No one knows when the baseball season will begin. Major League Baseball and the Players Association have painstakingly discussed potential scenarios for the 2020 season that has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, MLB announced it...
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... d-June, just after the major league draft, and run until Labor Day. Now, the Orioles’ top affiliates — Norfolk, Bowie, Frederick and Delmarva — could join Aberde ...
One of the nicest surprises of the Orioles’ truncated spring training was the hitting of Chris Davis. When the season begins, Davis will begin the fifth year of a seven-year $161 million contract, and after hitting a combined .172 in 2018 and 2019,...
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... s describes his home gym as modest, and is working during the layoff. As the Orioles’ player representative, he checks in with his teammates and says they’re wor ...
On March 12, the day that baseball stopped, Chris Davis was driving down Interstate 75, heading from Sarasota to Fort Myers for a game the Orioles were set to play against the Minnesota Twins that evening. Davis was summoned back to the Ed Smith...
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... iving down Interstate 75, heading from Sarasota to Fort Myers for a game the Orioles were set to play against the Minnesota Twins that evening. Davis was summone ...
In these troubled times, we know who essential workers are. Doctors, nurses and other key hospital personnel. Police officers and firefighters. They’re also workers in food stores, pharmacies, gas stations, auto repair shops and hardware stores....
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... cond and four at third and played two innings at shortstop. Last season, the Orioles needed 13 pitchers for much of the season, leaving only 12 position players. ...
People often ask me what is the most unforgettable game I’ve ever seen. I have a few contenders, but there’s something they never ask me that I have an easy answer for. The 2012 Orioles were my favorite team. In September 2011, ComcastSportsNet, now...
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... ailed badly because it made a mockery of the game. In his final two years as Orioles manager, Showalter softened his stance, but on an early Sunday evening in Ma ...
As the coronavirus pandemic puts everything on hold, Major League Baseball and the Players Association continue to discuss the format of a possible season. We’ll keep you updated as things change, but let’s surmise that we will have some sort of a...
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... Orioles have 50 players on their spring training roster, and the number of players t ...
It’s a gorgeous afternoon for baseball at Camden Yards, and the Orioles and Yankees are getting ready for Thursday’s opener. No, there isn’t any real baseball in Baltimore during this coronavirus pandemic, but there will be baseball on my dining...
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... I have followed suit, busting my own kids out of school for Opening Day and Orioles playoff games, and I was thrilled to introduce Strat-O-Matic to my son when ...
Opening Day would have been just one day away. It’s uncertain when the real opener will be played because we don’t know when, or even if, baseball will be given the all-clear to return in 2020. Let’s assume the game will be back. Here are five...
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... r) and Milone (sore trapezius) threw in a simulated game not long before the Orioles were scheduled to leave for their game in Fort Myers. They had combined for ...
On Monday, Geoff Arnold would have boarded his first Orioles’ team flight, bound for Baltimore and his initial regular-season game on Thursday. Before that, the Orioles were scheduled for a game at the Naval Academy with the New York Mets. The...
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... disinterested, and asks him to help her walk the dogs. When you are missing @Orioles baseball and decide to kick off your “2nd spring training” a little bit earl ...
Last week’s conference calls with Oriole’ executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias and manager Brandon Hyde were full of generalities and short on specifics. That’s understandable because so little is known about what the 2020 season will...
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... ketball fans as the field in the NCAA tournament would be trimmed to 16. The Orioles would have been playing their final games in Florida before Thursday’s sched ...
Brandon Hyde is as unsure about what lies ahead for the Orioles in the immediate future as everyone else. It was eight days ago when the final 11 days of spring training were cancelled, and now he’s just waiting. “There are just so many things that...
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... g for jobs and making it hard on us to make tough decisions at the end.” The Orioles have 50 players on their spring training roster, and Hyde will have to make ...
Usually, Mike Elias has easy answers for questions lobbed to him during conferences with the media, whether on the phone or in person. In Thursday’s conference call, he couldn’t give specifics because like everyone else in this country, Elias doesn’t
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... RTISEMENT Grondahl also acknowledged that the financial implications for the Orioles were likely to be substantial due to the shutdown. “It would be naïve of any ...
