Even as new Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias and his top deputy, assistant general manager Sig Mejdal, look to build out the team's staff, the responsibility they'll take in crafting another contending baseball team in Baltimore appears to be significant. That was...
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Baseball's hot stove season, especially when the Orioles aren't involved, is an occasion to compare what other teams are doing now to what the Orioles could have done in the past. But this month, it's not the salary-driven trade of Robinson Cano to the New York Mets and the flawed notion that it...
Fifteen years after "Moneyball" introduced the use of baseball data analytics to the masses, the likes of new Orioles assistant general manager of analytics Sig Mejdal can credit Michael Lewis’ book — and what it brought into focus — for their jobs in baseball. Today, analytics are a necessary,...
Longtime Orioles catcher Caleb Joseph was non-tendered by the team last week and delivered a heartfelt tribute to O’s fans and the organization on Twitter, but it is still possible that he could be back in orange and black next spring. The non-tender means that the team decided not to go through...
The Orioles have decided not to tender 2019 contracts to infielder Tim Beckham and catcher Caleb Joseph, the team announced at Friday night’s deadline to issue deals to arbitration-eligible players. All other players on the 40-man roster, including infielder Jonathan Villar, starter Dylan Bundy...
Baseball's annual nontender deadline, when teams must offer players who are eligible for salary arbitration contracts for the coming season or ultimately release them, used to be a time for the Orioles to try and find bargains from other clubs who might be cutting loose a useful player. This year,...
While new Orioles executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias said upon his introduction last week that he was coming to an organization with good players already in place, he's certainly leaving behind a talented system in Houston. The Astros’ top prospect list came out Monday from Baseball...
Adam Jones didn’t have anything new to report after his first month of free agency when he met briefly with reporters at his annual Ravens tailgate party Sunday morning to benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of Baltimore and the Living Classrooms Foundation. So, he couldn’t guarantee that he would...
For the past quarter-century, John and Louis Angelos have participated in the upper management of the Orioles franchise in a variety of ways, but only on rare occasions have either one of them done so in the public eye. Louis helped organize the effort that resulted in the historic home-and-home...
An Orioles analytics department that was previously marginalized at best and neglected at worst will come under new leadership that will vastly change that. New executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias, who was hired last week from his post as Houston Astros assistant general manager,...
Free agent Manny Machado said Tuesday that his infamous statement, "I'm not the type of player that's going to be Johnny Hustle," made during the Dodgers’ postseason run last month, didn’t come out quite right. "When I was asked that question, I was definitely on the defensive, and I was wrong...