As they watched the final inning of the World Series late Saturday night, Mike Rizzo and Davey Martinez and anyone else with a connection to the Nationals surely were focused on Dusty Baker, thrilled to see their friend and former colleague finally win a championship as a manager, some 41 years after he won his lone title as a player. Like so many

Today's blog entry has spent a few weeks in my laptop. This was written in early September and no, I don't work that far in advance. Hardly. But that was when the Orioles asked me to write an article that would appear in the Major League Baseball playoffs program if they made the postseason. They didn't but hey, someone should get to read this

Finalists for the four Baseball Writers’ Association of America awards will be announced tonight beginning at 6 p.m. on MLB Network. Plan your meals around it. The top three finishers will be revealed in alphabetical order, so don’t panic if it takes a while for Adley Rutschman’s name to appear among American League rookies. Seattle’s Julio Rodrigu

The Nationals are bringing back Sean Doolittle in 2023, re-signing the popular, rehabbing reliever only hours after he officially became a free agent. Doolittle, who appeared in only five games last season before suffering a major elbow injury, agreed to terms on a minor league contract that includes an invitation to big league camp next spring. He

From 1954 to 1991, it was home for the Orioles. It was also home to the Baltimore Colts, the Canadian Football League’s Baltimore Stallions and for their first two seasons, the Baltimore Ravens. In 1993, it was even home for a season to the Bowie Baysox before Prince George’s Stadium was built. For some of us of a certain age, it just felt like ...

PLAYER REVIEW: CORY ABBOTT Age on opening day 2023: 27 How acquired: Claimed off waivers from Giants, May 2022 MLB service time: 83 days 2022 salary: $700,000 Contract status: Under team control, arbitration-eligible in 2026, free agent in 2029 2022 stats: 0-5, 5.25 ERA, 16 G, 9 GS, 0 CG, 48 IP, 44 H, 30 R, 28 ER, 12 HR, 25 BB, 45 SO, 5 HBP, 1.438

Armchair general managers remained on call throughout the World Series. Can't put away the cell phone or shut the laptop. There's lots of work to do. Never mind that your salary isn't enough to tip the DoorDash driver. You're in it for the love of the game. I already posed three questions: whether you’d re-sign first baseman Jesús Aguilar, whether

We are getting into the weeds a bit here today, digging into some pitching numbers that might be interesting to look at and note. Maybe they actually tell us something about Orioles pitching as well. First, in the simplest terms, O’s pitchers, as a staff, threw fewer fastballs and changeups in 2022 compared to 2021. They threw more sliders and cutt

PLAYER REVIEW: ANDRES MACHADO Age on opening day 2023: 29 How acquired: Signed as minor league free agent, February 2021 MLB service time: 1 year, 86 days 2022 salary: $708,200 Contract status: Under team control, arbitration-eligible in 2025, free agent in 2028 2022 stats: 2-0, 3.34 ERA, 51 G, 0 SV, 59 1/3 IP, 55 H, 32 R, 22 ER, 7 HR, 26 BB, 46 SO

Helping a friend move yesterday wasn’t part of Anthony Servideo’s offseason workout program, but it offered further evidence of his improved health. Some heavy lifting that couldn’t be taken lightly after everything he’s gone through. The Orioles chose Servideo in the third round of the truncated 2020 draft out of the University of Mississippi, int