• Wall ball: The homers are becoming more plentiful at Camden Yards

    Park. And our opinion of the wall may be very different than it was in April. Good night on the farm: If you wondered if adding three of the Orioles' top15 prospects could help the Triple-A Norfolk Tides, it did. Last night, Gunnar Henderson and Jordan Westburg made strong Triple-A debuts. The Tides also welcomed back Terrin Vavra, the O's No. 14 prospect per MLBPipeline.com, while Henderson and...

  • More leftovers for breakfast

    to four yesterday with reliever Beau Sulser joining reliever Marcos Diplán, infielder Rylan Bannon and catcher Cody Roberts. Sulser was told Saturday night to join the Orioles. The Triple-A Norfolk Tides were in Lehigh Valley, and Sulser caught a flight out of Allentown. He arrived in Chicago yesterday morning. This is Sulser’s second taxi squad adventure. He also joined the team in Kansas City....

  • O's game blog: Dean Kremer faces Houston in series Game 2

    and a solo shot to Austin Hays. Urquidy's last two starts were rough, as he allowed 12earned runs and 17 hits over 11 innings against the Angels and Athletics. Tides tonight: The Triple-A Norfolk Tides have produced a strong finish to their season. They are 72-72 with six games left. Durham beat Norfolk last night 7-6, but the Tides are still 14-6 this month and have won 18 of their past 25...

  • O's game blog: The season opener against Boston (plus AAA roster)

    the first time. They are Kyle Bradish, Logan Gillaspie, Gunnar Henderson, Adley Rutschman, Kyle Stowers and Terrin Vavra. Tides roster: Here is the break-camp roster for the Orioles’ Triple-A Norfolk Tides team. The Tides begin their 53rd season in the International League at 6:35 p.m. Friday night when they play at Durham. After three games there this weekend, Norfolk opens its home season at...

  • Wells' WHIP is good, Garrett gets back to majors, stealing Mateo stat

    for us. Gives us a chance almost every time out and puts up great numbers, so I’d love to see him have a chance to go.” * Reed Garrett is no different than any other player with the Triple-A Norfolk Tides. He watches the Orioles on television when he’s able to, or he checks the box scores. And he knew from watching Tuesday’s game with his wife in their apartment that the Orioles used four...

  • O's game blog: Jordan Westburg's MLB debut, plus Holliday and Kjerstad to the Futures Game

    will send two players to the All-Star Futures Game in Seattle. They are infielder Jackson Holliday of the High-A Aberdeen IronBirds and outfielder/first baseman Heston Kjerstad of the Triple-A Norfolk Tides. The rosters were announced tonight for the 24th such contest set for Saturday, July 8, at 7 p.m. ET at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park. Holliday began this year with Low Single-A Delmarva and moved...

  • O's game blog: Looking to extend a win streak against Miami

    over his past six starts he is 3-0 with a 2.38 ERA. In 34 innings, he has walked just three and fanned 41, allowing a .210 batting average and .609 OPS. A few notes from Norfolk: The Triple-A Norfolk Tides, who are 56-30 overall and 8-4 in the second-half, host Scranton tonight with right-hander Garrett Stallings (1-1, 3.12 ERA) on the mound. Chayce McDermott is also expected to pitch for...

  • Looking back at the late-season offense and ahead to the Texas series

    victory since the 2011 AL Championship Series versus Detroit. Tides honored: Minor League baseball named the Triple-A end of season All-Star teams yesterday and outfielder Colton Cowser of the Norfolk Tides made the IL team. In 87 games this season he hit .300/.417/.520/.937 with 17 homers and 62 RBIs. Buck Britton was named the International League Manager of the Year after guiding Norfolk to...

  • Because You Asked - Sorority Rising

    a sinus infection, would it be a Mayo-Nasal? OK, I’m still workshopping it. Jordan Westburg is on the 10-day injury list as of May 2. Any more updates on him? Westburg is working out with the Norfolk Tides and could be in their lineup as early as tonight. He’s close. If Mike Elias was to dip into the trade market for a pitcher, would it be more expensive now or closer to the trade deadline? More...

  • Orioles option Zac Lowther

    DUNEDIN, Fla. - Zac Lowther isn’t breaking camp with the Orioles. One of the pitching questions has been resolved. The Orioles announced this morning that Lowther was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk, removing him as a candidate to start or work in a tandem role coming out of the bullpen. Lowther walked four Pirates batters yesterday in 2 1/3 innings and was tagged with four runs. He made two...

  • How do Orioles round out rotation after 5-4 loss?

    The rotation has taken its first full turn of the 2022 season, and the Orioles don’t really know more than what they understood when it began. John Means and Jordan Lyles are the two veterans at the top. Former Rule 5 pick Tyler Wells is getting his starter’s groove back but working as the front end of a tandem. Left-hander Bruce Zimmermann – he’s local, you know – is fourth in line. The fifth...

  • Late bloomer on mound for O's at end of the games in St. Louis

    Can we call a pitcher who was released by one organization and spent all of his first six seasons - when he wasn’t hurt - in short-season ball but is now in the majors a late bloomer? Can we call that a run-on sentence? Probably, but it’s hard to be concise at times about the story of right-hander Félix Bautista, a hard-throwing pitcher from the Dominican Republic who made the Orioles roster...

  • Kremer's return to mound leads to more questions

    The Orioles didn’t wait long this season to create some roster and injury intrigue, to build speculation and curiosity within the media until further details became available. Remember the third game at Tropicana Field? Come on, it wasn’t that long ago. The club hadn’t confirmed its fifth starter, who became Spenser Watkins. Dean Kremer began to warm in the visiting bullpen, eliminating him...

  • Because You Asked - Baby Geniuses 2

    The Orioles spent their off day in Boston. I can think of much worse places to do it. For example, the bottom of my mailbag. It’s cramped, the airflow is restricted, and I can’t imagine that the odor is pleasing. I empty it. I don’t clean it. You ask a lot of questions and I respond to as many as I can. Many are set on repeat. I try to stay consistent in my answers, but there are limits, which...

  • Notes on Orioles rotation, Kremer and more

    BOSTON – The Orioles are waiting until Tuesday morning to announce their starter for the series opener against the Mariners at Camden Yards. Kyle Bradish starts Wednesday, followed by Jordan Lyles on Thursday in his 300th career game. A pitcher could come up from Triple-A Norfolk or manager Brandon Hyde goes with another bullpen game to piece together nine innings. The Tides are off tonight and...

  • More Mike Elias on Rodriguez, DL Hall and other topics

    When O’s executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias updated reporters Sunday about baseball’s top pitching prospect, Grayson Rodriguez, he noted that the right-hander is not doing anything with his mechanics that made him more likely to develop the lat issue that has now sidelined him. But Elias did note one thing Rodriguez does that might make him more likely to have such an...

  • O's promote Henderson and Westburg to Triple-A, plus new rosters

    They are moving on up. The Orioles today promoted infielders Gunnar Henderson and Jordan Westburg from Double-A Bowie to Triple-A Norfolk. Both will now get tested at the minor leagues’ highest level, one step below the big leagues in Baltimore. They are expected to be with the Tides (26-28) for the opener of their series Tuesday night at Nashville. Henderson, 20, is having a huge year and is...

  • Henderson and Westburg bumps bring needed boosts

    Promotions earned yesterday also felt like a bone tossed. The huge disappointment over top pitching prospect Grayson Rodriguez perhaps missing the rest of the 2022 season with a Grade 2 strain of his right lat muscle was followed a day later by the rush that comes from infield prospects Gunnar Henderson and Jordan Westburg advancing to Triple-A Norfolk. Out with the bad report, in with the...

  • More on Stowers and Garcia joining Orioles

    TORONTO - The Orioles knew for a while that outfielder Anthony Santander and reliever Keegan Akin would leave the active roster prior to the team’s arrival in Toronto. To be decided was which outfielder might replace Santander in the lineup. Kyle Stowers became the third top-10 prospect in the system to get the call, joining catcher Adley Rutschman and pitcher Kyle Bradish. They’ll be on the...

  • Orioles recall Bannon, starting Lyles tonight

    The Orioles have recalled infielder Rylan Bannon from Triple-A Norfolk to expand their bench to four players for tonight’s series opener against the Nationals at Camden Yards. Bannon made his major league debut while the Orioles were in St. Louis and went 2-for-14 in four games before they optioned him. He was batting .232/.358/.416 in 221 plate appearances with the Tides and homered in three...


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