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Recent Orioles waiver claim Mark Kolozsvary hit a home run once. This is it. | Photo by Lauren Bacho/Getty Images The Orioles pounced on a pair of Reds catchers who hit the waiver wire last week. Since the start of 2022, Camden Chat has written an article about each player on the Orioles 40-man roster, with updates as new ones arrive. How he arrived: Waiver claim from … [Read more...] about Know Your Orioles 40-man: Mark Kolozsvary

Ramón Urías made a lot of nice plays this year. Some people outside of Baltimore noticed. | Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images Jorge Mateo was somehow snubbed. It’s been seven years since Manny Machado won a Gold Glove at third base for the Orioles, and in that time no other O’s player has won anything. For a lot of that time, the drought isn’t exactly surprising. The … [Read more...] about Ramón Urías, Cedric Mullins are Orioles finalists for a 2022 Gold Glove

Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Trey Mancini and the Houston Astros will look to stretch their ALCS lead to 2-0 as they face Aaron Judge and the Yankees If you like great pitching, solo HRs and the Yankees losing, game 1 of the ALCS was for you! The Astros got six strong innings out of AL Cy Young favorite Justin Verlander—which included striking out 11 Yankees and only … [Read more...] about Thursday MLB postseason open thread

The LCS field is set, Sulser is claimed, and two current O’s have birthdays. Good morning, Birdland! The LCS matchups in the respective leagues couldn’t be more different. On the NL side, we have two wild cards that both slayed their in-division dragons to get to this point. The Phillies took down the defending champion Braves, and the Padres knocked off the juggernaut Dodgers. … [Read more...] about Wednesday Bird Droppings: Rooting for Trey Mancini in the ALCS

Carter Baumler is just one of several promising pitching prospects that suffered injuries in 2022. | Kelsey Kremer/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Seth Johnson, Carter Baumler and Kyle Brnovich all have plenty of ability on the mound. It was their availability that was a problem in 2022, as they all battled injuries. The Orioles have been great of late at developing … [Read more...] about Orioles prospect season in review: The injured pitchers