SARASOTA, Fla. - Orioles manager Buck Showalter said Zach Davies will start Saturday against the Braves in Orlando, wrapping up the Grapefruit League schedule. Davies went 3 2/3 innings against the Rays on Monday and allowed one run on Evan Longoria's homer. Showalter is taking a handful of regulars to Orlando on Thursday, including Manny Machado, Delmon Young, Everth Cabrera and Steve Pearce. Nolan Reimold also is on the trip. Bud Norris threw 84 pitches today at Twin Lakes Park. Cabrera...

Since Baseball America released its first list of the top 100 prospects in baseball in 1990, just six Orioles minor leaguers have made the top six on that list. Here is the rundown: No. 1 - Matt Wieters in 2009 No. 2 - Dylan Bundy in 2013, Ben McDonald in 1990 No. 3 - Jeffrey Hammonds in 1994 No. 5 - Brian Matusz in 2010, Arthur Rhodes in 1992 No. 6 - Arthur Rhodes in 1991 New Oriole Travis Snider can relate to the players on this list. Coming up as a young player with the Toronto Blue Jays, he...

ORIOLES QUICK WRAP Score: Orioles 3, Pirates 3 Recap: Chris Tillman allowed two runs and three hits in five innings, with no walks and eight strikeouts. He retired 11 of the last 12 batters. Pedro Alvarez hit a two-run homer off Tillman in the second inning to break a scoreless tie. Everth Cabrera hit his first spring home run in the third inning, and he got all of it. He tied the game in the seventh with an RBI triple and scored on Alejandro De Aza's infield hit. Brian Matusz allowed four...

Orioles director of player development Brian Graham talked to minor league pitcher Pat Connaughton on Tuesday. Tonight, he told me about that conversation and sounded very much like someone who expects to see Connaughton return to the Orioles. He just doesn't know exactly when that might be. In an interview on Boston radio station WEEI Monday, Connaughton said there was a chance he would not report to the Orioles this year. He just completed his senior season on the Notre Dame basketball team...

SARASOTA, Fla. - Everth Cabrera didn't short-change himself tonight when hitting his first home run of the spring. Cabrera crushed one to left-center field off Francisco Liriano in the bottom of the third inning to reduce the Pirates' lead to 2-1. His season-high in home runs is four in 2013. Cabrera is 2-for-6 lifetime against Liriano in the regular season. Expected to get most of the starts at shortstop in J.J Hardy's absence, Cabrera is 15-for-54 (.278) with three doubles, a triple and...

SARASOTA, Fla. - Orioles right-hander Miguel Gonzalez will pitch in a minor league game on Friday while Ubaldo Jimenez starts against the Braves. Manager Buck Showalter is carefully lining up his starters as the final days of camp melt away. "It just kind of fits whether somebody ends up in the 'pen or starting, they're all available on Monday," Showalter said. "It keeps everybody in play. Plus, I do think Ubaldo's had enough of the gray (road) pants." The starter for Saturday's...

JUPITER, Fla. - The Nationals were shut out for the second consecutive day, as the Marlins pounded starter Jordan Zimmermann right out of the gates en route to an 8-0 loss in the seventh and final meeting between the two clubs in Grapefruit League play. Marlins first baseman Michael Morse and right fielder Giancarlo Stanton both belted deep homers off Zimmermann, who allowed all eight runs, seven earned, on nine hits with four strikeouts and no walks. "It's spring training, that's a good...

SARASOTA, Fla. - Ubaldo Jimenez can put away his gray uniform pants. Jimenez will make his first home start of spring training Friday night against the Braves in Sarasota. Shelby Miller is listed as Atlanta's starter. The Orioles had Miguel Gonzalez penciled in as Friday's starter, with Jimenez pitching Saturday against the Braves in Orlando to wrap up the Grapefruit League schedule. However, today's game notes have Jimenez moved up a night and Saturday's starter listed as TBD. The Braves...

The Nationals announced new concessions, menu items, enhanced spaces for fans called Club 24, a Baseball Americana exhibit, a new main clubhouse team store, promotional items, historic home run commemoration, theme nights, giveaways and much more during a media tour of Nationals Park on Wednesday. Several of the newest enhancements are related to the 10th anniversary of baseball's return to D.C. "We've been planning for a really long time this celebration, really since the last pitch of last...

SARASOTA, Fla. - Reliever Brad Brach hasn't been told that he's made the Orioles' opening day roster. It's an assumption based on his performance last season and this spring, and the words of his manager following yesterday's outing. Brach tossed two scoreless innings against the Rays to lower his ERA to 1.74 in 10 1/3 innings. He's walked three batters and struck out 10. "Brach's going to be a key part of our bullpen," Buck Showalter said. "If he pitches well, it would mean a lot to...