PROSPECT REVIEW: MITCHELL PARKER Age on opening day 2024: 24 How acquired: Drafted in fifth round in 2020 from San Jacinto College (Houston) Ranking: No. 25 per MLB Pipeline, No. 30 per Baseball America MLB ETA: 2024* Projected by MLB Pipeline Signing bonus: $100,000 2023 levels: Double-A Harrisburg and Triple-A Rochester 2023 stats: 9-7, 4.72 ERA,

Today in a unique edition and a variation on the usual "A Few Questions for O's Fans," I want to discuss not so much the present day Orioles but the Orioles of the past. For some of you, feel free to go back to the beginning of the Baltimore Orioles and their first year of 1954 if you choose. Let's start there. For those that have that much history

The Winter Meetings are a week away, but I can’t fly into Nashville until I’ve trudged through a few more awards nights. Roll up the pant legs and wear old shoes. Major League Baseball’s Comeback Player of the Year will be announced Tuesday evening on MLB Network. White Sox closer Liam Hendriks was honored in the American League in the Players Choi

PROSPECT REVIEW: ANDRY LARA Age on opening day 2024: 21 How acquired: Signed as international free agent, July 2019 Ranking: No. 23 per MLB Pipeline, No. 18 per Baseball America MLB ETA: 2025* Projected by MLB Pipeline Signing bonus: $1.25 million 2023 levels: High-A Wilmington 2023 stats: 6-8, 4.58 ERA, 23 G, 23 GS, 98 ⅓ IP, 90 H, 58 R, 50 ER, 11

We learned a few days ago that right-hander Kyle Gibson would not be back with the Orioles for the 2024 season. He signed a one-year free agent deal with the St. Louis Cardinals for $12 million and the team holds a club option for the 2025 season. For Gibson, this represents a homecoming of sorts. He lives near St. Louis and went to college at the

Two days past Thanksgiving is too early to begin worrying whether the leftovers are edible. To check for discoloring, change in texture, hints that a trip to the emergency room is in your future. It isn’t too late to keep looking back on the 2023 Orioles season. Among the surprises and oddities, I’ve already mentioned how Austin Voth wasn’t impactf

The 2023 holiday season officially kicked off yesterday with Thanksgiving, but the Nationals got a head start to the season of giving earlier this week. This week Washington Nationals Philanthropies hosted Turkeypalooza, its now sixth annual food distribution event across the D.C. area. “Turkeypalooza is an annual event that Washington Nationals Ph

A few weeks back, I wrote about three players that surprised us in a good way with their play during the 2023 season. It was easy to note Ryan O'Hearn and Yennier Cano, both were huge surprises and so big for the 2023 Birds. I added Kyle Bradish and not that we didn't think he could be a good pitcher. But maybe not that good. But he was and he woun

Winning the American League East and reaching the Division Series, where they were swept by the Rangers, earned the Orioles a playoff share of $43,942. A decent haul but a pittance compared to the $506,263 earned by the Rangers for winning the World Series. The Diamondbacks won the National League pennant and were rewarded with $313,634. The genera

Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers and fans of this blog today and I hope everyone has a great time with family and friends. Hope everything on your plate is hot and delicious. But the topic here is always baseball and the Orioles and O’s fans have a lot to be thankful for this year. How about a playoff team, 101 wins and an AL East championship.