Orioles starting pitcher Dylan Bundy and outfielder Dwight Smith Jr. arrived at the final day of the Grapefruit League season at opposite ends of the spring training zeitgeist. Bundy, who gave up four runs on nine hits over 4 2/3 innings in the Orioles’ 9-7 loss Monday to the New York Mets, was...
Dig past the agenda being set for the Orioles’ rebuild — player development trumping all — and there’s still a game against another major league team every night through September. The players — who will be judged most on the 2019 season that begins Thursday at the New York Yankees after an upbeat...
Right-hander Mike Wright made his last start of the Grapefruit League exhibition season Friday night, pitching four innings in the Orioles’ 4-0 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays at Dunedin Stadium. Wright has been at the front of the competition for one of the last slots in the starting rotation and...
The Orioles’ outfield situation got a little clearer Friday when the club released Eric Young Jr. The 33-year-old outfield candidate, who was signed right before the start of spring training, said he was surprised when he was informed he wouldn’t be making the club, but left open the possibility...
Two months after he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Mike Mussina still had a hard time believing his good fortune. “Gratifying is a good word,” Mussina said Thursday after touring baseball's shrine to prepare for his July induction. “I'm an example of someone that didn't win a ton of...
Conventional wisdom tells us this is not going to be a good year for the Orioles. The first full season of a rebuilding project seldom is, so it would be easy enough to write the whole thing off as irrelevant to the fans and the city. It is anything but. The Orioles might lose 100 games or more....
Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark said Wednesday that, while he understands teams such as the Orioles might have to “recycle or rebuild,” he remains concerned that the decision to delay fan gratification could threaten the viability of some of those franchises....
A pair of standout pitching performances by Orioles veterans Alex Cobb and Andrew Cashner over the past week came in spring training games that don't mean much, save for one factor that could be a difference-maker. Cobb and Cashner both had good days on the mound with Chance Sisco behind the plate,...
New York Yankees guest instructor and former Orioles manager Lee Mazzilli was struck in the head by a ball in batting practice Wednesday and taken to a local hospital. Yankees spokesman Jason Zillo said in an email that Mazzilli “will spend the night at the hospital for observation.” In his only...
Orioles infielder Alcides Escobar was granted his unconditional release Wednesday, the team announced, as the club took another step toward paring down its Opening Day roster. Escobar, a former All-Star and Gold Glove Award winner with the Kansas City Royals, signed a minor league contract during...
Mike Elias couldn't have been anywhere more fitting when the call came last fall from his boss in Houston, Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow, to relay that the Orioles requested to interview him for the promotion of a lifetime. He was on the road, scouting at a Dominican Prospect League tournament...