Orioles announce 2024 minor league and player development staffs (updated)
Steve Melewski
Orioles
The Orioles today announced their minor league coaching and player development staff assignments for the 2024 season. Three full-season managers return, but two move to different affiliates. Buck Britton will return for his third season as manager of the Triple-A Norfolk Tides. In 2023, he led the Tides to a record of 90-59 as they won the Internat
Orioles announce minor league coaching staffs and player development assignments for 2024
MASN Staff
Orioles
The Orioles today announced the club’s minor league coaching staffs and player development assignments for the 2024 season. The coaching staffs of Triple-A Norfolk, Double-A Bowie, High-A Aberdeen, and Single-A Delmarva are listed below, along with the Florida Complex League and Dominican Summer League Orioles. Managers BUCK BRITTON (Norfolk), CHRI
Can Nats expect improved defense this season?
Mark Zuckerman
Masn
We’ve spent much of the winter discussing the Nationals’ offensive strengths and weaknesses, asking if the changes they’ve made will make a positive difference this season. We looked at the pitching staff and wondered where the improvement will come from in 2024. But what about the Nats’ defense? Should it be improved from last season? Could it be
Prospects ranking season winds down
Steve Melewski
Orioles
As yet another top 100 prospects list was published recently by a major outlet and then yet another - by ESPN.com first and then The Athletic – once again Jackson Holliday of the Orioles was ranked as the No. 1 prospect in the sport. This is long since no surprise as he ended last season atop prospects lists and will begin this year No. 1 via Baseb
Holliday, Basallo, Mayo among O's spring invites (Hays arbitration note)
Steve Melewski
Orioles
The Orioles have a star-studded prospects list and the No. 1 farm in baseball, and their top three prospects are among their list of 20 spring training non-roster invitees announced today by the club. The Orioles report on Feb. 14 to Sarasota, Fla., with their first workout for pitchers and catchers set for Feb. 15 and with the first full-squad wor
Orioles announce non-roster invitees to spring training
MASN Staff
Orioles
The Orioles today announced that they have invited 20 non-roster players to Major League Spring Training in Sarasota, Fla. The list includes six right-handed pitchers, five left-handed pitchers, five catchers, three infielders, and one outfielder. As of today, a complete list of the Orioles’ 20 non-roster players for 2024 Spring Training is below:
Fans' guide to Nats spring training, Part 2: The area
Mark Zuckerman
Masn
Planning to come to spring training? Or just thinking you might like to come to spring training someday, but aren’t sure what to expect? You’re in luck, because we’re giving you all the advice you need right here. On Monday, we detailed everything you can expect at The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, both on workout days and game days. If you missed
Bobby Witt Jr. becomes latest young MLB star to sign big bucks extension
Steve Melewski
Orioles
The deal was announced, and the news was probably just minutes old when some around Birdland wondered whether their team might soon have interest in a similar arrangement. Monday afternoon, the Kansas City Royals, who ranked 24th in 2023 in MLB team payroll, a few steps ahead of the Orioles, locked up one of their bright young stars to a huge contr
Fondly remembering those two years I worked at the side of a baseball legend
Steve Melewski
Orioles
Somebody has to be No. 1. Some man or woman has to be the one person that has more college wins than any coach ever in any sport. That man was the 40-year legendary baseball coach of the Florida State Seminoles, Michael David Martin Sr. In his 40 years as head coach of the Seminoles under coach Martin, they went 40-for-40 in making the NCAA tourney
Fans' guide to Nats spring training, Part 1: The complex
Mark Zuckerman
Masn
Would you believe the Nationals are about to enter their eighth spring training in West Palm Beach? Doesn’t it feel like yesterday we were all still in Viera, complaining about long drives to road games and controlled brush fires off in the distance beyond Space Coast Stadium? The Nats made the move south to their new complex in 2017, and it’s been