Lara has work to do to get strikeout numbers back up
Bobby Blanco
Nationals
PROSPECT REVIEW: ANDRY LARA Age on opening day 2024: 21 How acquired: Signed as international free agent, July 2019 Ranking: No. 23 per MLB Pipeline, No. 18 per Baseball America MLB ETA: 2025* Projected by MLB Pipeline Signing bonus: $1.25 million 2023 levels: High-A Wilmington 2023 stats: 6-8, 4.58 ERA, 23 G, 23 GS, 98 ⅓ IP, 90 H, 58 R, 50 ER, 11
Appreciating Kyle Gibson's time as an Oriole
Steve Melewski
Orioles
We learned a few days ago that right-hander Kyle Gibson would not be back with the Orioles for the 2024 season. He signed a one-year free agent deal with the St. Louis Cardinals for $12 million and the team holds a club option for the 2025 season. For Gibson, this represents a homecoming of sorts. He lives near St. Louis and went to college at the
Reviewing three more unexpected developments in the Orioles' 2023 season
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Two days past Thanksgiving is too early to begin worrying whether the leftovers are edible. To check for discoloring, change in texture, hints that a trip to the emergency room is in your future. It isn’t too late to keep looking back on the 2023 Orioles season. Among the surprises and oddities, I’ve already mentioned how Austin Voth wasn’t impactf
Nats, Garrett start holiday season by giving back
Bobby Blanco
Nationals
The 2023 holiday season officially kicked off yesterday with Thanksgiving, but the Nationals got a head start to the season of giving earlier this week. This week Washington Nationals Philanthropies hosted Turkeypalooza, its now sixth annual food distribution event across the D.C. area. “Turkeypalooza is an annual event that Washington Nationals Ph
A few more surprises from the 2023 season
Steve Melewski
Orioles
A few weeks back, I wrote about three players that surprised us in a good way with their play during the 2023 season. It was easy to note Ryan O'Hearn and Yennier Cano, both were huge surprises and so big for the 2023 Birds. I added Kyle Bradish and not that we didn't think he could be a good pitcher. But maybe not that good. But he was and he woun
Looking back at Orioles' contract tender decisions and signings for 2024
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Winning the American League East and reaching the Division Series, where they were swept by the Rangers, earned the Orioles a playoff share of $43,942. A decent haul but a pittance compared to the $506,263 earned by the Rangers for winning the World Series. The Diamondbacks won the National League pennant and were rewarded with $313,634. The genera
O's fans can be thankful for a team that got to the top of the AL East
Steve Melewski
Orioles
Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers and fans of this blog today and I hope everyone has a great time with family and friends. Hope everything on your plate is hot and delicious. But the topic here is always baseball and the Orioles and O’s fans have a lot to be thankful for this year. How about a playoff team, 101 wins and an AL East championship.
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Reasons for Nats fans to be thankful in 2023
Bobby Blanco
Nationals
Happy Thanksgiving, Nationals fans! To celebrate the holiday, I’m going to take a break from my usual prospect reviews (there are only seven left!) and look back on the 2023 year for reasons the Nats and you should be thankful. Is a 71-91 season reason to celebrate? Of course not. But the organization did make some significant strides in this cruci
Some Orioles-related reasons to be thankful
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
A kind world would make carving reminiscent of turkeys on the Thanksgiving table rather than Nathan Eovaldi facing the Orioles in the Division Series. But gentle isn’t always an option. Let’s keep it brief today. Like saying grace. Expressing your gratitude without letting the gravy get cold and develop that skin on the surface. Orioles fans should
After joining Nats at deadline, Herz flashed impressive stuff
Bobby Blanco
Nationals
PROSPECT REVIEW: DJ HERZ Age on opening day 2024: 23 How acquired: Traded with Kevin Made from Cubs for Jeimer Candelario and cash in July 2023; originally drafted in eighth round by Cubs in 2019 from Terry Sanford High School in Fayetteville, N.C. Ranking: No. 16 per MLB Pipeline, No. 25 per Baseball America MLB ETA: 2024* Projected by MLB Pipelin