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This sounds a lot less promising than the headline makes it seem...
Of the nine players who rejected the QO, Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports that Baltimore has shown some interest in Framber Valdez, Kyle Schwarber, and Dylan Cease (before Cease signed with the Blue Jays yesterday). In addition to qualified free agents, the Orioles have “checked in on” Tatsuya Imai, as part of the team’s explorations of the upper tiers of the pitching market.
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Cody Bellinger definitely playing Minecraft in the Dodgers' video room.
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Need someone to email this to Mike Elias twice a day, every day for the next 3 months
Andrew Friedman (Dodgers GM): "If you're always rational about every free agent, you will finish third on every free agent."
November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Only John Gibbons has a worse challenge success rate than Brandon Hyde among managers with more than 4 seasons as manager since review was introduced. Sure, some could have been close calls that didn't get overturned, but that doesn't excuse a success rate of 40.5%
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Orioles and Mets are gonna switch first base coaches
Andy Martino on bad site If you're looking for an explanation for why Mets lost a coach they wanted to retain in Antoan Richardson, I'm guessing it will all make sense in early Nov. The team did everything it could to re-sign him but he clearly wanted to become a free agent. From experience, I would speculate that this typically means a coach simply has somewhere else he or she wants to go, working with a friend or former co-worker. Word around the league is Orioles have given current 1b coach Anthony Sanders permission to talk to other clubs btw. O’s did not confirm this.
October 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Craig Albernaz's wife:
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Tomo said
September 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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This is just such insane reasoning. Akin went 1.2 innings 4 days ago (on 4 days rest btw), so we felt comfortable asking for another 1.2 on 0 days rest.

Also, of course the player said he wanted the ball. He's not going to say no I don't want to be in the moment.

Just complete malpractice.
"We just didn’t want to send Rico out basically against four straight hitters that are really tough on right-handed pitching. And then on top of that, just the idea that Akin had a five-out save a few days ago. We felt like he was kind of primed for it.” Akin has appeared in three of the last four games. "We talked to him," Mansolino said. "He felt great, he wanted the ball. Just trying to get him through two hitters most likely there was kind of the idea with the two guys being so much better. We felt very comfortable with it. Just didn’t work out."
August 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Remember when Mike Elias declined to sign Nolan McLean and gave this guy 1.3M in the 17th round instead?
August 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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August 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I know MASN programming stinks but are they really not putting it on TV?
August 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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August 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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watching the brewers
I don't really care if something good happened to you. It should have happened to me instead.
August 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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August 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Reskeet with a tweet you still think about
gf: im not having sex in here me: *zipping tent window* why not babe cabela's manager: *knocking on flap*
August 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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😬 omg it gets worse. Why is he saying these things out loud to someone he knows is going to report it??
“For Coby, it’s get really good at first base, and then at that point you’ve got to swing the bat because our guy’s coming, Basallo’s coming,” Mansolino said. “He plays a really good first base. So there’s gonna be competition internally for that job, and Coby’s gonna get some run, he’s gonna get a lot of opportunities, he’s gonna get a lot of chances to fail, which we’re giving him right now. And then at some point the best man kind of takes the job, and that’s normal, that’s healthy, and that’s what you want in a good organization. And that situation’s coming.” Mansolino made certain that Mountcastle, a two-time Gold Glove finalist who’s a year away from free agency, understood the situation with Mayo. He's earned that consideration. “Mounty knows with kind of where he’s at in terms of arbitration and everything going on, he knows he’s got to hit,” Mansolino said. “He’s aware of that, we’ve talked about it. Everybody in the room kind of knows where that thing’s at. “For him, yeah, he would love to play first base and he’s really good at it, but just to have the ability to focus on his hitting right now is gonna help him more so than anything. We know he can play defense, he knows he can play defense. He’s got to get back to the Mountcastle of old to put himself in a good position for this winter.”
August 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I think it's impossible for Mansolino to just compliment one of his players publicly. He always has to get a dig in to balance it.
“There’s moments where you go, ‘Whew, that was a really nice play,’ and then there’s moments where you go, ‘Not quite there yet.’ But I think he is progressing. I think he’s done a good job here for the last 2 ½ months, however long he’s been here. We’re really proud of the progress he’s made,” Mansolino said. “I look at him now and when we put him out on defense, I’m not worried. I’m more like disappointed if he doesn’t make a play, whereas when he first came here, if he didn’t make a play, I kind of felt for him that we’re putting him in that situation. So my feelings on him have really changed. Our expectation level has changed. He’s worked hard for it. I feel comfortable with him playing first base. I love the target off the bag, I love the length off the bag. It’s a very underrated part of playing first base that people don’t talk about. So feel good about him.” “The sky’s the limit for Coby,” Mansolino said, using Mountcastle as a comparison. “He’s got a long way to go. He’s not average for me yet, but he’s inching closer by the day. It’s gonna take a lot of work and that’s got to come from within. That’s not gonna be a scenario where coaches are grabbing him every day and saying, ‘Get your butt out here.’ It’s gonna be a scenario where he comes looking for coaches every day. As he goes looking for coaches and hunting the work, that’s when he’ll really take off. “I don’t see the third base thing happening but I don’t make all the decisions. For me right now, I think he’s playing a real good first base. I think he tried really hard to play third base. It just didn’t work out. You’ve also got this guy there named Jordan Westburg that’s pretty darn good. Is he gonna unseat Jordan Westburg? If he’s not, then why are we playing him at third base? He’s got to be able to play first base, and that’s kind of where the at-bats are going forward.”
August 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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watching the orioles
"Fuck. We fucking look like a bunch of wankers."
August 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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ALL 6 of the prospects that the Orioles just acquired were drafted by the Padres last year
July 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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"extreme over-the-top delivery?" surely that doesn't also come with high injury risk

www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
Palmer is a flier. At 6-5, he was a 19th round pick out of an Oklahoma community college last year. He's steadily added velocity over the last couple of years and while his command is not great right now, he's missed bats and, at 20, is worth a shot. He's yet to enter anyone's top 30 just yet, but FanGraph's James Fegan notes that Palmer has a funky "Josh Collmenter arm slot" -- basically the ball seems to appear from behind his head because of an extreme over-the-top delivery -- so that's interesting Tommy John | COMING SOON
July 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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All I can think of when his dude pitches
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July 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Play him every day
Coby Mayo in little league (?)
July 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Mayo bomb
Coby Mayo in high school
July 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Looks like Aracena was a popular target
"I reported in the last week that scouts were swarming Clover Park watching RHP Wellington Aracena. A dynamic huge "stuff" pitcher who's been thriving lately with improved command"
July 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM