CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS ON ITUNES As a Rule 5 pick, hard-throwing right-hander Jason Garcia had to stay in the majors all season in 2015 for the Orioles to keep him in the organization. He made it, pitching 21 games with the Orioles last year – all in relief...
Yikes. Maybe I shouldn’t take a vacation again. In the two weeks since the last “Dean Jones Report,” the Orioles are 5-8. They were tied with the Toronto Blue Jays atop the American League East when I left. Now, they’re in third place, two games behind the Blue Jays and the Boston...
CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS ON ITUNES Delmarva pitching coach Blaine Beatty has been coaching in the Orioles organization for 11 seasons, and has mentored many of the club’s young hurlers. One of his prized pupils is Dylan Bundy, who is now tearing up the majors. Beatty, a former Orioles’...
CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS ON ITUNES Bowie Baysox manager Gary Kendall, a Baltimore native, is the winningest skipper in team history and the only person to lead the club to an Eastern League championship. He also has one of the better stories in the Orioles’ minor league system. A...
There’s a little less than a month remaining in the minor league season. That means we’re nearing the end of the first year of the “Dean Jones Report.” But as any Hall of Fame hitter – or great writer – will tell you, it’s never too late to make adjustments. And that’s...
Heading into Monday’s trade deadline, much of the focus was on what the Orioles didn’t have in their system in order to add a top rental for the pennant push. They don’t possess that marquee player, but they do have guys who generated some interest in the trade market. We’ve often heard...
The “Dean Jones Report” didn’t lose any members this week. As you know by now, the Orioles and executive vice president Dan Duquette made two deals before the nonwaiver trade deadline Monday afternoon. But neither move involved minor leaguers ranked among the club’s top 10 prospects. The organization sent Triple-A Norfolk left-hander...
With just a few days until the Aug. 1 non-waiver trade deadline and the Orioles sitting atop the American League East, trade talk in Birdland is in full swing. An acute need for starting pitching and a thin farm system could be a tricky equation for GM Dan Duquette, which is why...
CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS ON ITUNES This is always a big week for the minor leagues, no matter how the teams do on the field. Monday is the non-waiver trade deadline, the last time this season when big league teams can deal whomever they like without passing the players...
The Orioles’ minor league system could look a lot different by this time next week. Or maybe it won’t. It all depends on whether executive vice president Dan Duquette can find a match in his quest to improve the American League East-leading club with a trade (or more). When I first started...