Tonight should be an amazing display of pitching in Game 1 of the World Series. We’ll have it showing on the big screen here at the Tap Room (and you can watch leisurely, O’s fans, now that the New York Yankees are home, too). Three-time NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw...
We’ve made it to baseball’s final dance. Congrats. I love the World Series, I truly do. I guess I am supposed to; I’ve covered a bunch and am a baseball writer for a living — when I’m not doling out fake drinks in this dusty dive. But there is something special in...
Welcome to the final part of my 2017 end-of-season AL East position rankings. As a reminder, the main purpose of this series is to basically make a fool of myself. I’m looking back at my AL East position rankings from April and determining what I got right and — as is usually...
Welcome to part two of my AL East position rankings series. If you’re just joining us, I’m rating how each of the five division teams fared at every position in 2017 — and comparing them to my preseason rankings in April to discover just how wrong I was. In part one, I...
At the start of the 2017 season, I attempted to compare the Orioles to their AL East opponents by ranking each team in the division at every position on the field. Making predictions is a fool’s errand, as we all know. And making predictions about how five teams will rank at every...
I had a weekend to contemplate my entry for the Tap Room today, and, well, I couldn’t quite get beyond what happened in the baseball postseason. Somehow, the Washington Nationals got through the Stephen Strasburg controversy, won Game 4 at Wrigley Field and then still lost the National League Division Series to...
Welcome to the final edition of this year’s “Stats All, Folks.” To close the book on 2017, I’m doing something a little different today. Instead of introducing a new sabermetric stat to analyze, I’m going to come full circle and call back to the first statistic I looked at this year:...
We had a pretty spirited conversation on the site Thursday about what the Orioles need to do in order to improve their pitching for 2018. It was spirited enough that I want to carry it into the Tap Room this weekend. It’s my belief that the best way – maybe the only...
Periodically this season, we’ve checked the progress of 2016 Orioles’ players who landed with other major league teams this year. With the 2017 regular season in the books, let’s take one final look at the ex-Orioles who flew the nest after last year.
The lights are down low in the Tap Room today. This has been a rough start to the week. Another national tragedy that makes all of our hearts sink. And even the things that are supposed to help distract us from real life – like sports and music — aren’t exactly comforting...