BOSTON—Even though the Orioles’ Opening Day game against the Boston Red Sox has been postponed until Friday, they did have to set their 26-man roster. Right-handed pitcher Shawn Armstrong begins the season on the paternity list, allowing the team to carry Cole Sulser and Dillon Tate among its 14 pitchers. Travis Lakins...
BOSTON—The Orioles’ Opening Day game against the Boston Red Sox was postponed because of rain. Thursday’s opener, which was scheduled for 2:10 p.m. at Fenway Park, will be played on Friday. The announcement came shortly after 9 a.m., more than five hours before game time. Early Thursday morning, there was some rain...
BOSTON– Baseball is back, and so is Trey Mancini. The Orioles’ world feels closer to normal. Opening Day is here. They won’t be running down the Orange Carpet. That will wait a week, and six games into a season somehow doesn’t feel like a true opener. Instead of playing 60 games in...
J.J. Hardy is a lifelong Arizonan who fell in love with Baltimore. Hardy, who became a fan favorite with his outstanding play at shortstop for seven seasons with the Orioles, learned this week that he had been elected to the team’s Hall of Fame. “Ever since I came to Baltimore in 2011,...
When the Orioles began their rebuild in 2018, one of the primary aims was to increase their presence in the Dominican Republic....
Orioles manager Brandon Hyde made the obvious official on Friday when he named John Means the Opening Day starter. Hyde had Means lined up to start the April 1st game against the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park since the start of the Grapefruit League season. The left-hander was supposed to start...
The Orioles have signed third baseman Maikel Franco, whose name is pronounced Michael Fraun-CO, to a one-year contract. Franco will earn $800,000 this season and can earn $200,000 in incentives and would get a bonus if he’s traded, according to MLB Network’s Jon Heyman. To make room for Franco on the 40-man...
The news that Nick Markakis quietly confirmed his retirement shouldn’t be a surprise. Markakis, who told The Athletic that he was ending his outstanding career, was the most underappreciated of the last decade’s Orioles, except by those who played with him. Markakis played his first nine years with the Orioles and then...
The Orioles will allow about 11,000 fans, 25 percent capacity, at games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards for the 2021 season, the club announced on Friday. The announcement comes on the one-year anniversary of the cancellation of spring training. In a statement, the team said, “As the public health situation improves,...
Heston Kjerstad, who hasn’t been in uniform because of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle), won’t attend spring training and will report to the Orioles’ alternate site in Bowie next month. Kjerstad, 22, was the second overall selection in last June’s draft Executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias, who revealed Kjerstad’s condition...