Eduardo A. Encina
Eduardo A. Encina is entering his fourth season as Orioles beat writer for The Baltimore Sun. A Jessup native and University of Maryland graduate, Encina previously covered another American League East team, the Tampa Bay Rays, for the St. Petersburg Times and the Tampa Tribune. In his career, Encina also has covered the Tampa Bay Lightning, Penn State football and high school sports. He has won four Associated Press Sports Editors awards and was one of the lead writers for a package that won APSE’s top investigative award in 2007.
Recent Articles
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Possible candidates to be the Orioles' next manager
One of Mike Elias’ first moves as the Orioles’ new executive vice president and general manager will be to decide who the team’s field general of the future will be. Here are potential candidates to be the next Orioles manager. Joe Espada Espada has been mentioned as a possibility for other managerial...
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Farewell, Baltimore: Orioles beat writer Eduardo A. Encina says goodbye as he leaves The Sun
This week has been one full of goodbyes, both professionally and personally. And every time, I try to talk about what being able to cover the Orioles for The Baltimore Sun means to me, my eyes become watery, I get choked up and words become difficult. I didn’t think it would be that way, but when...
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Buck Showalter, Dan Duquette out after Orioles' worst season in team history
Buck Showalter, the on-field architect of three Orioles playoff teams and a lifelong baseball man who instilled a winning culture in a team long used to losing, will not return to the team as manager or in any capacity next season. Neither will executive vice president Dan Duquette, the club announced...
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Adieu, adieu? Baltimore says farewell to Jones, Showalter during emotional season finale
Sunday marked not only the end of the worst season in Orioles history, but potentially the end of an era. Still, in the final day of a lost season, the atmosphere at Camden Yards was one of mixed sorrow and celebration, a final opportunity to embrace a pair of key figures who helped bring winning...
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Adam Jones returns to center field, is honored by teammates before what's possibly his final game with Orioles
For years, Adam Jones led the Orioles onto the field at Camden Yards before every game. The team’s unofficial captain and longtime starting center fielder was the first to step out of the dugout and take his place on the field before the national anthem, other players following him in step. And...
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'You won’t see many of them like him in the future': Fans, community brace for likely farewell to Orioles' Adam Jones
The tributes to Adam Jones will reach a crescendo Sunday as the Orioles’ face of the franchise for more than a decade will play what will likely be his final game in the uniform with which he’s become synonymous. If the past two nights were any indication, Jones will receive a standing ovation...
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Adam Jones: 'End of an era' for Buck Showalter, who gave Orioles accountability and could be gone after season
Over the past several days, Orioles manager Buck Showalter has been asked to measure Adam Jones’ impact on the franchise. And as Sunday could potentially be the final game with the club for both longtime fixtures with their contracts expiring at the end of the season, Jones was asked after Saturday’s...
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Orioles notes: Miguel Castro ends season early with knee injury
Right-hander Miguel Castro again served an important role as a multiple-inning reliever for the Orioles this season, but his season ended prematurely with a right knee injury. Castro, who has not pitched since Sept. 22, said Saturday he was done for the season. “Thankfully, the knee feels better,”...