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It's been busy during prospect ranking season

It's been busy during prospect ranking season
During a lockout, we can't say it's baseball season yet. Hopefully, sooner than later. But we can say it is prospect ranking season. Multiple outlets have been coming out with player and team rankings. Today let's review what we have seen so far. Six Orioles were in the ESPN top 100: 1 - Adley Rutschman 8 - Grayson Rodriguez 74 - Colton Cowser 94 - DL Hall 96 - Gunnar Henderson 98 - Coby Mayo Five Orioles were in the Baseball America top 100: 1 - Rutschman 6 - Rodriguez 52 - Hall 57 -...
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Steve Melewski

O's new Double-A skipper on winning, chemistry, player development and more

O's new Double-A skipper on winning, chemistry, player development and more
When it comes to the improved farm system for the Orioles - one ranked No. 1 in organizational rankings by MLBPipeline.com and No. 4 via Baseball America - it can seem the club leaves no stone unturned. Whether it is data and analytics and the latest technology, the move to place five coaches with each affiliate, improved nutrition and even gains in areas like mental skills, the Orioles seem to be doing right by their young talent. They want to give them every chance to succeed. Seeing the...
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Steve Melewski

Farm system on the move: O's get No. 5 ranking

Farm system on the move: O's get No. 5 ranking
In January, it was a nice moment and recognition for the Orioles player development operation when it achieved its highest ranking ever in Baseball America's organizational rankings. They came in at No. 7 among all 30 clubs. On Thursday, MLBPipeline.com released its latest top 10 and the Orioles came in at No. 5. Yep, they keep movin' on up. The goal, set by executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias in his first day on the job, was to build an elite talent pipeline. These...
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Mark Zuckerman

Nationals still being held out of Sunday night spotlight

Nationals still being held out of Sunday night spotlight
If you missed it yesterday, ESPN announced its "Sunday Night Baseball" schedule for most of the first half of the 2017 season. It includes one game involving the Nationals: April 23 against the Mets at Citi Field. And that's the only game involving the Nationals so far on ESPN's slate. That could change, of course, because only 12 of the 26 scheduled Sunday night tilts have been announced at this point. But it does continue a surprising trend that has left the Nats very much on the outside...
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Pete Kerzel

An early look at where the Nationals rank heading into 2017

An early look at where the Nationals rank heading into 2017
Though the baseball offseason is only two days old, it's a perfect time to start thinking ahead to the 2017 campaign. ESPN.com is doing just that, and yesterday released its first power rankings for the 2017 season. The Nationals are ranked third, behind the World Series champion Cubs and the American League East champion Red Sox. Sweet Spot blogger David Schoenfield acknowledges that the Nats have some questions to answer - right-hander Stephen Strasburg's flexor mass injury, first baseman...
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Bobby Blanco

Bryce Harper to be featured granting local wish in "My Wish" series

Bryce Harper to be featured granting local wish in "My Wish" series
It's that time of year again to break out the box of tissues: ESPN's annual "My Wish" series returns this week and will feature Nationals right fielder and reigning National League MVP Bryce Harper granting the wish of a local fan battling a serious illness. On its 10th anniversary, the "My Wish" series on "SportsCenter" will showcase the power of sports wishes that the Make-A-Wish foundation grants. Tomorrow night's 6 p.m. edition of "SportsCenter" will highlight 16-year-old...
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Byron Kerr

Salt River wins first game, Nats rank high in ESPN fan voting

Salt River wins first game, Nats rank high in ESPN fan voting
Salt River beat Scottsdale 5-3 in its Arizona Fall League opener Tuesday night. The Rafters pitching was the story here, allowing the Scorpions only five hits in their first game in AFL play. Chris Bostick went 0-for-4, but scored a run thanks in part to his two stolen bases. Dakota Bacus came on in relief and pitched a scoreless frame late in the game, striking out two. Former Nationals prospect Danny Rosenbaum went 1 1/3 innings for Scottsdale, allowing two hits, no runs, one walk and struck...
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Steve Melewski

Will the O's miss Cruz's 40 homers? (plus a take on Connaughton)

Will the O's miss Cruz's 40 homers? (plus a take on Connaughton)
One concern that has come up repeatedly about the Orioles for this year is how will they make up the 40 homers lost when Nelson Cruz signed with Seattle. My answer is this: Don't worry about the Orioles hitting homers. They do that as well as any team in the majors. Over the last three years, there are seven instances of a team having a 200-homer year. The Orioles have hit 200 or more three times in three years, while the rest of Major League Baseball has combined for four such instances, with...
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Josh Land

A conversation with John Kruk on the Nationals

A conversation with John Kruk on the Nationals
VIERA, Fla. - ESPN's tour bus rolled into Viera on Sunday to preview the Nationals during a special midday presentation of "SportsCenter." Buster Olney and John Kruk of "Baseball Tonight" and anchor Bram Weinstein interviewed several Nats players, including Bryce Harper and Max Scherzer, throughout the morning. Afterward, I had a chance to sit down with Kruk on the bus for a conversation about the Nats and the upcoming season. Kruk, of course, played in the majors for 10 seasons as a first...
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Dan Kolko

Nats rank ninth in ESPN's list of top farm systems

Nats rank ninth in ESPN's list of top farm systems
The Nationals might have graduated a number of their top prospects to the major leagues in recent years (see: Stephen Strasburg, Bryce Harper, Anthony Rendon), but they still have one of the more talented minor league systems in baseball, according to one analyst. ESPN.com's Keith Law ranks the Nats ninth in his list of the top farm systems, and places six Nats minor leaguers on his list of the top 100 prospects in baseball entering the 2015 season. Because the Nats have seen a number of their...
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Pete Kerzel

Livan Hernandez's story chronicled in ESPN's "Brothers in Exile" on Nov. 4

Livan Hernandez's story chronicled in ESPN's "Brothers in Exile" on Nov. 4
Come Tuesday night, when you're tired of channel surfing to find something - anything - other than election results, you can tune to ESPN for a civics and history lesson with a Nationals twist. As part of its "30 for 30" series, ESPN will present "Brothers in Exile," which chronicles the path that led two half-brothers - ex-National Livan Hernandez and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez - to defect from their native Cuba for a chance to play baseball in the major leagues. The siblings, both...
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Steve Melewski

ESPN analysts talk up the Orioles

ESPN analysts talk up the Orioles
If there is one thing some Orioles fans seem to crave, it is respect from national analysts. For those of you that fit into that category, you got what you want earlier this week on ESPN's "Baseball Tonight," when the analysts spent several minutes talking up the Orioles and their postseason chances. Jayson Stark was first. "All I hear is they can't win the World Series, they can't do this or that. They've got a plus-64 run differential since the start of August," Stark said. "This is...
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Pete Kerzel

Harper's star turn in new ESPN spot

Harper's star turn in new ESPN spot
Do you cry at the end of "Field of Dreams"? Yeah, me, too. When Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, and his dad have a catch in that Iowa cornfield, it gets to me. Every. Damn. Time. That film and that reaction are the focuses of a new "This is SportsCenter" spot on ESPN, starring Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper - as you've never seen him before. No spoiler here, no description of his interaction with ESPN anchors Hannah Storm, John Anderson and Bram Weinstein. The spot is entitled...
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Pete Kerzel

Hide your Lean Cuisines from Stephen Strasburg

Hide your Lean Cuisines from Stephen Strasburg
Why should Bryce Harper have all the fun? ESPN today unveiled a new "This is SportsCenter" commercial featuring Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg. Like most of the network's spots, it has a humorous bent, placing usually stoic Strasburg in the ESPN cafeteria while anchor Bram Weinstein rifles through the refrigerator searching for his Lean Cuisine. What happened to Weinstein's glazed turkey tenderloins (words I never thought I would type when I got into this crazy business back in the...
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Steve Melewski

ESPN's Karl Ravech on the Orioles, AL East and more

ESPN's Karl Ravech on the Orioles, AL East and more
The Orioles are looking to go over the .500 mark for the second time this season tonight. If they win at Boston they'll move to 8-7 on the year and over .500 for the first time since winning opening day. The team has seven games remaining in a stretch of playing 19 of its 22 games against American League East opponents to start the year. The O's are 6-5 so far in AL East games. The Orioles have done well at Fenway Park the last two seasons, going a combined 12-6 and they are 15-7 in their...
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ESPN's Olney says the time is now for O's to sign Machado to a 10-year contract

ESPN's Olney says the time is now for O's to sign Machado to a 10-year contract
Even though he doesn't have even a full year's worth of service time yet and has played just 133 career games with the club, ESPN's Buster Olney said the time is now for the Orioles to sign Manny Machado to a long-term, megabucks contract. "That is going to be kind of a turning point in the franchise's history because he clearly is that kind of player," Olney said this week in an interview with MASNsports.com. A former O's beat writer for The Baltimore Sun, Olney and the ESPN broadcast...
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Josh Land

"Bryce Begins" to air on ESPN on Tuesday, April 30

"Bryce Begins" to air on ESPN on Tuesday, April 30
What were you doing when you were 19? Chances are you weren't roaming the outfields of major league ballparks like Bryce Harper was. Harper, the young Nationals phenom, skyrocketed to superstardom during his rookie season. His accomplishments include earning a trip to the All-Star Game and winning the 2012 National League Rookie of the Year Award. His play helped the Nats win the NL East for the first time since the franchise returned to Washington D.C., in 2005. ESPN will air a one-hour...
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Steve Melewski

AL East turned upside down in this prediction

AL East turned upside down in this prediction
Maybe you thought you'd never see the day when a prominent national baseball writer would not only pick the Orioles to win the American League East, but at the same time would pick New York to finish last. Well, it happened this week and almost happened twice. ESPN's Buster Olney picks the Orioles first and the Yankees last in the AL East. His ESPN colleague, Jayson Stark, picked the Yankees last, as well, but has the Orioles finishing in second place. Olney ranks them in order as...
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ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball" crew throws some praise O's way

ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball" crew throws some praise O's way
If there is one thing that Orioles fans seem to get fired up about, it is predictions about their team from national writers and analysts. Especially when those predictions are positive. The last two days, ESPN's writers and broadcasters have been heaping some praise on this team. In a podcast yesterday, Buster Olney picked the Orioles to win the American League East and Jayson Stark predicted a second-place finish. Today, on a media conference call, ESPN's three "Sunday Night Baseball"...
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Keith Law farm system rankings: Orioles are 17th

Keith Law farm system rankings: Orioles are 17th
Here is a mild surprise to me: Keith Law of ESPN.com rates the Orioles' farm system 17th out of 30 in baseball. Frankly, with all the criticism the Orioles' farm system has been getting, I would have expected a ranking a little lower, maybe in the 20-25 range. The Orioles, according to Law's ranking, which cannot be linked as premium content, still rank fourth among American League East teams. 2nd - Tampa Bay 3rd - Toronto 10th - New York 17th - Orioles 18th - Boston I was shocked to see...
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