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Welcome to the first post in a season-long blog on your beloved Orioles. As an outsider looking in (and a Cleveland Indians fan) the two things about the Orioles that stir any emotion in me whatsoever are as follows — the bald bouncer from the Je…

In a lot of ways, it’s more of the same for the Orioles.  They’re probably going to lose 90 games and they were never really in contention in the second half of the season.  But unlike most years, I think there’s some glimmer of hope you can take from 2007 as you think about the [...]

The Orioles have a little more then two months to go in yet another mediocre season but in my opinion, I think we really have something to build on here.  The Orioles rotation is coming around and it’s coming around in a big way and if there’s one spot where a team can show an [...]

It looks like another meaningless second half of baseball for Orioles fans.  At least sort of.  There’s the hollow goals, like staying out of last place and not losing 100 games but probably more then any other year, Orioles fans have to be disappointed with how things are going.  At eleven gaves below .500, the [...]

Miguel Tejada things he’ll be back in the Orioles lineup after the minimum 15 days on the disabled list.  Will Carroll thinks otherwise and I tend to agree with his assessment.  You don’t see someone come back from a broken anything in two weeks and he compares the fracture to what happened to Derek Lee [...]

What more can you say then, this team stinks.  Yeah, they have some good players, and yes as Orioles fans we should be used to this, but it’s still a drag.  Nothing seems to quite go right for the Orioles.  Bruce Chen?  Danny Cabrera?  Heck, even Chris Ray have all been hyped but none of [...]

It looks like, after another mediocre start and some questionable calls, that Sam Perlozzo may be on the chopping block soon.  While the Orioles haven’t been horrible and they had a decent start in April, things have fallen off and at 20-23, they find themselves 9 1/2 games back of Boston.  Even being in second [...]

It’s been three weeks, but I’m back.  Some net problems at Baseball Historians HQ caused some posting problems so I was out of action.  I missed the four game winning streak that pushed the Orioles back up to .500 but now, after four straight losses, the Orioles are back are well back of the first [...]

I guess I don’t like these two game series, considering the Orioles have gotten swept in both of theirs this weekend.  This time it was two at the hands of the Red Sox and with the four game losing streak, the Orioles are now back to an even .500 record.
Once again, it was a lack of offense [...]

Well, the Orioles nice winning streak came to an abrupt end when the Athletics came to town.  Erik Bedard was hit hard yesterday and he surrendered five runs in the fourth inning and never had the lead in a 6-5 loss.  Bedard lost his first game since opening day and he gave up five runs [...]

Don’t look now, but the Orioles have won four straight and they ahead of both the Yankees and the Blue Jays, and just behind the Red Sox, in the American League Central.  They did it with a three game sweep over the Blue Jays and you wonder if things are just starting to click.  I know [...]

The Orioles scored 19 runs in their three game series this week against the Devil Rays and they took two of those three games.  The first game on Monday was the most impressive hitting display as the Orioles racked up nine runs.  Freddie Bynum, Melvin Mora and Aubrey Huff all went yard in the game.  [...]

Don’t look now, but the Orioles are twelve games into the season and they’re .500.  After three straight wins over the Royals, the Orioles sit at 6-6 and they’re in the mix in a tight AL East race.  Yeah, it’s early but Orioles fans can’t be too picky.
On Thursday, Jay Gibbons had a walk off [...]

Three series down, two series lost.  This is the way it’s been for Orioles fans for some time though and this week was no exception as the Tigers came into town and took two of three from the Orioles.
Things got off to a good start on Monday as the Orioles opened Camden Yards.  They jumped [...]

Happy days.  The Orioles went into Yankee Stadium and took two of three from the former division champs.  They got off to a good start on Friday witha 6-4 win.  Nick Markakis and Jay Gibbons drove in two runs while Melvin Mora had three hits and two runs.  Adam Loewen pitched five solid innings and [...]

It’s already getting ugly for Orioles fans and I’m going to have to break out those Earl Weaver years retrospectives sooner just to lighten the mood.  The Orioles were swept by the Twins and this time it was Ramon Ortiz who did a number on the Twins.  While that was happening, Jaret Wright was getting [...]

I guess we should get used to this.  This time, the Orioles had the pitching with Danny Cabrera throwing seven solid innings.  Unfortunately, the hitters racked up only two runs on five hits.  Your two runs came on a Melvin Mora solo shot and a Aubrey Huff RBI single.  Huff actually had a pretty solid [...]

Erik Bedard took it on the chin today.  I didn’t realize the Twins offense was this good until I saw them on TV today but man do they have a solid middle of the order.  Bedard saw it too, to the tune of six runs on ten hits and he didn’t even make it through [...]

MiLB.com continued their look at spring training camps with a look at the Orioles.  The burning question has to do with how well the Orioles have done the past two years in the draft and then there’s a Q&A with Jeff Fiorentino.  Good read with a ton of information.

Rob Neyer talks about the Mazzone Effect on his blog.  Erik Beddard put together an impressive run against the Red Sox recently and that’s his spring board into how much of an impact Leo Mazzone can have on the pitching staff.  He also predicts the Orioles to finish fourth, which also isn’t much of a [...]

David Gassko at the Hardball Times recently took a look at the five key questions the Orioles have leading into 2007.  He talks about the reunion between Leo Mazzone and Jaret Wright as well as whether we can expect anything out of Melvin Mora in 2007.  He wraps things up with a prediction that the [...]

The Orioles managed only one run on five hits today against some pretty mediocre pitching by the Red Sox.  The only run of the game came when Aubrey Huff singled home Miguel Tejada in the fourth inning.
Daniel Cabrera was in his usual form. He gave up a single run but he walked five in five [...]

The Orioles extended the contract of Brian Roberts by two years yesterday.  He’ll make an additional $14.3 million over that time, which isn’t too bad of a deal if Roberts can find his way back to his old form before his injury in 2005.  Regardless, he’s a productive second baseman and that’s nothing to scoff [...]

In an organizational preview, MiLB.com takes a look at the Orioles minor league system.  There’s a ton of stuff here including player profiles for each farm team and it looks like the expected standouts are Bill Rowell and Pedro Beato.  It’s a nice read and a good overall look at the things.

It’s been a pretty good spring for the Orioles.  They’re now 7-2 and only the Yankees have a better spring record in the American League.  Even more impressive is that they did it against Japanese phenom Matsuzaka.  They bounced him for four runs in his four innings with Jason Dubois (two for three with a [...]

Pretty nice.  Melvin Mora doubled twice and he drove in four runs as the Orioles took out the Mets today 6-3.  Brian Roberts scored twice and he doubled and drew a walk.
Jaret Wright threw a shutout inning in the first inning Waters had a decent outing with two shutout frames.  Tomorrow, the Orioles take on [...]

Spring baseball has started for the Orioles and similar to most days last year, the Orioles lost.  Steve Trachsel got the Orioles off to a rough start when he gave up three runs in the first inning.  Brian Burres was also hammered as was Deza, who gave up a two run walk off homerun to [...]

Jamie Walker had to make a trip to the hospital today when he took a comebacker to the back of the head off of the bat of Nick Markakis.  He’s got a minor concussion and it’s unclear as to when he’ll be back.

The Orioles avoided arbitration with Erik Bedard when they signed him to a one year, $3.4 million deal deal.  He could make another $100k is he hits various innings pitched total so if he goes 200 innings, it’ll end up being a $3.5 million deal.
Bedard broke out in 2006 and won 15 games with 171 [...]

Hayden Penn had a tough 2006 season.  His season was derailed by an appendectomy of all things and after a red start at Triple A, Penn came back from the surgery and struggled.  His 2006 line looks like something out of a video game (that you’d see from the opposition) but this is a guy [...]