Today is a day to find the best in a world that can be uncooperative throughout the search.   To be thankful for more time in it. Sure beats the alternative. That actually should be done every morning when our feet hit the floor, but the fourth Thursday in November has become the official date. The pressure builds if coaxed into expressing it at th

When it comes to the young talent in a big league club’s organization – the prospects – there are several ways they can help you. The most obvious one would be to make the team and help you win games. That is the first goal. But they can also help bring talent to a team via trades. Sometimes when we take a look at how a winning or championship team

We noted the other day how the Nationals intend to pursue at least one starting pitcher this winter, trying to add some much-needed depth to what was baseball’s worst rotation this season. If that’s priority No. 1 over the next few months, priority No. 2 is the addition of a middle-of-the-order hitter. Er, make that two middle-of-the-order hitters.

An area of improvement that can’t be predicted or counted upon in 2023 is the Orioles’ success in close games. A better bullpen deserves much of the credit. Eighty-three were decided by two runs or fewer, the fifth-most in the American League and ninth-most in the majors. Manager Brandon Hyde would playfully remind everyone that there were no rules

Two weeks from today the Orioles could wind up with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft. But the odds of that are real, real low. On Dec. 6 at the Winter Meetings baseball will hold the first-ever draft lottery. It will take place that Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m. ET and be televised by MLB Network. The 18 teams that did not make the playoff

The Nationals have existed for 18 seasons now, but to date there’s only one Hall of Famer who played for them: Ivan Rodriguez. And though 13 former Nats players have appeared on the Hall of Fame ballot, the vast majority of them were never really thought of as Nationals: Rick Ankiel, Brad Lidge, Matt Stairs, Aaron Boone, Paul Lo Duca, Alfonso Soria

The Orioles are keeping two openings on their 40-man roster as they get closer to the Thanksgiving holiday shutdown. This isn’t a mandated quiet period. It just typically works out that way. Thanksgiving 2005 was an insane exception. The Marlins traded Carlos Delgado to the Mets and Mike Lowell, Josh Beckett and Guillermo Mota to the Red Sox for Ha

Once he finally got on the field this past season in June, O’s outfield prospect Heston Kjerstad was tearing it up at Single-A Delmarva, batting .463 in 22 games. He didn’t produce similar numbers when he moved up to High-A Aberdeen – yes, that would have been hard to do – but had another great run in the Arizona Fall League. Kjerstad won the Joe B

Though there’s been a bit of movement on the free agent market elsewhere, we’re still in the preliminary stages of the offseason around here. The Nationals have yet to add anybody to the fold, focusing instead on which players to add to their 40-man roster and which players to remove from the equation. But now that they’ve completed those tasks, it

An immediate takeaway from Friday night’s announcement that the Orioles tendered contracts to their six arbitration-eligible players: No one in the group was non-tendered, and there were some questions surrounding pitcher Austin Voth based on projected salary and uncertain role. MLBTradeRumors.com has Voth’s contract rising from $875,000 to $2 mill