A fly ball hits Josh Lowe in the face, allowing Trey Mancini to score for an inside-the-park home run
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS HERE iTunes / Google Play There likely isn’t a player in the Orioles’ minor leagues who has raised his stock this season more than Ryan McKenna. After batting just .256 last year with Single-A Delmarva, McKenna is quickly climbing the prospect ranks in 2018. He hit .377 with...
Some of the most interesting developments within the next year or so for the Orioles concern players who are not on the current major league roster. One of the more intriguing names is Ryan Mountcastle, the 21-year-old corner infielder whom BaltimoreBaseball.com recently named the Orioles’ No. 1 prospect in our reshuffling of...
Two of the more intriguing players in the Orioles’ minor league system are outfielder Cedric Mullins and left-handed pitcher Keegan Akin. For the first part of this season, they were teammates with the Double-A Bowie Baysox before Mullins was promoted to Triple-A Norfolk last week thanks to a .316 average, .879 on-base-plus-slugging...
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS HERE iTunes / Google Play For my WOYK radio show in York, Pa., on Monday night, I wasn’t sure who to have on as a guest. There’s just so much swirling around the Orioles right now, how bad they are and what consequences may occur from that futility....
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS HERE iTunes / Google Play One of the things that has become obvious over the last few years with the Orioles is that the big league club is going to use its minor league system throughout the year. Whether it is utilizing the “Norfolk Shuttle” or jumping guys...
There was no one in the Orioles organization who had a more meteoric rise than outfielder Austin Hays in 2017. The 2016 third-round pick out of Jacksonville University started last year in High-A Frederick and ended it in Baltimore, playing 20 games and hitting .217 for the Orioles. That campaign pushed him...
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS HERE iTunes / Google Play We all knew it would be a tough opening assignment for Chris Tillman. After his disaster of a 2017 season, Tillman’s first outing in 2018 would come against the defending World Champion Houston Astros in their electric home opener Monday at Minute...
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS HERE iTunes / Google Play Orioles manager Buck Showalter answered the questions before Wednesday’s workout, but made a point to say that it wasn’t set that slugger Chris Davis would be his Opening Day leadoff hitter. “It’s a possibility, not for sure,” Showalter said. Later, when the questions...
It’s kind of hard to believe, but the Frederick Keys haven’t had a winning season since Manny Machado and Jonathan Schoop patrolled the infield at Harry Grove Stadium in 2011. This could be the year, though, that the Keys get back on the winning side of things, especially if Frederick’s rotation can...