The Orioles are going to miss Trey Mancini this season. Mancini, who underwent colon cancer surgery on March 12, the day that spring training ended, will miss 2020 while undergoing chemotherapy. Manager Brandon Hyde, who was wearing a “#F16HT” T-shirt during his video conference call with reporters on Sunday, knows his team...
Manager Brandon Hyde hasn’t decided on the Orioles’ starting staff when the 60-game season opens on July 24. He said that a five-man staff, a six-man staff, piggybacking starters and possibly using an opener are considerations. “We’ve put some thought into it, and we’ve had some discussions about it,” Hyde said on...
Three Washington Nationals — first baseman Ryan Zimmerman, pitcher Joe Ross and former Orioles catcher Welington Castillo — opted out of the 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic. So far, none of the Orioles have, including first baseman Chris Davis. “Unless I was going to be a high-risk guy, there was...
For Orioles manager Brandon Hyde, it was a strange feeling. After not seeing his team on the field since March 11, when the Orioles played the Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin, Florida, he had most of his team on the field Friday at Oriole Park. It was the Orioles’ first workout after...
After two days of reporting and Covid-19 testing, the Orioles’ summer training begins in earnest on Friday. Unlike spring training, the Orioles’ schedule for the abbreviated 60-game schedule isn’t known. Nor is the exhibition game schedule, presumed to be three games. The opener is most likely three weeks from now, on July...
In his three seasons with the Orioles, left-hander Richard Bleier is 8-1 with a 3.21 ERA. Last season, Bleier who was recovering from June 2018 lat surgery, had a strong September with a 2.93 ERA and two saves in 12 appearances with a 0.717 WHIP. He spoke after reporting to the Orioles’...
A 60-game season has some Oriole fans dreaming sweetly. They shouldn’t be. Yes, it’s certainly easier to exceed expectations in 60 games than it is in 162, but the Orioles are still painfully thin in starting pitching. And, as executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias pointed out on Monday, they’ll be playing...
Mike Elias is used to making evaluations over a 162-game season. This year, he needs to make decisions based on 60 games. “I hadn’t really thought about that until recently,” the Orioles’ executive vice president/general manager said in a Zoom call on Monday. “It’s going to be a very small sample for...
Orioles executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias knows that summer training and the truncated season that follows will be a challenge. “This is going to be unlike anything that any one of us has ever experienced,” Elias said in a Zoom conference call on Monday. The Orioles begin reporting to Camden Yards...
The Orioles’ designated 44 players for their 60-man summer training roster on Sunday, and the list contained a few surprises. Perhaps the biggest was the addition of right-handed pitcher César Valdez, who was signed to a minor league contract on January 10 but didn’t receive an invitation to major league spring training....