I hope everyone had a great Fourth of July holiday weekend. Or, at least, I hope yours was better than the Orioles’. Yikes. It hasn’t been pretty on the West Coast over the past week. And, really, it hasn’t been pretty on the road all season. The Orioles are just 16-22 away...
The Orioles have done a good job signing many of their 2016 draft picks well before the upcoming July 15 deadline. That’s appreciated by the media crew, which back in the dark ages had to cover potential signings for nearly a year. So much has changed surrounding the draft in my 16 years...
CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS ON ITUNES Rick Peterson has had a long and interesting career in baseball. After a stint in the Pirates’ minor league system as a player, he became a Single-A coach in 1979. Other minors coaching gigs eventually led him to the Oakland A’s, where he became major league...
Like I said last week, this is an exciting time of the minor league season. Teams are beginning to sign the players they selected earlier this month in Major League Baseball’s first-year-player draft. And they’re also rewarding prospects with promotions. The Orioles did both over the past week. Through Friday, when the...
CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS ON ITUNES Orioles catcher Caleb Joseph, who has appeared in more games for the Double-A Bowie Baysox, than any other person in that affiliate’s history, was in Bowie this week as part of an injury rehab assignment. No big leaguer likes to be sent back...
The weeks after Major League Baseball’s first-year-player draft are often filled with promotions, releases and other moves as a new group of signees joins the organization. On Friday, the Orioles announced their first draft-pick signing – former Illinois right-hander Cody Sedlock, the club’s first-round selection (27th overall). And Monday, the club added...
CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS ON ITUNES We won’t really know about the Orioles’ 2016 draft class for another three years, five years or even longer. But it’s always interesting to hear what the organization wanted to accomplish, what they targeted and why they grabbed some of the players they...
Later this week, I’ll have more than two dozen new players to factor into my updates. Short-season Single-A Aberdeen will begin its New York-Penn League schedule Friday at Hudson Valley. After two games against the Renegades and three more at Staten Island, the IronBirds will return to Ripken Stadium for their home...
Major League Baseball’s 2016 first-year-player draft is in the books. It’s the first one since BaltimoreBaseball.com came into existence. So we wanted to do something a little special – with the help of some serious internet research – and provide a snapshot of each one of the Orioles’ picks. Seriously. All 41...
One of the most important aspects of building a farm system is MLB’s annual first-year-player draft. It begins Thursday with the initial two rounds, and runs through Saturday. To get us ready for it, Adam Pohl talks with John Manuel, the co-editor of Baseball America, which is considered the premier source for amateur...