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- The Orioles might be losing at a near-record pace, but it's not because they are trying to make sure they pick first in next year's draft.
- Former Orioles center fielder Adam Jones was always a fascinating case of new-school player-evaluation methods disagreeing with the well-worn traits that baseball has valued for generations. His free agency showed how stark that was, both locally and nationally.
- This Orioles camp may be the first in a decade where Adam Jones won't be taking a prominent role in the happenings in Sarasota.
- As the Orioles search for a top executive stretches on, the work former Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington did in building the 2018 World Series champion should stand out for how he ran a complete organization before his dismissal.
- Orioles manager Buck Showalter led the Orioles to success as part of a wave taking over the game that emphasize bullpen usage and defense. That the rest of the league caught up and passed them on that front doesn't take away from the success it brought.
- Trey Mancini drove in three runs, Adam Jones had three hits and the Orioles' stars helped them best a star-less Red Sox team, 10-3, Wednesday night at Fenway Park.
- The Orioles are now 4-18 on the road this season.
- The Orioles' relievers are drawing interest, and they can be picky before dealing one of their top bullpen arms.
- Orioles center fielder Adam Jones had a precautionary X-ray on his right hand after Craig Kimbrel hit him with a fastball Tuesday night.
- The Orioles decided to add ahead of Monday's trade deadline, but so did many of the American League's contenders.
- The shortest outing of Dylan Bundy’s otherwise strong 2017 season had a particularly foul feeling to it.
- Spot starter Alec Asher, taking the ball for the second time this year for the Orioles, only had a few hiccups en route to another quality start, but he didn’t
- One of the Orioles’ ugliest Grapefruit League games of the season might have overshadowed right-hander Tyler Wilson’s continuing late spring-training surge for
- Roger McDowell, who spent the last 11 seasons with the Atlanta Braves, is the new Orioles pitching coach.
- Will the game remember Zach Britton for the 47 saves in 47 chances, the 0.54 ERA in 67 innings over 69 games, or his exclusion from the top three vote-getters for the American League Cy Young Award and the immediate — maybe long-term — shift in relief pitching philosophy that was the defining storyline of the playoffs after Showalter didn't use him?
- Taking a look at the Orioles' pitching coach search
- Looking at the key additions, key losses and outlooks for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays.
- Who has the best bullpen in the AL East? And who has the best late-inning combo in the division?
- The Atlanta Braves just traded one of the best closers in the league and are conceding the season, which can't be what Nick Markakis was expecting when he signed with them last winter.
- Orioles right-hander Tommy Hunter knows that the first step in being a good closer is realizing that there's no such thing as a perfect one.
- The Orioles-A's trade had little to do with the relative strengths of Jim Johnson and Jemile Weeks. Instead, it was a commentary on our evolving understanding of the value of closers.
- Orioles right-hander Jason Hammel will start Friday's series opener in Tampa Bay, manager Buck Showalter announced before Tuesday's game in Boston.
- In the top of the fifth inning of Tuesday night's 84th All-Star Game, Adam Jones led off with a double against the Philadelphia Phillies' Cliff Lee, moved to third on a single by the Minnesota Twins' Joe Mauer and then scored on a fielder's choice ground out by J.J. Hardy.
- There are no secrets as far as Orioles right-hander Tommy Hunter is concerned. He figures he's been a good pitcher in the past and he'll be a good pitcher in the future.
- Jim Johnson tied the Orioles' franchise record by converting his 34th consecutive save opportunity, matching Randy Myers' mark set in 1997.
- Members of the Orioles starting rotation have had their struggles getting deep into games, but right-hander Jason Hammel gave the team a gritty six-inning effort against the Dodgers in Game 1 of Saturday's doubleheader.
- MLB announced today that Tampa Bay¿s Fernando Rodney was chosen for the top reliever award by a baseball panel.
- If there's anything fans will remember about the eighth inning of Tuesday night's All-Star Game in Kansas City, it'll probably be seeing flamethrowers Craig Kimbrel and Aroldis Chapman light up the radar gun one after the other for the National League.
- Long a solid center fielder and one of baseball's best baserunners, Curtis Granderson has turned into a beast at the plate since working with New York Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long to rework his swing.