Checking back on Orioles 2022 roster
Checking back on Orioles 2022 roster
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Three years ago, the staff at Baseball America took a shot at projecting the Orioles lineup, rotation and closer for the 2022 season. Let's just say the publication didn't bat 1.000. OK, let's say more. It's virtually impossible to hit on any team because of the variables that blow up predictions. The lists ran in October, after the Orioles began dismantling the team over the summer. The teardown started with the trades of Manny Machado, Zack Britton, Jonathan Schoop, Brad Brach, Kevin...
Finnegan's injury is minor, Nats hope; Hudson begins throwing
Finnegan's injury is minor, Nats hope; Hudson begins throwing
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
Just as he was beginning to assert himself into a more prominent role in a bullpen that has needed more guys to step up, Kyle Finnegan has now landed on the 10-day injured list with a strained left hamstring. Finnegan, who was removed from the roster this afternoon as the counter-transaction to Max Scherzer's activation off the IL, hurt himself while throwing the final pitch of a quick (and very effective) relief appearance Sunday against the Mets. Summoned out of the bullpen to replace a...
Orioles DFA Mac Sceroler and select Mickey Jannis' contract
Orioles DFA Mac Sceroler and select Mickey Jannis' contract
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The Orioles have cut ties with Rule 5 pitcher Mac Sceroler. The club designated Sceroler for assignment this afternoon and selected the contract of knuckleballer Mickey Jannis from Triple-A Norfolk. Jannis is wearing No. 76, a first in team history, and waiting to make his major league debut. Sceroler, the nephew of former Orioles pitcher and current MASN analyst Ben McDonald, made five appearances and allowed 12 earned runs (15 total) and 15 hits in 7 2/3 innings. He walked seven batters,...
Orioles and Astros lineups
Orioles and Astros lineups
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Anthony Santander is out of the lineup again tonight as the Orioles continue their series against the Astros at Camden Yards. Santander is slowed by a sore left ankle. He stayed on the bench last night. Austin Hays is in left field and DJ Stewart is in right again tonight. Ryan Mountcastle is playing first base and Trey Mancini is the designated hitter. Pat Valaika is the second baseman and Pedro Severino gets another start behind the plate. Jorge López is 2-8 with a 5.95 ERA and 1.492 WHIP...
Nationals Philanthropies to honor Chef José Andrés at Home Plate Celebration event
Nationals Philanthropies to honor Chef José Andrés at Home Plate Celebration event
Pete Kerzel
Nationals
Washington Nationals Philanthropies, the official charitable arm of the Washington Nationals, announced today plans to hold a signature fundraising event this fall in lieu of its traditional gala. The Nationals Home Plate Celebration, to be held on September 27 at Nationals Park, will uniquely showcase the cornerstone elements of the organization's holistic food access program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the team is on the road, the Home Plate Celebration event invites...
Game 70 lineups: Nats at Phillies
Game 70 lineups: Nats at Phillies
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
An 8-3 homestand, capped with a strong and often thrilling weekend against the Mets, was a great first step for the Nationals to get themselves back into the mix in the National League East. A good road trip this week against two more division opponents would go a long way toward making this surge truly legitimate. It begins tonight in Philadelphia in the opener of a quick, two-game series against the Phillies. And it begins with the ace back on the mound. Yes, as he promised over the weekend,...
Nationals reinstate Max Scherzer
Nationals reinstate Max Scherzer
Pete Kerzel
Nationals
The Washington Nationals reinstated right-handed pitcher Max Scherzer from the 10-day Injured List and placed right-handed pitcher Kyle Finnegan on the 10-day Injured List (retroactive to June 21) with a left hamstring strain on Tuesday. Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo made the announcement. Scherzer, 36, will start Tuesday night's series opener against the Philadelphia Phillies. His last full start came on June 4 against the Phillies before being...
No pitcher suspensions on night one, plus other notes
No pitcher suspensions on night one, plus other notes
Steve Melewski
Orioles
On the first night of Major League Baseball's new "sticky stuff" rules, with baseball pledging to enforce the rules about pitchers using foreign substances and threatening transgressors with ejections and suspensions, there were no offenders reported that I could tell. As of around midnight, I had not seen any reports from any games of someone ejected. Didn't we hear that most of the pitchers were bending the rules or, to say it another way, cheating? Many suggested they were, but last...
Orioles avoid no-hitter but not a 10-2 loss (updated)
Orioles avoid no-hitter but not a 10-2 loss (updated)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The only stickiness for Keegan Akin tonight was a third-inning jam. A worse mess for the Orioles was their inability to get a hit until the eighth inning. Three Astros pitchers beginning with Jake Odorizzi combined for only a walk and hit batter before Maikel Franco's two-run homer off reliever Brandon Bielak in the Orioles' 10-2 loss before an announced crowd of 7,414, a potential eighth no-hitter against them and second at Camden Yards sailing into the bullpen. Bielak nailed Austin Hays on...
Unexpected delays couldn't derail Fedde's breakthrough
Unexpected delays couldn't derail Fedde's breakthrough
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
Erick Fedde's phone rang around midnight, a few hours following the Nationals' May 18 loss in Chicago. He was immediately asked where he was (his hotel room) and instructed not to leave. "Wait, what are you talking about?" the right-hander finally asked. At which point he was told the news: "You have COVID." "I was like, it has to be a false positive," Fedde said Sunday during a one-on-one interview outside the dugout at Nationals Park. "Unfortunately, it wasn't. I guess shock is...