Bogar hired to manage Diamondbacks' Double-A club
Mark Zuckerman
Masn
Tim Bogar, let go by the Nationals at season’s end, won’t be returning to the major leagues this year but will get a chance to manage professionally again. Bogar was named manager of the Amarillo Sod Poodles, the Diamondbacks’ Double-A affiliate, on Monday. The longtime Nats coach under Davey Martinez will have the opportunity to re-establish himse
O's could face challenges to match their run output from the 2023 season
Steve Melewski
Orioles
Through the 2023 year, the Orioles have now played 70 seasons since moving to Baltimore in 1954. In just eight of those seasons, or 11.4 percent of them, have the Birds scored 800 or more runs. We didn’t know that when the 2004 team scored 842 runs – third-most in club history – that it would not be the 2023 season until another O’s club would top
Nats leading the way in Washington rebuilds
Bobby Blanco
Nationals
It’s a tough time to be a Washington, D.C. sports fan, as my colleague Mark Zuckerman pointed out yesterday. If you look around at the standings across the various sports leagues, Washington teams don’t sit very high. The Nationals, of course, just finished fifth in the National League East for the fourth consecutive season following their 2019 Wor
More thoughts on Birdland Caravan lineup
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Now that we know the roster for the upcoming Birdland Caravan, we can formulate a plan for interaction and, if you’re in the media, to conduct interviews. I wrote last month that I hoped for a Félix Bautista sighting, but he isn’t on the list. We’ll just assume he’s feeling good and his recovery is going well after Tommy John surgery. And, of cours
More information on this month's Birdland Caravan
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The Orioles have announced participants and shared details for their three-day Birdland Caravan later this month. Current Orioles players and coaches participating in select events include, alphabetically, executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias, manager Brandon Hyde, coaches Cody Asche, Matt Borgschulte, Ryan Fuller, Fredi González, Ry
Orioles Announce Details for 2024 Birdland Caravan
MASN Staff
Masn
The Orioles today announced the return of the club’s ‘Birdland Caravan,’ a three-day winter tour, that will take place from Thursday, January 25, through Saturday, January 27, at multiple locations throughout the region. The weekend-long celebration will include meet and greet photo opportunities, community projects, fan rallies, and happy hours.  
Why this is an important year for the Nationals
Mark Zuckerman
Masn
The 2024 season, as has been mentioned before, is a big one for the Nationals. After tearing down the last vestiges of a championship roster in 2021 and 2022, then starting to see a new group of young players come together in 2023, there is legitimate reason for optimism heading into the new year. There’s another reason why this upcoming season is
The decision to trade prospects is always challenging
Steve Melewski
Orioles
The mood around Birdland – at least on this blog – got a bit tense Sunday in discussions about a possible trade for Chicago White Sox right-hander Dylan Cease. It is clear that some fans are very, very nervous about trading prospects. They are waiting and watching to see what executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias will do. Would he
This, that and the other
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Scanning social media baseball posts on the former Twitter, as it’s now called, can be informative and enlightening. Also, comical and annoying. The emotions have more range than Paul Blair in center field. Sometimes, you’ll stumble upon things that make you go “hmmmm.” And then you're at risk of overthinking it. The Orioles are reported to have in
Most significant stories of 2023 on the farm
Bobby Blanco
Nationals
As the first week of the new year comes to a close, we’ve done our fair share of looking back at the Nationals’ 2023 season and ahead to the 2024 campaign. At the major league level. During this week’s “The Hot Stove Show” on MASN All Access (which you can watch here), Brendan Mortensen and I talked a lot about the Nats’ top prospects in the minor