first base. If there’s a No. 2 item on general manager Mike Rizzo’s wish list, it’s probably an experienced starting pitcher, one who could help lead an otherwise young rotation to better days. This isn’t earth-shatter

My energy level isn’t allowing for a deep dive into anything beyond my couch, but Danny Coulombe’s removal from the bullpen adjusts the Opening Day projections. Not too soon to post them and not too soon to pivot. It isn’t common for a team to stand pat with its ‘pen, and I’d expect executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias to check the m

With one American League rookie award secured already, Orioles outfielder Colton Cowser tonight was named a finalist for the Baseball Writers’ Association of America's American League Rookie of the Year award for 2024. The other finalists are both Yankees: pitcher Luis Gil and catcher Austin Wells. The award winner will be announced a week from ton