SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS HERE iTunes / Google Play The Orioles’ 2017 draft is over, and now the process of signing the club’s 41 picks is underway. On Wednesday, the club announced it had reached deals with 27 players from this draft class – an impressive number so quickly after the picks...
ABERDEEN — Orioles closer Zach Britton faced opposing hitters for the first time since May 4, throwing a scoreless inning Tuesday for the Short-A Aberdeen IronBirds at Ripken Stadium. Britton, who was placed on the disabled list May 6 for a second time this season due to a strained left forearm, began...
Just like that, another Major League Baseball first-year-player draft has come and gone. It’s the second one since BaltimoreBaseball.com was created. Last year, I took a look at all 41 draft picks that the Orioles made during the three-day event. Because Dan Connolly loved the idea – and because it’s a great...
The Orioles made 30 selections on Day Three of the 2017 First-Year Player Draft on Wednesday, completing rounds 11-40. This year, the O’s selected 41 players overall: 21 pitchers and 20 position players, with 29 of the selections being college athletes. The team chose 12 right-handed pitchers, nine left-handed pitchers, eight infielders, seven outfielders, four...
As the second day of the 2017 amateur draft comes to a close, we wanted to highlight not only the Orioles’ selections, but also local high school and college players taken by the other 29 organizations. Here are profiles of the O’s Tuesday picks, as well as four local products who had...
With their earliest selection in Major League Baseball’s amateur draft since 2012, the Orioles took Valdosta (Ga.) High School left-hander DL Hall at No. 21 on Monday night. “It was a very exciting and emotional time,” Hall said during a conference call with reporters around midnight Monday. “It’s always cool to hear...
When the Orioles pick 21st in the first round of Major League Baseball’s amateur draft Monday night, they’ll be making the club’s earliest selection since 2012 – which was the inaugural one under executive vice president Dan Duquette and scouting director Gary Rajsich. That year, the Orioles chose Louisiana State University right-hander...
Garabez Rosa exudes patience in his pursuit of the big leagues. Yet he also realizes the urgency in attaining that dream. Somehow, though, the two forces never conflict for the Double-A Bowie utility man, who is arguably the most patient and most unique member of the entire Orioles’ organization – and one...
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS HERE iTunes / Google Play With apologies to Adam Pohl and Dean Jones Jr., there’s no one who knows the Orioles’ farm system quite like Brian Graham, the organization’s director of player development. Graham has been with the Orioles for 10 seasons and at the center of the...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Just don’t tell my wife I said that. She would tell you that’s the Christmas season. Of course, I know Christmas, her birthday, my two sons’ birthdays, our anniversary and my birthday mean a lot more on a personal level than any of the...