Rich Dubroff
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October 8, 2021 at 7:00 am
Answers to your Orioles questions, Part 2
It’s time for our monthly mailbag, and we’ve gotten lots of excellent questions. This is the second part. Questions are edited for clarity, length and style. Question: The ownership of the Orioles negotiated an agreement on the ownership of MASN, and the Nationals agreed to it. I know the current dispute is...
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October 7, 2021 at 7:00 am
Answers to your Orioles questions, Part 1
It’s time for our monthly mailbag, and we’ve gotten lots of excellent questions. I’ll be answering some of them today and more on Friday. Questions are edited for clarity, length and style. Question: Could you explain how WAR is calculated? The concept seems arbitrary, but you say that baseball hot shots embrace...
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October 6, 2021 at 7:00 am
Elias continues to reshape Orioles’ organization; Finding room for players on 60-day injured list
Nearly three years into his term as Orioles executive vice president/general manager, Mike Elias continues to reshape the organization. Monday’s news that hitting coach Don Long was fired shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Long’s departure and the reassignment of his assistant, José Hernández, leave manager Brandon Hyde with just one coach,...
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October 5, 2021 at 7:00 am
The good and the bad of the Orioles’ 2021 season
There are a number of ways to describe the Orioles’ 2021 season, starting with bad. But it also offered signs of perhaps a brighter future. The Orioles lost 110 games. They became the first team in Major League Baseball history to have losing streaks of 19 and 14 games in the same...
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October 4, 2021 at 8:08 pm
Orioles fire hitting coach Don Long, Norfolk manager Gary Kendall
After a 110-loss season, the Orioles have started to make changes to their coaching staff. Don Long, who was their hitting coach for the past three seasons, has been fired. José Hernández, their assistant hitting coach for the past two seasons, is being reassigned. Gary Kendall, manager of Triple-A Norfolk since 2019,...
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1.8K24October 3, 2021 at 7:41 pmOrioles end disappointing season with lopsided loss to Blue Jays; Zimmermann pulled in 1st; Mancini optimistic
In a season they’d like to forget, the Orioles played another forgettable game in their 2021 finale. The Toronto Blue Jays pounded...
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Orioles’ Gutiérrez makes case for 2022; Mountcastle gets Hyde’s vote; Call for questions
Beginning Monday, the Orioles will start making changes to their 40-man roster. Kelvin Gutiérrez hopes he’s convinced the decision-makers that he deserves to be on it for 2022. Gutiérrez was considered simply another third baseman who could play in place of the injured Maikel Franco when he was acquired in early July...
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1.6K12October 2, 2021 at 6:38 pmMeans’ season ends with 10-1 loss to Blue Jays; Orioles get just 2 hits
Oriole pitcher John Means’ season ended with a disappointing start. Means allowed seven runs, six earned, equaling his career high, in the...
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1.5K19at 7:00 amOrioles’ late rally falls short in loss to Blue Jays
After winning two of three against the Boston Red Sox, damaging their wild-card hopes, the Orioles hoped to do the same against...
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October 1, 2021 at 5:29 pm
Oriole pitchers Kremer and Fry end season in minors; Mattson recalled for relief help
The Orioles expected Dean Kremer to be one of their starting pitchers this season. They expected Paul Fry to be one of the pillars in a strong bullpen. Neither has fulfilled those expectations. “It comes back to command,” manager Brandon Hyde said Friday before the start of the final series in Toronto....
