Rich Dubroff
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October 28, 2020 at 7:00 am
Orioles’ starting pitching improved in 2020
The Orioles’ starting pitching was not only better in 2020 than it was in 2019, its depth also improved. In 2019, the Orioles ended the season with Dylan Bundy, Alex Cobb and John Means as starters, and with Asher Wojciechowski expected to return to the rotation. The Orioles used 18 different starters...
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October 26, 2020 at 7:00 am
Orioles will begin busy winter after World Series
The Orioles can begin making concrete plans for the 2021 season after the World Series ends either Tuesday or Wednesday night. Of course, we don’t know what the 2021 season will be like—if spring training will begin in mid-February or if the season will start on April 1 as scheduled. There are...
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October 23, 2020 at 7:00 am
Award season is here, and the Orioles’ Santander is a Gold Glove finalist
It’s been a year of recognition for Orioles’ rightfielder Anthony Santander. Even though he missed the final 23 games of the 2020 season because of an oblique injury, Santander was voted Most Valuable Oriole. On Thursday, he was named one of three finalists for the Rawlings Gold Glove. Santander’s American League right...
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October 21, 2020 at 7:00 am
Cobb can help the Orioles’ young starters in 2021
In 2018, Alex Cobb received the most expensive contract given to a free agent pitcher in team history. Cobb’s four-year, $57 million deal hasn’t worked out well for the Orioles. Even if Cobb had pitched well in his first season, it wouldn’t have made much difference for the Orioles, who were on...
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October 19, 2020 at 7:00 am
Orioles taking a look at Bannon at second base; Answers to Friday’s quiz
Rylan Bannon is one of the oldest players in the Orioles’ Instructional League in Sarasota, Florida this month. He’s also one of a handful who were also at the Bowie alternate training site. Bannon, a 24-year-old infielder who was obtained from the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Manny Machado trade in July...
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October 16, 2020 at 7:00 am
The great Orioles offseason quiz
To mark Jim Palmer’s 75th birthday this week, the great Orioles teams of the past and the wacky 2020 season, and more, it’s time for the first offseason edition of the Great Orioles Quiz. The answers will be revealed on Monday. Jim Palmer hit two home runs in his career. The first...
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October 15, 2020 at 7:00 am
Who are the candidates to close for the Orioles in 2021?
When the Orioles gathered for spring training in Sarasota, Florida last February, manager Brandon Hyde was undecided on a closer. Mychal Givens had been ineffective as a closer in 2019 and performed much better in a set-up role. Hyde hoped that Hunter Harvey could become the Orioles’ closer, but when it finally...
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October 14, 2020 at 7:00 am
Orioles face hard decisions on key players
The Orioles have decisions to make on a number of players, and it’s difficult because they had fewer games to watch them. That was known entering the 60-game season. Now that the season has ended, they’ll have to make some educated guesses. It’s one thing to extrapolate the 25-35 record, which works...
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3.6K8October 13, 2020 at 7:00 amMorgan’s death another reminder of a painful 2020
In a year that’s been so unspeakably awful, another Hall of Famer has been taken from us. We were just getting over...
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October 12, 2020 at 7:00 am
Orioles can look to Rays for how winners are constructed
Oriole fans watching the American League Championship Series might not have a strong choice in deciding who to root for. In the National League Championship Series, former Orioles Nick Markakis and Darren O’Day are playing for the Atlanta Braves. Catonsville’s Adam Kolarek pitches for the Los Angeles Dodgers. There’s not a former...