Baltimore Orioles

By SC But then I realize, "Wow. I'm going to hate the guts of this team in a year or so, too." I know some of y'all don't think the Rays can come up with a fanbase as obnoxious and despicable as "Red Sox Nation" or "Yankee Universe," I pose to you a question: ever been to Florida? Ever talk to some of these p...

By Stacey The Orioles and MASN will offer $1 tickets in a select section of the upper deck at Camden Yards during the month of September, the team announced today in a news release. Tickets for the MASN Maximum Access section must be purchased at least 24 hours before the game.

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By SC The Orioles are 20-23 in one-run games, a massive improvement on the 13-31 mark from 2007, which was by far the worst in Major League Baseball. Jeremy Guthrie is tied for sixth in the American League in ERA (3.28). The top ten, with W-L records thrown in, looks like this:

By dkdc The real downside is that the Orioles will need a catcher other than Wieters on opening day 2009. That may mean they will decide to hold on to Ramon Hernandez, or they may just try to pretend that Quiroz is a starting catcher. It should be an interesting storyline to watch.

By Stacey Dear Dave Trembley, Please don't ever let Jamie Walker pitch in any game where the run differential is less than or equal to five runs. He is beyond awful. Sincerely, Orioles Fans

By Stacey It's August 22, 2008 and I'm not a miserable Orioles fan. It seems like a miracle until I remember the press conference on August 22, 2007 before the infamous 30-3 game. They announced Dave Trembley as the new permanent manager and I wasn't a miserable Orioles fan. Then the rest of the season cr...

By SC For that matter, Luke Scott isn't quite so good (.514 SLG, 21 HR, 22 doubles), but he's done some slugging this year, too. Melvin Mora's got 20 homers (.488 SLG, a lot due to his hot streak). Markakis is slugging .496 (17 HR,  39 doubles). The Orioles (144 HR) are fourth in the American League in jack...

By SC Kevin Millar homered twice, Juan Epstein pitched for the Rangers (he has a better poof 'do than his profile photo suggests), and the Orioles routed the Rangers, 9-1. Poor Texas is sort of competing for the wild card right now, so these are games they really need. I mean, it'd take a minor mir...

By SC Y'all that are theorizin' and speculatin' on the future of Chris Waters in the Baltimore Orioles rotation are hiiiiiiigh. Y'all that read anything into Lou Montanez hitting a home run in his first major league at-bat are hiiiiiigh.

By duck BALTIMORE Lou Montanez finds his way into the starting lineup today, as does anti-vampire Guillermo Quiroz, who ONLY plays in daylight. Alex Cintron makes an appearance, Melvin Mora gets the day off and Luke Scott will be the DH and hopefully resting that sore Achilles in between at-bats....

By duck W-L 8-6           ERA 4.65 JON GARLAND (RHP) W-L 10-6         ERA 4.30 K 63                   Walks 45 WHIP 1.45 BALTIMORE  1. 2B Roberts 2. RF Markakis 3. 3B Mora 4. DH Huff 5. C Hernandez 6. 1B Millar 7. LF Scott 8. CF Payton 9. SS Castro ANAHEIM  1. 3B Figgins 2. SS Aybar 3. 1B Teixeira 4. RF Guerrero

By Stacey August 1-3 marked my third trip to a baseball city this summer, the first two being Milwaukee and Chicago. This was, however, my first trip that didn't involve the Orioles. It was also probably the first time in my entire life that I've blatantly rooted for a team other than the O's. I've been to...

 MD - Aug 3, 2008 It will be the first road sweep of the year, if I'm reading my Baltimore Sun Schedule/Results page correctly. Carlos Silva has won exactly 1 game since ...

By duck Daniel Cabrera (RHP) W-L 7-6          ERA 4.81 K 80              Walks 66 WHIP 1.48 Baltimore Orioles Seattle Mariners BALTIMORE 1. Brian Roberts - 2B 2. Jay Payton - CF 3. Nick Markakis - RF 4. Aubrey Huff - DH 5. Melvin Mora - 3B 6. Kevin Millar - 1B 7. Luke Scott - LF 9. Alex Cintron - SS SEATTLE

By Birdfan01 Catcher Orioles system seems to be on the rise, but they have a lot of holes to fill at the major league level. One thing that I noticed is that the Orioles have the potential to be strong up the middle with Jones, Wieters and a good amount of pitching prospects. Short stop and second base need to b...

By SC BALTIMORE, M.D.) – MASN, the local leader in live sports entertainment, has announced that longtime Baltimore sports journalist and personality Roch Kubatko has joined the network as an on-air personality and blogger, bringing his successful Roch Around the Clock blog to MASNsport...

By SC I say keep Roberts, keep Guthrie (whose name hasn't come up but you have to realize he's one of our most valuable pieces), and even keep Daniel Cabrera. If nothing else, Cabrera has value in throwing 200 innings a year, which is not the easiest thing to replace. Keep obvious guys like Jones and...

By SC Following ex-Orioles like Miguel Tejada and Erik Bedard is easy, because people talk about those guys and how they lie about their age, do steroids and don't want to be aces -- anything but an ace! -- and it's easy to follow ex-Orioles like Jeff Conine because they're retired.

By SC Jim Johnson wouldn't have been in my top 15 choices to be the Orioles pitching VORP leader on July 5 (the date that this data was updated), but there he is. The bullpen contributions from Johnson, Albers, Sherrill, Sarfate and Cormier have been huge. Poor Steve Trachsel was on his way to an hi...

By SC Over on our right sidebar, just under Cabrera Bowl '08 (where Z and Big Danny have lost some momentum, sadly), is Numbers Watch with Amber Theoharis. You may recall that Amber smiled really big and typed up some fantastical tall tales of scouts agreeing that it would not be weird for Ramon He...

By duck HR BB K W- Jeremy Guthrie (RH) 17 108.2 3.64 1.21 242 15 31 40 4-7 10 60.2 4.60 1.35 283 11 14 52 1-5 BALTIMORE B. Roberts 2b  .294     A. Cintron ss  .279     N. Markakis rf .286     A. Huff 3b    .276      K. Millar 1b .242      L. Scott lf   .278      A. Jones cf   .274      WASHINGTON Let's Go O's.

By zknower The Orioles head to Milwaukee having wrapped up an extremely successful home stand, going 5-1 against the Pirates and the Astros. In fact, the historically awful interleague playing Orioles are 7-2 vs. the Senior Circuit this year. That record, of course, was earned against the dregs of th...

By Stacey List of players who spent time in LF for the Orioles in 2007: Jay Gibbons, Kevin Millar, Jay Payton, Jon Knott, Tike Redman, Freddie Bynum, and Brandon Fahey. In 2006? Jeff Conine, Nick Markakis (he played 24 games in LF in '06 in case you forgot), Luis Matos, David Newhan, Eddie Rogers, Bran...

By SC Hot starts are what they are. But it's generally important to keep in mind that someone as totally fringe-y as Brian Burres, who battled for the fifth spot in the ORIOLES rotation during spring training and has never been much of a prospect or anything, should be looked at kindly.

By SC “Joe got fired up and I guess it got us fired up,” Jason Giambi said after the 2-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Credit the Yankees. Credit Cano and Matsui and Abreu. The team did this. The manager didn't do anything. And if we could hit, the film at 11 would've just been another Yankee los...