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

Former Orioles pitcher Scott Feldman could be a possibility.

One lesson the Orioles have drawn from recent seasons is that multiyear contracts for starters are too risky.

With six weeks left to fill out their starting rotation, the Orioles find a free-agent market that has only changed in ways that makes things worse for them.

The Orioles' trade for pitcher Jeremy Hellickson feels like the odd first piece of a bigger puzzle as the trade deadline approaches

The Chicago Cubs are starting to look like the defending world champions and the Orioles continued to look defenseless in Saturday night’s 10-2 loss at Camden Yards.

Orioles on deck: What to watch Saturday vs. Cubs, plus series matchups

Jake Arrieta returned to Camden Yards for the first time since he was traded to the Cubs.

The Orioles know it can be costly at the trade deadling, having dealt a bona fide major league starter away in each of the last four Julys.

Free-agent losses, injuries and growing pains are making it difficult for baseball's defending champions to repeat their 2016 success.

Orioles recap: J.J. Hardy's RBI single in 10th lifts Birds over Reds, 2-1

Orioles (8-5) vs. Reds (9-6)

Evgeny Kuznetsov scored twice, Alex Ovechkin had a goal and an assist and the Capitals beat the host Devils, 5-2, on Thursday night to head into the All-Star break with the most points in the NHL.

Adam Gladstone is one of the "Faces of the Winter Meetings"

The Pigtown native deleted his account after posting the messages before returning with his tweets protected.

Twice this month, the Orioles have demoted a starting pitcher from the rotation, only to have him rejoin it shortly thereafter out of circumstance and necessity. There are only so many alternatives inside the organization, and when the Orioles begin to assess the market to add starters through trades over the next few weeks, they might be left wanting as well.

It certainly is no secret in Baltimore and beyond that the Orioles starting rotation is in crisis, which just makes it that much more frustrating for fans to watch from afar as 2015 National League Cy Young Award winner Jake Arrieta continues along his merry way.

Chicago Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta said he recommended Brian Matusz to the Cubs front office.

Orioles' Manny Machado to represent the Dominican Republic in next year's World Baseball Classic.

As the old saying goes: If you have nothing nice to say, wait for the Sports Illustrated cover story to spill it.

Former Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jake Arrieta's Cy Young award was well deserved.

When the Orioles traded Jake Arrieta to the Chicago Cubs on July of 2013, he was toiling in Triple-A , still struggling to fulfill tremendous expectations placed on both him by both the club and himself since he had been anointed one of the promising young home-grown arms destined to bring the Orioles back to respectability.

Jake Arrieta has a legitimate chance to win the NL Cy Young Award tonight, there's a couple of Buck Showlater connection in the manager of the year awards, David Ortiz is retiring and Manny Machado missed on the Platinum Gold Glove.

How much would be too much for Orioles' free agents such as Chris Davis?

Are you pulling for the Cubs to win the World Series, or would it make you even more frustrated about the current Orioles if the Cubs were to win it all in 2015 (as Back to the Future 2 predicted)?

In his only other postseason opportunity, Cubs ace Jake Arrieta wasn't even on the Orioles playoff roster.

Orioles lose in Texas, Dan Duquette loses dream job and Jake Arrieta pitches a no-hitter for his 17th win of the season.

Steve Clevenger, who was the designated hitter for the second consecutive game, hadn¿t homered since he was with the Chicago Cubs in 2012. That was shortly before he was sent to the Orioles, along with Scott Feldman, in the deal the shipped Jake Arrieta to Chicago.

This Orioles team is immersed in a month-long struggle to score runs. And a day after beating the Astros in Monday's series opener thanks to a pair of two-run homers, the Orioles bats continued to struggle in a 4-1 loss to Houston in front of an announced 21,541 at Camden Yards.

It's time to jump in the Hot Tub Time Machine and go back exactly one year for a little spring training perspective.

The Orioles saw first-hand on Friday afternoon how much former Orioles right-hander Jake Arrieta has progressed over the past year since joining the Chicago Cubs.

The Orioles will play against two familiar faces in their three-game series against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field this weekend. Cubs right-hander Jake Arrieta is scheduled to start Friday's series opener, and left-hander Tsuyoshi Wada is set to start Sunday.

With the Orioles currently atop the American League East, it might be tempting for the team to orchestrate a deal as the July 31 nonwaiver deadline approaches. But manager Buck Showalter said the club must tread carefully through the trade waters.

Dan Connolly has been talking to several baseball people outside of the Orioles organization for the past week or so about the club's trade possibilities as the July 31 nonwaiver deadline approaches. And everyone basically says the same thing: Dan Duquette will do something.

Bowie Baysox first baseman Christian Walker is still pacing the Eastern League's power categories as Bowie nears the All-Star Break.

At 35, Santana's playing future also may be in jeopardy

Orioles outfielder Nelson Cruz, who leads the major leagues in home runs and RBIs, left Sunday's game against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park after he was hit by a pitch in the left hand.

HOUSTON -- As poorly as the first two games of their four-game series here in Houston went, the Orioles can still salvage a series split with a win in this afternoon¿s finale.

Chris Tillman allowed just five hits and one walk while fanning three in the 25-year-old¿s first career shutout. He had never thrown more than 8 1/3 innings before in his big league career.

It didn't happen immediately, but Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen is slowly emerging this season as the pitcher who excelled for the club in its surprising playoff run.

As Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette sat in his office at the Ed Smith Stadium complex on a sunny afternoon earlier this month, overlooking a well-manicured cloverleaf of fields, a bitter winter seemed like an eternity ago in more ways than one.

Steve Clevenger, a Mount St. Joseph's graduate, grew up an Orioles fan, living just a stone's throw from Oriole Park at Camden Yards, in Pigtown. The trade that brought him to his hometown organization last summer gave him an opportunity few players have.

The Orioles shouldn't buy a lower-tier starter; put that money into a top pitcher or Kendrys Morales

One of the Orioles' top offseason free-agent targets, veteran right-hander Bronson Arroyo, has agreed to terms with the Arizona Diamondbacks, an industry source has confirmed.

Second baseman Jemile Weeks, who came to the Orioles from Oakland in December's Jim Johnson trade, and catcher Johnny Monell, acquired in a deal with the San Francisco Giants, will likely both have to show their flexibility.

Even after a winning season in 2013, the club heads into Saturday's FanFest lacking much of the giddiness that permeated last year.

Back in October, we asked how many of the Orioles' nine free agents were likely to return in 2014. With less than five weeks until spring training, it could end up that none of them return to Baltimore.

A new year is here and it's time to look forward to 2014. But first let's look back to the past year, when the Orioles had their share of successes and disappointments over 2013.