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Young Orioles starter Mike Wright holds White Sox to two runs on five hits over six innings.

A report out of Chicago says Melky Cabrera is headed to the White Sox.

By now, we know how Orioles VP Dan Duquette shops. He's not shopping at Nordstrom. He's shopping at Nordstrom Rack -- on the additional 30 percent off clearance rack.

The Orioles began to narrow their focus Tuesday at Major League Baseball's winter meetings in order to fill the outfield void left by the departures of Nelson Cruz and Nick Markakis.

Baseball's annual winter meetings officially begin today in San Diego, and Dan Duquette will speak to Orioles reporters at 6 p.m.

Nick Markakis on Wednesday agreed to terms on a four-year, $44 million deal with the Atlanta Braves, according to industry sources.

The Boston Red Sox splashed big with signings of Pablo Sandoval and Hanley Ramirez, which could make the Orioles free agent targets more in demand.

The Orioles struggled mightily against Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Drew Hutchison, managing only one hit in a 5-1 loss Wednesday night in front of an announced 33,054 at the Rogers Centre.

Three Orioles players -- designated hitter Nelson Cruz, center fielder Adam Jones and catcher Matt Wieters -- were selected by fans to start at their respective positions for the American League in the All-Star Game on July 15 at Target Field in Minneapolis.

Adam Jones is having a career year for the Orioles, but his candidacy for the All-Star game is being dissected.

Adam Jones makes a strong case to join Nelson Cruz as an All Star. Others seem unlikely

On Thursday night, against a Toronto Blue Jays team that has one of the most dangerous lineups in baseball, right-hander Kevin Gausman made a strong case to remain in the Orioles starting rotation.

Designated hitter Nelson Cruz and catcher Matt Wieters continue to lead their respective positions in American League All-Star voting, according to fan balloting figures released Sunday night.

The overused Orioles bullpen -- asked to do so much over the first five games of this road trip -- gave up a pair of three-run homers in the eighth inning in a 9-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.

If you just look at the 9-3 final score from the Orioles' loss Tuesday night in Toronto, you'd never know that the club is riding a strange wave of reversible momentum.

The Blue Jays traded for R.A. Dickey ahead of the 2013 season for the knuckleballer to anchor their rebuilt rotation, but he hasn't found much success against his division rival from Baltimore.

The Orioles resumed talks with prospective free agents and possible trade partners during the first official day of the winter meetings Monday, and executive vice president Dan Duquette remains confident he will return to Baltimore with a new acquisition.

The hot-stove rumor of the day pertaining to the Orioles involves the club being interested in signing free-agent Jhonny Peralta to man left field, according to FOXSports.com

Remembering when Roger Maris brought his pursuit of sports history to Baltimore in 1961

The Orioles couldn't wait to get out of Canada following Sunday's 13-5 loss to the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre.

A day after Darren O'Day struck him out, Toronto right fielder gets revenge with game-winning homer

The 2013 baseball season could be unlike any other in history, with an unprecedented wave of suspensions possible by the All-Star break in the mushrooming Biogenesis scandal.

TORONTO ¿ Some of you are wondering why Orioles manager Buck Showalter stuck with closer Jim Johnson in the ninth inning of the Orioles¿ 6-5 loss to Toronto on Sunday afternoon.

For the second time within an 18-hour span, the Orioles bats jumped on a Toronto starter early.

In their third victory in four games, the Orioles hit four homers, including J.J. Hardy's three-run blast to left off Blue Jays rookie Sean Nolin just three batters into the game.

Kevin Gausman, who made his major league debut on Thursday, will remain in the Orioles¿ starting rotation for the time being. If anything, the poise he showed on the mound in his first start gives the Orioles greater confidence that he can help the team win at the big league level.

Right-hander Josh Stinson yielded four homers to the Toronto Blue Jays in his Orioles debut Wednesday afternoon, the most allowed by an Orioles starter in nearly 11 months.

And the Orioles' confidence in Strop to preserve a one-run lead in the eighth inning of their 4-3 win over the Blue Jays on Tuesday night was rewarded in turn.

The Orioles battered reigning National League Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey at Camden Yards in their first meeting against him as a member of the bolstered Toronto Blue Jays.

They nearly gave it away, but in the ninth inning Ryan Flaherty hit a three-run, two-out, walk-off homer to give the Orioles an 11-10 victory against the Toronto Blue Jays.

The Blue Jays have brought a pretty good lineup to Sarasota on Thursday, for early March anyway

The Baltimore sports scene is blessed with a bunch of talented bloggers who bring their unique perspective to the conversation. Each week, Matt Vensel of The Baltimore Sun hopes to chat with one of them in a regular feature called Blogger on Blogger. This week, he exchanged emails with Daniel Moroz, who writes about the Orioles for his blog, Camden Crazies.

Orioles infielder Danny Valencia, who was linked to a Miami-area clinic that has allegedly supplied performance-enhancing drugs to a dozen players, vehemently denied every using any performance-enhancing drug on Wednesday addressing the situation to the media.

Toronto's new manager discusses his job, his Blue Jays and what he thinks of the Orioles

Orioles third baseman Danny Valencia has been linked to a Miami-area clinic that allegedly distributed performance-enhancing drugs to several major league baseball players, according to a report from Yahoo! Sports.

Major League Baseball and the players association have agreed to take the next step toward eradicating performance-enhancing drugs from the game by expanding random blood testing for human growth hormone to during the season and conducting additional testing for testosterone.

First off, some full disclosure here. I was one of the masses who spent the early morning hours chasing doorbusters and trying to get a leg up on Holiday shopping. Part of it is to get some deals -- or at least the idea of them ¿ and the other part is the experience. You see a lot of interesting things.

Lance Armstrong's decision not to fight doping charges makes his claim to innocence ring hollow

The Melky Cabrera-Jonathan Sanchez deal and the Jeremy Guthrie-Jason Hammel/Matt Lindstrom one appear to be among the most lopsided trades of 2012.