The Sunday Notes: 2015 Awards Edition
November 22, 2015 by Ron Juckett · 2 Comments
The 2015 award season has come and gone, ending the year. For the twelfth straight year, average attendance per game topped 30,000 and overall gate went up, barely, over last year. All told, 73,760,020 purchased tickets to Major League Baseball games in 2015. Would you believe the first year the average topped 20,000 was 1979 […]
Clearing The Bases
April 23, 2013 by George Kurtz · Leave a Comment
Baltimore Orioles: The Orioles sent down SP Jake Arrieta to AAA after another subpar performance on Monday. Arrieta has good stuff but doesn’t seem to have figured out how to control it within the strike zone…..Speaking of SPs, Dylan Bundy is going to get a second opinion from Dr. James Andrews about his ailing elbow. […]
A Conversation with Dan Duqeutte
April 17, 2013 by Joel Poiley · 1 Comment
It’s completely fine with the Baltimore Orioles if national pundits and soothsayers again pick them to finish close to the bottom of the always competitive American League East. They believed this time last season they were much better than the 100-loss aggregation most predicted, and they took that quiet confidence into a season that eventuated […]
Toeing the Rubber/Riding the Pine: Week #3
April 15, 2013 by Chris Mitchell · 1 Comment
WEEK #3 Double Start “Start ‘Em Sit ‘Em” MUST START PITCHERS Cliff Lee/Jordan Zimmerman/Kris Medlen/Josh Johnson/Lance Lynn/Doug Fister/Homer Bailey/Tommy Millone/Derek Holland/Ryan Dempster MUST SIT PITCHERS Kyle Kendrick/Eric Stutts/Dylan Aexlrod/Alex Sanabia/Aaron Laffey/Jonathan Sanchez/Mike Pelfrey/Jeff Francis/Jake Arrieta/Joe Blanton/Ubaldo Jimenez/Mark Buerhle/Wily Peralta/Ivan Nova/Juan Ncasio/Dillon Gee THE TOUGH CALLS “3-2 Count” We are in week #3 and as far […]
AL East Positional Analysis And Ranking: Starting Rotation (No. 3 Starter)
February 22, 2011 by Jeffrey Brown · Leave a Comment
I am in the midst of a series examining the relative strengths and weaknesses of the teams in the AL East, on a position-by-position basis. The players at each position are being ranked in relation to their peers within the division, with each team being assigned points based on where their player ranks in comparison […]
Power Arms of the Future
September 10, 2010 by Bobby Aguilera · Leave a Comment
The original habitat for this post can be found here. Remember last year, when we wrote a piece on BAseball Reality Tour called Power Arms of the Future? Â We wanted to celebrate how impressed we were with performances from young pitchers like Mat Latos, Tommy Hanson, and Neftali Feliz. As something we hope will be […]
Bottoming Out in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
September 2, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment
They should bottle Showalter’s elixir and sell it outside Camden Yarks. Â The Baltimore Orioles are showing signs of life in response to their new manager’s tonic after flat-lining for more than half of the 2010 season. The Orioles’ record since Showalter stepped into the dugout is 17 – 10. Â That is a .630 winning percentage […]
Something Rotten in the State of Maryland
August 1, 2010 by Ted Leavengood · Leave a Comment
Mike Rizzo traded Matt Capps and Cristian Guzman for prospects and kept Adam Dunn. Â His team and his fans are both happy and the team is playing hungry again. Â Andy MacPhail failed to move Luke Scott or Ty Wiggington but hired Buck Showalter to make sense of it all. Â Still, something in Baltimore just doesn’t […]
