montreal expos

This year's July 2 signing period is expected to yield 30 new amateurs for the Orioles and herald a new beginning for a department that was left behind.

By Jon Meoli

Jul 1, 2019

Baseball union says Rays would need its permission to play games in Montreal

Rio Ruiz, the Orioles' hottest hitter in May, has found that all those hitting coaches who preach consistency and routine just might be onto something.

By Jon Meoli

May 17, 2019

A Major League Baseball arbitration committee issued its long-awaited decision that the Orioles-controlled Mid-Atlantic Sports Network must pay the neighboring Washington Nationals increased fees for the right to broadcast their games.

By Jeff Barker

May 3, 2019

A New York State Supreme Court justice ruled Tuesday that the Orioles can seek arbitration outside Major League Baseball's system in part of their long-running legal dispute with the Washington Nationals over television rights.

By Jon Meoli

Apr 10, 2019

The Orioles will honor the memory of their former Hall of Fame player and manager Frank Robinson, who passed away earlier this month, with a jersey patch for the 2019 season.

By Jon Meoli

Feb 20, 2019

Orioles outfielder Frank Robinson had those skinny legs and a gingerly gait that made it seem as if his feet always hurt. But the ferocity with which he played baseball belied his appearance.

Hall of Famer Frank Robinson led the Orioles to their first World Series title in 1966, was the first African-American manager in both the American and National Leagues and managed the Orioles for parts of four seasons. Here’s a timeline of his career.

Frank Robinson helped lead the Orioles to their first World Series title in 1966.

By Peter Schmuck

Jan 29, 2019

Examining the recent difficult decisions by the Baseball Hall of Fame on hat choices as Mike Mussina has the option of going in this year as a Yankee or Oriole.

By Jon Meoli

Jan 23, 2019

Rick Down, who was the hitting coach when the Orioles set the then-major league record with 257 home runs in 1996, is dead at 68 after a long illness.

By Peter Schmuck

Jan 10, 2019

As long as the American League continues tipping toward New York and Boston franchises, a Baltimore team is doomed to second place or worse.

A pair of former Orioles—outfielder Harold Baines and reliever Lee Smith—were selected Sunday for the 2019 Baseball Hall of Fame class by the Today's Game committee.

By Jon Meoli

Dec 9, 2018

From their playing days in college to their success in MLB, here's how Mike Elias and Dan Duquette stack up to each other.

By Jennifer Badie

Nov 19, 2018

The Orioles and Washington Nationals finished their arguments in a two-day rehearing before a committee of baseball executives in their long-running dispute over television rights fees.

The MASN dispute between the Orioles and Nationals goes before an arbitration panel this week.

By Jon Meoli

Nov 15, 2018

Five Orioles staffers in varying roles with significant connections to former executive vice president Dan Duquette were let go Friday, just before the majority of the contracts in the organization are set to expire.

By Jon Meoli

Oct 27, 2018

Dan Duquette won't be offered a new contract to return as Orioles executive vice president.

By Jon Meoli

Oct 3, 2018

Buck Showalter won't return to manage the Orioles in 2019, according to an industry source, ending what until this season had been a productive relationship with the manager who took over in August 2010 and brought playoff baseball back to Baltimore and an organization that was starved for it.

The Orioles have proposed a series of settlements to Major League Baseball in hopes of finally resolving the television rights fee dispute with the Washington Nationals that hovers over both teams like a cloud, according to multiple sources familiar with the proposals.

By Jeff Barker

Jul 1, 2018

The Orioles remain mired in the long-running dispute with Major League Baseball and the Washington Nationals over the revenue split from the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, and it is beginning to create some angst over the future of baseball in Baltimore.

By Peter Schmuck

Jun 23, 2018

Richie Palacios, selected by Cleveland in the third round of the major league baseball draft, is the third-highest player chosen in Towson history.

By Katherine Fominykh

Jun 6, 2018

While it can be easy to evaluate draft prospects based on radar-gun readings and other superficial numbers, the Orioles clearly looked beyond them Tuesday.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Jun 5, 2018

Dennis Martinez, Stan White, Lewis Ray and Reggie Jackson were in the news.

By Mike Klingaman

Jun 3, 2018

Where do the Orioles rank among these 10 when it comes to the misery they’ve inflicted on themselves and their fans?

By Childs Walker

Mar 22, 2018

Eric Bell, Jack Marin and Gus Johnson were on the sports pages this time of year.

By Mike Klingaman

Mar 11, 2018

Former Orioles ace Mike Mussina saw his vote total climb again in the balloting for the Baseball Hall of Fame, but missed out on induction, while Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome, and Trevor Hoffman earned induction as the class of 2018.

By Jon Meoli

Jan 24, 2018

Peter Schmuck looks ahead to World Series and back on last time Dodgers and Astros met in the postseason.

By Peter Schmuck

Oct 23, 2017

An appeals court ruled the Orioles-controlled Mid-Atlantic Sports Network must return to a MLB arbitration panel for a resolution to its long-running dispute.

By Jeff Barker

Jul 13, 2017

The iconic structure at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has been struck on the fly by one home run, by Ken Griffey Jr. at the 1993 All-Star Home Run Derby

By Eduardo A. Encina

Jul 10, 2017

Buck Showalter wasn't happy with the Nats. Now he has company.

By Jonas Shaffer

Jul 7, 2017

Former Orioles Ross Grimsley and Tippy Martinez stayed in the Baltimore area after their professional baseball playing days ended three decades ago to build lives beyond baseball

Washington Redskins general manager Scot McCloughan is not attending the NFL combine in Indianapolis.

Terence A. "Terry" Dalton, a former reporter who later became a professor of journalism at McDaniel College, died Friday from Alzheimer's disease at SpiriTrust, a Gettysburg, Pa., nursing home and hospice. He was 71.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jan 31, 2017

There's still a few weeks remaining in the Orioles' offseason, but even with the roster not necessarily finished, the re-signing of slugger Mark Trumbo to a three-year contract makes clear that their core beliefs haven't changed.

By Jon Meoli

Jan 21, 2017

It took Tim Raines up until his 10th and final season on the ballot to be elected into baseball’s Hall of Fame.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Jan 18, 2017

Although it might be a loose one, player with Orioles connection likely to be elected to Hall of Fame Wednesday

By Eduardo A. Encina

Jan 18, 2017

Orioles stars Manny Machado, Adam Jones, and Jonathan Schoop will represent their respective countries in the World Baseball Classic this March.

By Jon Meoli

Nov 9, 2016

Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette said he knew nothing about a report that he was being pursued to be team president of the Washington Nationals.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Apr 12, 2016

Gottlieb, a Towson alumnus and its coach since 1988, ranks 39th in wins among active college baseball coaches with a record of 700-769-10.

By Mike Klingaman

Mar 29, 2016

It's so clear now. The deal that brought Hall of Famer Frank Robinson to Baltimore — exactly 50 years ago — is the best trade in Orioles history for so many reasons that there really is no room for debate on the subject. On Dec. 9, 1965, the Orioles sent starting pitcher Milt Pappas, reliever Jack Baldschun and outfielder Dick Simpson to the Cincinnati Reds for a former National League Rookie of the Year and MVP who would immediately lead the club to its first World Series title.

By Peter Schmuck

Dec 9, 2015

It¿s almost hard to believe that Hall of Famer Frank Robinson turned 80 on Monday, but it has been 59 years since he led the Orioles to their first world championship in his first season in an Orioles uniform.

By Peter Schmuck

Sep 1, 2015

They came from very different cultural backgrounds and very different eras of Orioles baseball, but Melvin Mora and Gary Roenicke showed up at a very special place at exactly the same time. Both were inducted into the Orioles Hall of Fame during a ceremony before Friday night's series opener between the Orioles and Oakland Athletics at Oriole Park. Outfielder John Lowenstein who teamed with Roenicke in a legendary left-field platoon during the 1983 world championship season, and long-time scout

By Peter Schmuck

Aug 14, 2015

He had Harpo Marx hair, kept a stuffed gorilla atop his locker and uncorked a harrowing scream before each game. "Stan The Man Unusual," teammate Mike Flanagan called him, so Don Stanhouse had T-shirts made with that moniker and a likeness of himself sticking out his tongue.

By Mike Klingaman

Jul 24, 2015

The MASN court case outcome has implications for the bottom line of the network, and for the clubs' ability to sign players.

By Jeff Barker

May 15, 2015

The Orioles' game tonight against the Chicago White Sox has been postponed. It's the second straight game the teams will miss because of rioting downtown.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Apr 28, 2015

Mid-Atlantic Sports Network is 10 years old. Here's how it navigates between serving two teams.

By Jeff Barker

Apr 18, 2015

The Orioles, a surprise in 2014, return to their nest fine feather — even if some doubt they'll take flight again

Washington hasn't had a baseball All-Star game since the Senators hosted the game at RFK Stadium in 1969.