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MLB scraps plans to open 2020 season in Asia, hopes to add games in Europe

LaMonte Wade Jr., an Owings Mills native who played at St. Paul’s, was called up to the Minnesota Twins from Triple-A Rochester on Thursday.

After a half-century of disappointment, even Mother Nature didn't dare spoil the celebration of St. Louis' first-ever Stanley Cup championship.

With $8.5 million in international bonus pool slots for the 2018-19 period, the Orioles have used nearly all of it under new GM Mike Elias and Koby Perez.

By Jon Meoli

Jun 13, 2019

Senior shortstop Jose Torres, a four-year starter, was the 733rd pick in the 24th round of the Major League Baseball draft.

By Glenn Graham

Jun 5, 2019

Shortly after 7 p.m. Monday, Mike Elias will make the selection that will rank among the most important decisions in his tenure as Orioles GM.

By Jon Meoli

Jun 3, 2019

The Orioles' recent drafts have stocked the franchise with some promising players who fit Mike Elias' draft-and-development formula.

By Jon Meoli

May 31, 2019

Examining Orioles GM Mike Elias' draft picks with the Houston Astros.

By Jon Meoli

May 30, 2019

Remember when Brady Anderson, Brooks Robinson and Howdy Myers were on the sports pages?

By Mike Klingaman

Apr 7, 2019

With the Orioles' 2019 season beginning with Thursday's Opening Day game against the Yankees, here's a look at what fans need to know for the upcoming season.

By Nathan Ruiz

Mar 28, 2019

The Orioles could add talent through the waiver process.

By Jon Meoli

Mar 27, 2019

The Orioles looked to recent champions in Houston and Chicago to assemble the trio of general manager Mike Elias, manager Brandon Hyde and assistant general manager for analytics Sig Mejdal to take the team in a new direction

By Jon Meoli

Mar 20, 2019

A four-time All-Star with the Orioles from 2009 to 2016, Matt Wieters will compete with Francisco Pena for the backup catching job in St. Louis.

On the 'Analytics in Baseball Operations' panel Saturday at Orioles FanFest, assistant general manager Sig Mejdal and senior director of international scouting Koby Pérez outlined how the analytics that will drive the Orioles' rebuild can produce results on the field.

By Jon Meoli

Feb 1, 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

New Orioles senior director of international scouting Koby Perez sees plenty of ways for the Orioles to catch up in Latin America, an area they've lagged in for the entire decade.

By Jon Meoli

Jan 3, 2019

The Orioles named Koby Perez their senior director of international scouting Wednesday, adding a head to a department new general manager Mike Elias hopes will be an area of growth for the Orioles.

By Jon Meoli

Jan 2, 2019

Jeffrey Kalkstein, a chiropractor in the Towson area for 30 years and currently operating a business with his sons Warren and Blake, has been the Orioles' chiropractor for the last 11 years.

By Katherine Fominykh

Dec 31, 2018

Aside from the Astros, the only other team to execute a similar rebuilt recently is the Chicago Cubs, and new Orioles manager Brandon Hyde spearheaded their player development operation early before joining the major league coaching staff through a rebuild that netted the 2016 World Series title.

By Jon Meoli

Dec 19, 2018

The Orioles' main roster-oriented activity at this week's winter meetings will likely be Thursday's Rule 5 draft. Here's who they might take.

By Jon Meoli

Dec 13, 2018

The Orioles claimed infielder Rio Ruiz, a one-time Houston Astros farmhand, off waivers from the Atlanta Braves on Monday as baseball's winter meetings began in Las Vegas.

By Jon Meoli

Dec 10, 2018

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

Comparing the Paul Goldschmidt trade to what the Orioles may have gotten for Manny Machado if they had dealt him last winter instead of waiting until the All-Star break.

By Jon Meoli

Dec 6, 2018

Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias said on the 105.7 The Fan Orioles Hot Stove show that the club had done background on dozens of managerial candidates and was past phase one of the search to replace Buck Showalter.

By Jon Meoli

Nov 29, 2018

The Maryland Jockey Club will reward generous-minded fans as part of its 'Give a Gift, Get a Gift' program Saturday at Laurel Park. Everyone that drops off a

The Orioles signed right-hander Josh Lucas, a former draftee of Mike Elias from his time with the St. Louis Cardinals, to a minor league contact.

By Jon Meoli

Nov 28, 2018

The Orioles announced Wednesday morning that Sig Mejdal will be the team’s assistant general manager, analytics.

By Jon Meoli

Nov 21, 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

Mike Elias has impressed his mentors and colleagues during his rapid rise from Yale to his new job as executive vice president of the Orioles.

By Jon Meoli

Nov 17, 2018

New Orioles baseball operations chief will be coming from a new direction after helping build the Houston Astros into a World Series team, but he'll need several years to transform the O's into a 21st century operation.

By Peter Schmuck

Nov 16, 2018

The Houston Astros rebuild that Mike Elias was a part of worked partly because of the continuity in personnel their general manager, Jeff Luhnow, brought from the Cardinals. Who from Houston could help replicate that for Elias in Baltimore?

By Jon Meoli

Nov 16, 2018

Mike Elias, who played a major role in the Houston Astros’ rebuild that culminated in a 2017 World Series title, will get the chance to replicate that as the Orioles’ next general manager.

By Jon Meoli

Nov 16, 2018

Who is Mike Elias? Here's some background on the Astros assistant general manager's path through baseball.

By Jon Meoli

Nov 14, 2018

Resetting the Orioles' known executive candidates with the possibility that they could make a decision on a replacement for executive vice president Dan Duquette this week.

By Jon Meoli

Nov 12, 2018

The Orioles re-signed Corban Joseph and Gabriel Ynoa to minor league contracts, while Jace Peterson and Sean Gilmartin elected free agency.

By Jon Meoli

Nov 1, 2018

With the continuing and unresolved issue of National Football League players kneeling (or remaining in the locker room) during the playing of the National Anthem before games, one is reminded of two incidents involving the anthem: Both occurred 50 years ago this month.

A week of stellar pitching performances has the 1983 Orioles three wins away from the world championship.

By Mike Klingaman

Oct 7, 2018

The Orioles were bad this year, but not the worst ever.

Considering the type of candidates the Orioles went after in 2011 — young, analytics-minded executives who have vast experience in the baseball world — here are a handful of people who fit that mold now.

By Jon Meoli

Oct 4, 2018

Sean Gilmartin, Dillon Tate and John Means are possibilities to help the Orioles' injury-riddled starting rotation.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Sep 16, 2018

The Orioles and New York Yankees opened a four-game series on Friday night at Oriole Park, with the Yankees coming from behind for a 7-5 win in 10 innings.

By Peter Schmuck

Aug 24, 2018

The Orioles might have avoided a real headache in a year full of them by missing out on Jason Vargas, and despite all that’s gone badly for them this season, it looks like Andrew Cashner was the right pitcher to stabilize their rotation.

By Jon Meoli

Aug 14, 2018

Before Orioles reliever Sean Gilmartin made his team debut against the Boston Red Sox, he found himself tangled in Uber woes.

By Katherine Fominykh

Aug 11, 2018

In the wake of Friday night's bullpen-taxing loss to the Red Sox, the Orioles have called up left-handed pitcher Sean Gilmartin to bolster the bullpen for Saturday's doubleheader.

By Peter Schmuck

Aug 11, 2018

For the first time since 1950, two former Maryland baseball players are sharing a major league clubhouse.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Aug 9, 2018

Darren O'Day was traded to the Braves on Tuesday, a move teammate Caleb Joseph was shocked by.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Aug 1, 2018

Evaluating the five prospects — Yusniel Díaz, Dean Kremer, Rylan Bannon, Zach Pop, and Breyvic Valera — the Orioles acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers for All-Star shortstop Manny Machado.

By Jon Meoli

Jul 18, 2018

Orioles third baseman Tim Beckham has been up and down since his return from core muscle surgery.

By Jon Meoli

Jul 13, 2018

The UMBC Retrievers threw their (puppy) weight towards the St. Louis Cardinals' Matt Carpenter for the MLB All-Star Game Final Vote.

By Katherine Fominykh

Jul 10, 2018

Manny Machado trade rumors are swirling, but the Orioles are prepared to wait until the nonwaiver trade deadline if they don't get an offer that would make an expedited trade worthwhile.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Jul 6, 2018