Tag: Baltimore Orioles
Reasons for each MLB team to be optimistic — and pessimistic — about the rest of the season
Believe it or not, we have played five weeks of the regular season, and already we’ve seen enough to identify reasons for optimism and pessimism for all 30 teams.
Is the glass half-empty? Half-full? From those at the top of the MLB power rankings to those at the bottom, every team has reasons for hope and concern in 2024.
NL East
Atlanta Braves
Reason for optimism: The Braves have the best lineup in baseball one to nine, with athleticism, power
Warum der jüngste Scouting-Triumph der Orioles ein 34-jähriger Pitcher-Geselle ist
Albert Suárez ist kein typisches Baltimore-Orioles-Phänomen. Sein Weg war ganz anders als der von Jackson Holliday, dem besten Kandidaten des Spiels; Colton Cowser und Jordan Westburg, die aufeinanderfolgenden American League-Spieler der Woche; oder Heston Kjerstad, der jüngste Nachwuchsstar, der dem Verein beigetreten ist, nachdem er die Triple-A International League mit 10 Homeruns in 21 Spielen angeführt hat.
Bei diesen Spielern handelte es sich um Top-Draft-Picks, Top-100-Kandidaten, die nicht nur aus beneidenswerten Draft-Positionen resultierten, die aus jahrelanger Arbeit resultierten, sondern auch
Der Baltimore Oriole, der wie ein Cherub aussieht und den Schläger schwingt wie eine zukünftige Legende
Jackson Holliday hat die goldenen Locken und rötlichen Wangen eines Cherubs, aber es ist sein Schwung, der mich an Raphael, den alten Meister, denken lässt – so hübsch und mächtig anmutig. Holliday hat seit seiner Kindheit den gleichen tollen Schwung, und es gibt Videos, die das beweisen. Er ist jetzt erst zwanzig und sieht immer noch aus, als wäre er zwölf. Als ihn die Baltimore Orioles am 10. April, nicht einmal zwei Wochen nach Beginn der laufenden Saison und nicht
MLB offseason grades 2.0 : Which teams passed — and which teams failed
The Athletic’s MLB offseason grades 1.0.
By Tim Britton, Grant Brisbee and Aaron Gleeman
According to a report by an economics professor at Yale University, roughly 80 percent of all grades handed out to undergraduate students last year were As. Too bad for major-league executives, then, that they don’t attend Yale (at least not anymore, in several cases). The grading is going to be harsher here.
The best teachers, of course, are kind enough to allow for revision. We first
2024 MLB ‘Wild-Card Era’ Franchise Rankings: Rangers break into top 10, Cubs fall out
As Jonah Heim squeezed the final strike of the 2023 postseason and Josh Sborz spiked his mitt on the mound to celebrate the Texas Rangers’ first World Series title, a thought crossed my mind: How will this change the franchise rankings?
See, the Wild-Card Era (1995 to present) franchise rankings are not a creation of my fallible mind. They are borne from a tested, trusted, completely objective, never-been-questioned, all-math, no-bias formula borrowed from football writer Bob Sturm and tweaked to
Top 100 MLB prospects 2024: Keith Law’s rankings, with Jackson Holliday at No. 1
Welcome to this year’s ranking of the top 100 prospects in baseball. I’ve been compiling and writing such rankings for 17 years now, and those of you who’ve read them before will find the format here similar to those from the recent past. My farm reports covering at least 20 prospects in each team’s system, and notes on prospects who might appear in the majors this year, or who might be breakout prospects for the 2025 rankings, will appear starting
Branchenanalysten und MLB-Insider zur Bewertung der Orioles in Höhe von 1,725 Milliarden US-Dollar: „Niedrig“
Im Baseballbereich war die Reaktion auf die Bewertung der Baltimore Orioles mit 1,725 Milliarden US-Dollar überraschend und in einigen Fällen ungläubig.
Sieben Branchenanalysten und konkurrierende Beamte, denen im Austausch für ihre Offenheit Anonymität gewährt wurde, verwendeten alle dasselbe Wort, um den Preis zu beschreiben:
“Niedrig.”
Die Orioles gaben am Mittwoch offiziell den Verkauf der Franchise an eine Gruppe unter der Leitung von David Rubenstein bekannt, einem aus Baltimore stammenden Gründer der Private-Equity-Firma The Carlyle Group. Laut Puck News, das erstmals
What we learned from the Baseball Hall of Fame election: Beltré’s big night, Mauer power and more
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — There were Adrián Beltré and Joe Mauer. This was their first Hall of Fame election. They won’t need a second. On Tuesday, they became baseball’s newest first-ballot Hall of Famers. And that stamps them as baseball royalty, connected forever to this special stamp of greatness.
Beltré reeled in 95.1 percent of the vote. That’s the same percentage as a guy named Babe Ruth. If he ever needs to impress people at a party over the next 40
Baseball Hall of Fame ballots 2024: The Athletic’s voters explain their selections
Look, we get it.
The Baseball Hall of Fame is a breathtaking idea. It’s a celebration. It’s a history lesson. It’s a pilgrimage. The museum in Cooperstown is home to heroes and memories and the posters on our walls. The very notion can fill a fan with wonder, and actually being there feels like going to church, and the Louvre, and Game 7 of the World Series, all at once.
And so, we care a great deal about who gets