Nationals invite top prospects to big league camp
MASN Staff
Nationals
Highlighted by several of the organization’s top prospects, the Washington Nationals announced the following invitations to 2024 Major League Spring Training on Tuesday. Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo made the announcement. Top prospects including outfielders Dylan Crews, Robert Hassell III and James Wood,
Akin on O's going from losing to winning and a coach talks about Holliday
Steve Melewski
Orioles
The year that the Orioles drafted lefty Keegan Akin out of Western Michigan University, in 2016, they made the playoffs before their season ended in the American League Wild Card Game in Toronto. A couple of years later, Akin was part of an O’s organization trending the wrong way, one that had seasons of 115, 108 and 110 losses. But within all that
Gallo's goal: Raise batting average without sacrificing power
Mark Zuckerman
Masn
Ask Joey Gallo what stats matter most to him, and he’ll tell you he pays attention to on-base percentage, OPS and isolated power. He’ll also tell you what he doesn’t pay attention to. “I don’t look at average,” he said. “Because I want to throw up if I do.” Don’t worry about tiptoeing around the subject of batting average with Gallo. Whatever you t
How Coulombe and Webb intend to improve, Mullins itching to have healthy season
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Danny Coulombe and Jacob Webb, two Orioles relievers who project to make the Opening Day roster but with different odds, have slightly dissimilar approaches in the offseason to attacking their perceived weaknesses. Both pitchers are doing less mechanical tweaking and more mental adjusting, but with goals that don’t exactly match up. Coulombe appear
Orioles, Coulombe reach terms
MASN Staff
Orioles
The Orioles have made the following roster move: Agreed to terms with LHP Danny Coulombe on a one-year contract for the 2024 season with a club option for 2025, avoiding arbitration.
Do O's need more homers? Coaches weigh in, plus other Caravan notes
Steve Melewski
Orioles
When it comes to evaluating any major league offense, we could look at a variety of stats – advanced and otherwise – but runs scored is a pretty good place to start. The 2023 O's produced just the eighth season scoring 800 or more runs in 70 seasons of Orioles baseball. The team scored 807 runs – seventh-most in club history – and ranked fourth in
On Gallo's signing, Pineda's DFA and the new jerseys
Mark Zuckerman
Masn
A smorgasbord of Nationals thoughts on this Monday morning as Detroit Lions fans around the world cope with coming oh-so-close to their first Super Bowl appearance and the rest of us cope with another Chiefs-49ers matchup … * The Joey Gallo signing became official over the weekend after the 30-year-old slugger passed his physical. Gallo is now a me
Ortiz and Mayo ignore trade talk, Mountcastle and McCann happy with health (Coulombe update)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Joey Ortiz possesses the skills to knock down a bad-hop grounder and block out trade noise. The number of gifted young Orioles infielders has left Ortiz with trade chip status bestowed upon him. Not from people inside the organization as much as outside observers who are trying to solve the riddle of how to create space. MLB Pipeline ranks Ortiz as
Zimmermann and Akin say they are healthy and a full go for spring
Steve Melewski
Orioles
On the final day of Birdland Caravan and at the final event of the three-day run, reporters caught up with four pitchers who will look to break north with the Orioles in April by winning roster spots in spring training. That group included lefties Bruce Zimmermann, Keegan Akin and Nick Vespi, and right-hander Mike Baumann. All four spent some, or i
With Gallo signing, Nats lineup starting to take shape
Bobby Blanco
Nationals
It was a tricky task just days ago: For this week’s “The Hot Stove Show” on MASN All Access, I was struggling to put together a potential Opening Day starting defensive lineup graphic with the Nationals roster as it stood at the time. Some positions were obvious: Keibert Ruiz was the starting catcher, CJ Abrams at shortstop and Lane Thomas in right