The Orioles have hired Eve Rosenbaum to the newly created position of director of baseball development. The news was reported by The Athletic and confirmed by an industry source. Rosenbaum comes from the Houston Astros, where she worked with Executive Vice President/General Manager Mike Elias. The Bethesda native, who attended Walt Whitman...
In watching this most fascinating postseason, it’s again emphasized how important it is to have a top-shelf starting pitcher—or three—on your team. There aren’t many premier starters, and the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals seem to have most of them. Houston has Gerrit Cole, set to start today’s Game 3 at Yankee...
After the Orioles closed out the first half of the season Sunday afternoon, players prepared to scatter to the winds, going their separate ways for the time being. It could be a good practice run for what’s about to happen over the next two weeks. The Orioles’ four-day reprieve for the All-Star...
Kevin Gausman, who was one strikeout away from matching a career-high (10) in Saturday’s 8-5 loss to the New York Yankees, exited the game with one out in the sixth. And what transpired prior to his exit shouldn’t be a surprise considering how Baltimore’s 2018 season is going. In the top half,...
The Orioles are mourning the loss of longtime scout Bruce Kison. Kison, 68, passed away Friday night after battling a brief illness. The former Major Leaguer served as Baltimore’s pitching coach in 1999 and then as a scout until his retirement in December 2017. He played 15 MLB seasons — spending time...
The 2018 season certainly isn’t playing out the way the Orioles had hoped. But Manny Machado is holding up his end of the bargain. The Orioles shortstop, in his contract year, is off to a red-hot start at the plate. On Sunday, he was a one-man wrecking crew for the otherwise flailing...
Chris Tillman made his fourth start of the 2018 season Saturday night and, like, the previous three, command issues ultimately hurt him. Tillman threw a season-high six innings in the Orioles’ 4-0 loss to the Cleveland Indians. He walked his season-low (one) and struck out his season high (five) while lowering his...