With change occurring elsewhere, Nats remain stable for now

Stability in baseball is a rare thing. It’s rare in the clubhouse. It’s rare in the manager’s office. And it’s certainly rare in the front office, where heads of baseball operations routinely find themselves under pressure to create success and then sustain it. When Mike Rizzo took over as general manager in 2009, the Nationals had no stability. Th
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A few notes on Rutschman, Rodriguez and free agent pitchers

Today taking another look today at a few stories we discussed in this space recently. Such as this one about catcher Adley Rutschman. The last Oriole to win the American League Rookie of the Year award was Gregg Olson in 1989. Earlier this week Rutschman was a finalist for the AL ROY, but Seattle's Julio Rodríguez took home the hardware. The rookie
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Denoyer on making the 40-man roster and enjoying the journey

The Orioles had four prospects they intended to place on the 40-man roster by Tuesday’s deadline, and an undrafted pitcher trending upward who couldn’t be denied. Wasn’t worth the risk of losing him. Noah Denoyer probably felt like the fifth of five players protected in the Rule 5 draft behind pitchers Grayson Rodriguez, Drew Rom and Seth Johnson,

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After 40-man add, Drew Rom is searching for additional velocity

If it feels like he’s been in the Orioles organization for a while, he has. But lefty Drew Rom, added to the 40-man roster this week, for now is still just 22. He turns 23 Dec. 15 and will head to spring training next February in Sarasota, knowing it’s the season when he might make his major league debut. During a Zoom call this week he told report
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Could Nationals add two big bats to lineup now?

On a certain level, the Nationals’ decision Friday night not to tender a contract to Luke Voit made sense. They never coveted the 31-year-old in the first place. He was simply a player added to last summer’s haul of prospects in the Juan Soto-Josh Bell deal with the Padres because the Nats needed one actual big leaguer who could finish out the seas
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Taking another look at Orioles' offseason interests
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The business conducted by the Orioles can be brought out into the open, whether from the outset or at its conclusion, or held behind closed warehouse doors. The public finds out about decisions made on the 40-man roster and in arbitration talks without knowing all of the mechanisms. Negotiations with free agents and executives usually are kept priv
Nationals non-tender Voit, Fedde, Romero before deadline
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
The Nationals parted ways with Luke Voit, Erick Fedde and Tommy Romero this evening, electing not to tender contracts to one of the players they acquired in this summer’s blockbuster trade with the Padres and their 2014 first-round pick after underwhelming seasons. The club did tender contracts before tonight’s 8 p.m. deadline to their seven other
Orioles tender contracts to all arbitration-eligible players
MASN Staff
Masn
The Orioles made the following roster moves: Tendered 2023 contracts to OF Austin Hays, SS Jorge Mateo, OF Cedric Mullins, OF Anthony Santander, RHP Dillon Tate, and RHP Austin Voth, as well as all pre-arbitration 40-man players.
Checking in on more free agent pitching
Steve Melewski
Orioles
With the Orioles in the market for starting pitching and possibly poised to add one or more hurlers from the free agent ranks, today we’ll take a look at two more possibilities. To be clear, these are just some stats and notes on these pitchers and not my speculation - or anyone’s, for that matter - in terms of the Orioles' interest level in these
Time has come for decisions on Voit, Fedde, others
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
It’s another deadline day in the baseball world. Earlier this week, it was the deadline to add players to the 40-man roster and protect them from being lost in the Rule 5 draft. Today it’s the deadline to tender contracts to all players who are eligible for salary arbitration. What that means: Any player with at least three years but fewer than six
Orioles must address six arbitration-eligible players by tonight's deadline (updated)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The Orioles have reached another deadline tonight, this one a few weeks earlier than the norm. They must tender contracts to their six arbitration-eligible players or risk going to hearings. This is a day-long exercise for some media. Reporting the agreements, maybe the terms. Update after update, or just one lump summary. The perceived importance
Ortiz lands on Orioles 40-man roster as more than a defensive shortstop (note added)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Joey Ortiz never wanted the defense-first label pinned to him. The pride that he took in his glove work was offset by the notion that his bat might be a liability. That teams would have to settle for a light-hitting shortstop in order to benefit from the runs saved. A more common tradeoff many years ago. Not one that Ortiz was comfortable hauling i
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Noah Denoyer racked up the Ks with the big boys on O's farm
Steve Melewski
Orioles
Doing the math is pretty easy. Interpreting what it all means can be more challenging. But we do know the sport of baseball has gravitated toward placing increased value on pitchers with big strikeout totals. And while we used to be most enamored with raw strikeout totals, now stats like strikeout percentage might tell us a bit more. Strikeout perc
How long until a National contends for a BBWAA award again?
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
Awards Week wraps up tonight with the announcement of the two leagues’ MVP winners, and you’re forgiven if you haven’t been paying attention to this stuff. Because, really, why would you this year? Unless some rogue writer gave Joey Meneses a 10th place MVP vote, the Nationals will have been shut out entirely from discussion about the four major aw
This, that and the other
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Grayson Rodriguez celebrated his 23rd birthday yesterday by hopping on a video call with some members of the local media. One big wish had already come true for Rodriguez. The Orioles selected his contract on Tuesday, placing him on the 40-man roster at the deadline prior to next month’s Rule 5 draft. Rodriguez referred to it as “an honor,” while o
       
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