Ryan Flaherty played six seasons with the Orioles as a utility infielder after being selected in the Rule 5 draft from the Chicago Cubs in December 2011. After leaving the Orioles after the 2017 season, Flaherty played with the Atlanta Braves in 2018. He spent most of 2019 with Triple-A Columbus, and...
SAN DIEGO—Orioles Executive Vice President/General Manager Mike Elias has a lengthy shopping list for the Winter Meetings that run through Thursday. After the Orioles traded infielder Jonathan Villar and starting pitcher Dylan Bundy for five pitching prospects last week, Elias said that the Orioles will look for pitching, middle infielders, a catcher...
The Orioles have 18 pitchers on their 40-man roster. Only four are left-handers. All four pitchers received from the Los Angeles Angels in exchange for Dylan Bundy Wednesday are right-handed. Ordinarily, it might be a given that the Orioles need to add to their left-handed relievers — Richard Bleier, Paul Fry and...
Dylan Bundy, who was traded Wednesday to the Los Angeles Angels for four right-handed pitching prospects, never turned out to be the star pitcher the Orioles envisioned when he was the fourth overall draft pick in 2011. At the time, the Orioles were accumulating a boatload of young talent. They had drafted...
For the second time in three days, Orioles general manager Mike Elias made a deal involving one of the Orioles’ front-line players. After trading infielder Jonathan Villar to the Miami Marlins for 23-year-old left-handed pitcher Easton Lucas on Monday, the Orioles traded starting pitcher Dylan Bundy — the fourth overall pick in...
Despite the warnings, many Oriole fans expressed frustration about the Jonathan Villar trade. He played in all 162 games in 2019, hit for average (.274), hit for power (24 home runs) and stole 40 bases while splitting time between shortstop and second base. He was guilty of lapses on occasion, but he...
About three or four hours ahead of Monday’s 8 p.m. deadline for offering 2020 contracts, the Orioles began getting some interest in Jonathan Villar. With time running out, they traded Villar to the Miami Marlins. Executive Vice President/General Manager Mike Elias is happy about his team’s acquisition of 23-year-old left-hander Easton Lucas...
Shortly before they would have elected to not offer him a contract, the Orioles traded infielder Jonathan Villar to the Miami Marlins for left-handed pitcher Easton Lucas on Monday night. The Orioles had tried to trade Villar earlier and, failing to find a partner, placed him on outright waivers late last week....
By 8 o’clock tonight, the Orioles will officially end Jonathan Villar’s time with the team. Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, the Orioles placed Villar on outright waivers, knowing that another team wasn’t going to claim him. No team had expressed interest in trading for him. Surely the Orioles would have jumped at...
BALTIMORE—On a cold, wet Sunday morning, about 1,200 fans gathered a few blocks from M&T Bank Stadium to salute Trey Mancini’s charity works on behalf of 13-year-old cancer patient Mo Gaba at a tailgate before the Ravens game with the San Francisco 49ers. Mancini, who acknowledged being cold despite attending many foul-weather...