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There are probably a couple of ways fans can look at Orioles minor league pitcher Sean Gleason. Because he turned 26 in August, some will write him off as a prospect.
But he is also a guy that impressed a lot of people this past season and is someone that could push for time at Triple-A or even Baltimore at some point next season.
A right-hander, Gleason was drafted in round 20 in 2007 out of St. Mary's College in California. He was a starter from 2007-2009. In 2008 at Single-A Delmarva, he...
I'm venturing into the great outdoors in a few hours to play tennis and take advantage of this weather before it turns cold and gray and depressing beyond words.
I'm not a winter person.
(By the way, "The Great Outdoors" is a pretty good flick. It's worth a rental. And so is "Summer Rental." Both with John Candy. But I digress ...)
I'm going to keep it brief this morning, and I'm not going to mention Andy MacPhail or Buck Showalter. Well, I just did, but not anymore.
Adam Jones...
Scottsdale Scorpions left-hander and former University of San Diego standout Sammy Solis makes his 2011 Arizona Fall League debut today against Salt River Rafters.
The Scorpions (0-1) fell to Surprise 10-1 in the season opener Wednesday. Nationals prospect Zach Walters went 1-for-3, but Bryce Harper (0-for-3, one strikeout) and Derek Norris (0-for-3) did not register a hit in the first game. Reliever Pat Lehman faced one batter and recorded an out.
Solis is in his second season in the AFL,...
Terry Francona, in an interview earlier today on a Boston radio station, was asked whether he wanted to manage in 2012.
"I don't know," he replied. "I don't want to try to manage in the wrong situation."
For everyone asking me whether Francona could wind up in the Orioles' dugout if Buck Showalter relinquished his duties as manager, I ask you whether this job would qualify as "the wrong situation" for him.
It's probably a moot point.
I'm not promising or placing odds on anything,...
Most baseball-crazy folks collect things that have some personal meaning, some hoard everything they can get their hands on with a team logo on it and still others focus their devotion to a specific player. And then there are the folks who see only the future in their motive for collecting, adding an item to their array of baseball goodies while a player is still riding backwoods buses and sleeping in a host family's home in the minor leagues in the hopes that a major league call-up will make...
Right-handed pitcher Rafael Martin had one of the best seasons for a reliever in the Nationals' chain in 2011. It all clicked for the 27-year-old, who mesmerized hitters in the Double-A Eastern League.
After starting the season at Single-A Potomac, Martin rolled at Harrisburg, earning a spot on the Scottsdale Scorpions of the Arizona Fall League.
The 6-foot-2,195-lb., San Fernando, Calif., native went 5-1 with a career-best 1.65 ERA in 38 games, striking out 54 batters and allowing just 11...
Right-hander Patrick Lehman, a George Washington University product, advanced very well in 2011 from Single-A Potomac to Double-A Harrisburg and now looks to cap off the season with a good run in the Arizona Fall League.
Lehman had such a quality campaign that he was selected to the Scottsdale Scorpions roster as one of the representatives from the Nationals organization.
Lehman went a combined 3-2 with a 3.08 ERA and 45 strikeouts in 42 games in 2011. He had 34 strikeouts and only four free...
As Orioles fans look for a nugget of hope (pun intended) that their team will actually be better next year, consider this: Each stop where Buck Showalter managed before, his clubs made a dramatic improvement between his first and second seasons.
While Buck managed for two months last year, the 2012 season will be his second full season as Orioles' manager - if he continues in that role, of course.
Showalter's 1992 Yankees team went 76-86 and then 88-74 a year later. His 1998 Arizona club,...
Double-A Bowie's Xavier Avery, playing left field and batting ninth yesterday for the Mesa Solar Sox in the Arizona Fall League, went 0-for-3 with a walk, run scored and two strikeouts in a 12-8 loss to Phoenix. He was the only Orioles farmhand to appear in the game.
I won't make any promises, but we could find out today whether Andy MacPhail ...
OK, I'll stop.
No lame incremental updates that don't advance the story an inch. Oh sure, it's tempting, but I won't subject you to more of...