Orioles general manager Mike Elias is happy to accept some of the blame if expectations are a little harder to manage this season. "I believe our rebuild is behind us and we've got an incredible chance now to be a very, very competitive team for years," Elias said. The Orioles went 83-79 last year, a 31-win improvement that nearly landed Baltimore in the playoffs. The Orioles have eight of the game's top 100 prospects in MLB Pipeline's latest ranking, including infielder Gunnar Henderson, who is No. 1 on the list after reaching the big leagues at the end of last season.
Baseball season is coming, and it feels so good! The Orioles have been dropping all sorts of pre-spring training tidbits all week. There was the hype video of the Oriole Bird packing up the trucks for Sarasota, the team started up the Birdland Caravan fan events, and of course the non-roster invite list. Mixed in there was the failure of ownership to agree to a long-term lease deal with the Maryland Stadium Authority, yet another bungle in an impressively poor offseason for the Angelos family.
In March 1984, less than two weeks before Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott was born, the National Football League's Baltimore Colts bolted for Indianapolis in the middle of the night. Scott is confident the city won't have a repeat when it comes to the Orioles. “Baltimore knows what it feels like when a team is disinvesting in and going to leave, right?” Scott said at a news conference earlier this month with Orioles CEO and chairman John Angelos seated beside him. The Orioles have continued to make deep investments in the community.
No | Player | Pos |
---|---|---|
45 | P | |
43 | P | |
53 | P | |
74 | P | |
39 | P | |
78 | P | |
P | ||
48 | P | |
71 | P | |
60 | P | |
24 | P | |
19 | P | |
P | ||
84 | SP | |
34 | P | |
64 | P | |
47 | P | |
P | ||
58 | P | |
P | ||
P | ||
55 | P | |
79 | P | |
51 | P | |
52 | P | |
68 | P | |
50 | P |
No | Player | Pos |
---|---|---|
27 | C | |
35 | C |
No | Player | Pos |
---|---|---|
12 | 2B | |
2 | 3B | |
3 | SS | |
6 | 1B | |
SS | ||
29 | 3B | |
77 | 2B |
No | Player | Pos |
---|---|---|
21 | LF | |
26 | LF | |
31 | CF | |
25 | RF | |
83 | RF |