Outfield prospect Heston Kjerstad is trending up, and he’s soaking in all of it. After all, he had to wait 27 months between his last game for the University of Arkansas and his first pro game, which he played June 10 for the Delmarva Shorebirds, the Orioles' Single-A affiliate. In between the two, a pandemic ended his 2020 Arkansas season early. T

Pitchers and catchers don’t have to officially report to the Nationals’ facility in West Palm Beach until Tuesday. But it’s not uncommon to see guys start arriving a week or so early. Josiah Gray is among those already down there getting ready for the start of camp. He joined “The Hot Stove Show” last week over Zoom from his back patio under cover

The volatile nature of a major league bullpen can push teams out of their comfort zone and into pure survival mode. Doesn’t matter how good it was in past seasons. Relievers are fickle in nature. They can carry you one summer and let you down the next. Be the pulse and break your heart. The Orioles departed their camp in 2022 hopeful, but far from

The Orioles are bringing back seven of their minor league managers in the same roles in 2023, but also replacing and relocating several coaches. Buck Britton will begin his second season as manager at Triple-A Norfolk after top prospects Adley Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson graduated to the majors last summer. Kyle Moore returns to Double-A Bowie,

The Orioles today announced the club’s minor league coaching staffs and player development assignments for the 2023 season. The coaching staffs of Triple-A Norfolk, Double-A Bowie, High-A Aberdeen, and Low-A Delmarva are listed below, along with the Florida Complex League and Dominican Summer League Orioles. The Orioles return the following manager

When it comes to how much a team may be improved from one year to the next we often look at what offseason additions they made. Did they get better there? We seldom look at improvements players already on the roster could make. During a media session with reporters last Friday at the Warehouse, O’s executive vice president and general manager Mike

Well, we're almost there now. Pitchers and catchers (and yours truly) report to West Palm Beach in five days, with the first workout of the spring to come the following afternoon. A long, mostly uneventful winter has nearly come to an end, and the prospect of actual baseball is tantalizingly close at last. We'll have plenty of spring training previ

Félix Bautista didn’t know whether the Orioles would put him on the 40-man roster to protect him from a 2021 Rule 5 draft that never happened. He didn’t know whether he’d break camp with the team. So many uncertainties that have been shed like unwanted pounds. Bautista became a dominant set-up man and closer as a 27-year-old rookie, and one of the

He is the pride of Valdosta, Ga., and now has his own Orioles-produced short film to prove that. He was the 21st overall player selected in the 2017 MLB Draft. He can throw a fastball 100 miles per hour and his name has been consistently on top 100 lists, most of them, since his draft day. But Dayton Layne Hall, known better as DL, still has some d

Fifty-five players appeared in a game for the Nationals last season, and six of them made their major league debuts in the process. At least one of those debuts, by Cade Cavalli, was both expected and promoted. The others, though, came as something of a surprise, whether it was Lucius Fox making the Opening Day roster, Jackson Tetreault and Evan Le