My latest guest post over at MASN went live today and it’s a fun little follow-up to last week’s post about the best players of the Losing Era. Titled Top Six Players Who Define the Losing Era, it’s a look at the guys I’ve identified as emblematic of the Orioles‘ problems over the past 14 [...]

Just a quick check-in on the Orioles towards the end of their big early-season test, otherwise known as The Gaunlet. There are three games left of this Yankees-Sox-Rangers-Rays-Yankees stretch during which the O’s have gone 8-4 and sit two games ahead of the Rays in 1st place. That means regardless of what happens in the [...]

After a day job-induced week off from the guest blog posts over at MASN I returned this week with something kind of fun: a list of the best Orioles of this, the Losing Era. I got to thinking, after the recent unveiling of the Frank Robinson statue at Camden Yards, about great Orioles of the [...]

They’ll be talking about this one for a long time. 17 innings. Over 500 total pitches thrown. Six-plus hours of baseball. A big lead, a blown lead, a heap of home runs (including a grand slam). Position players in to pitch for both teams. And when it was all said and done, 1B/DH Chris Davis [...]

Let’s pretend it’s 2009. Orioles GM Andy MacPhail just made a late roster move in Spring Training, trading away former top pitching prospect Hayden Penn to the Marlins for shortstop Robert Andino. Penn was out of options, Andino was stuck behind Hanley Ramirez, and it made sense to shore up the Orioles’ middle infield depth, [...]

Tonight, the Orioles go for another series win against an AL East opponent. A win against the Yankees in New York tonight would seal their third series win in four attempts against the AL East. What is this, 1996? Well, not yet. O’s fans are still in the process of awkwardly figuring out how best [...]

As will happen to every team in the AL East at least a few times per season, the Orioles are about to run a gauntlet. Tonight’s close loss at the Yankees kicks off a tough May schedule that includes series at the Red Sox and Nationals along with home series against the Rangers, Rays, and [...]

New post up over at MASN today (it happens every Wednesday) wherein I try to peel back a layer of “why?” in terms of Camden Yards attendance. And yet, even on a chilly Tuesday night in April against the Blue Jays, there is activity in the Yard. Not a lot and not as much as [...]