The weeks after Major League Baseball’s first-year-player draft are often filled with promotions, releases and other moves as a new group of signees joins the organization. On Friday, the Orioles announced their first draft-pick signing – former Illinois right-hander Cody Sedlock, the club’s first-round selection (27th overall). And Monday, the club added...
CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS ON ITUNES We won’t really know about the Orioles’ 2016 draft class for another three years, five years or even longer. But it’s always interesting to hear what the organization wanted to accomplish, what they targeted and why they grabbed some of the players they...
Later this week, I’ll have more than two dozen new players to factor into my updates. Short-season Single-A Aberdeen will begin its New York-Penn League schedule Friday at Hudson Valley. After two games against the Renegades and three more at Staten Island, the IronBirds will return to Ripken Stadium for their home...
Major League Baseball’s 2016 first-year-player draft is in the books. It’s the first one since BaltimoreBaseball.com came into existence. So we wanted to do something a little special – with the help of some serious internet research – and provide a snapshot of each one of the Orioles’ picks. Seriously. All 41...
One of the most important aspects of building a farm system is MLB’s annual first-year-player draft. It begins Thursday with the initial two rounds, and runs through Saturday. To get us ready for it, Adam Pohl talks with John Manuel, the co-editor of Baseball America, which is considered the premier source for amateur...
A few dozen new players will join the Orioles’ minor league system this weekend. The 2016 Major League Baseball first-year player draft will take place Thursday evening through Saturday. The first two rounds will be televised Thursday on MLB Network, starting at 7 p.m., while rounds three through 10 can be viewed...
The four pitchers acquired by the Orioles earlier this month all made their organizational debuts during the past week. The veteran of the bunch, 33-year-old left-hander Brian Duensing (pictured above), retired all three batters he faced – including the first two on strikeouts – in the eighth inning of Triple-A Norfolk’s 9-2...
As I’m sure you know by now, the Orioles parted ways with Brian Matusz on Monday night. The club dealt the struggling left-handed reliever and a compensatory draft pick (76th overall in this year’s draft) to the Atlanta Braves for two minor league pitchers – right-hander Brandon Barker and left-hander Trevor Belicek....
One year ago today, the Orioles announced they had dealt two international bonus slots to the Houston Astros for a Low-A left-hander named Chris Lee. I don’t think anyone thought much of the deal at the time. Since then, Lee has posted a 2.91 ERA over 151 2/3 innings between High-A Frederick and Double-A...
Every Tuesday, I give an update on how the minor leaguers on Baseball America’s Orioles 2016 Top 10 prospect list have played in the previous seven days. Regular readers know that right-handers Dylan Bundy, Mychal Givens and Mike Wright are excluded since they’re in the major leagues. I assign the other seven...