Happy New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day to all of our BaltimoreBaseball.com readers. It’s typically a slow week or two in the baseball world from around Christmastime to shortly after New Year’s Day, and we’ve taken advantage of that down period to spend a little time recharging the batteries. We’ll get...
Well, you’ve made it past the Christmas frenzy and are limping your way to New Year’s Day. Congratulations. I hope you still have some cash left in your wallets or purses. I’m a father of three. I don’t. Theoretically, baseball’s general managers still have some money to spend. Or at least the dozens...
This isn’t a baseball story, not really anyway. It’s a people story, a love story, a tragic story. And then, just when you want to scream from the rooftops about how life is so damn unfair, this becomes a story of heart-warming hope, with an all-time Orioles’ great providing some of that...
I’ve noticed a familiar refrain in the past few weeks as free agents are signing with teams. “When will the Orioles spend money? I’m so sick of everyone else opening their checkbooks while the Orioles never do anything in the offseason but dumpster dive.” I just smile and nod. Why let facts...
Although it won’t be official until he signs elsewhere, the reality is Matt Wieters’ career as an Oriole is over. He’ll almost certainly play for someone else in 2017, after being behind the plate for the Orioles since 2009. It seems like this news has been met with shrugs by a lot...
Catcher Welington Castillo passed his physical and was officially announced as a member of the Orioles on Friday in a teleconference with local media. Three things struck me about what was said by Castillo, manager Buck Showalter and executive vice president Dan Duquette. ** Castillo mentioned several times about wanting to join...
Every now and then, I realize the good fortune I’ve been afforded in covering Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette. There really isn’t anyone like him in this sport. Forget about marching to the beat of a different drummer, Duquette marches to music only he hears. Take this week for instance. On...
We know Dan Duquette, the Orioles’ executive vice president of baseball operations, often abandons convention in adding player inventory to the organization. We know he is a fan of foreign players, obscure leagues, Boston/New England connections and unorthodox pitchers. Well, he hit for the Duquette Superfecta with one move Thursday. The Orioles...
The Orioles have agreed with free-agent catcher Welington Castillo to a one-year, $6 million deal with a player option for 2018, pending medical review, according to an industry source. The decision likely ends the Orioles’ tenure of Matt Wieters, who has been the club’s primary starting catcher since 2009, but is a...
Whenever the Orioles make a move like they announced Tuesday – the re-signing of little-used right-hander Logan Ondrusek to a one-year, $650,000 deal with a $1.5 million option for 2018 – fans begin to grouse. All four of the Orioles’ American League East division rivals have purchased at least one veteran free...