Hello, friends. There are now 81 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day. Just a month and five days stand between now and World Baseball Classic-participating pitchers and catchers reporting to Sarasota. It’s getting close. Going into the offseason, everyone was wondering if the Orioles would do a big move to fortify the top of their […]
2 months ago | 5 reads
Good morning Birdland, Spring training starts next month! Any pitchers and catchers participating in the World Baseball Classic must report to Sarasota by February 9, while the rest will be in by February 11. Position players that will take part in the WBC must make it to Ed Smith Stadium by February 12, and all […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
For most of my adult life, I have been able to count on receiving an Orioles calendar for Christmas from a well-meaning relative. When my grandmother was alive, she gave calendars to everyone, and since she passed, my mom has picked up the mantle. Christmas is a great time to get a calendar because I’d […]
2 months ago | 6 reads
Good morning, Camden Chatters. In the Orioles’ pursuit of a big-name starting pitcher, one major candidate just came off the board. Nippon Professional Baseball standout Tatsuya Imai reportedly will sign with the Houston Astros on a three-year, $54 million contract that includes opt-outs after every season. It’s one of the most surprising free agent deals […]
2 months ago | 5 reads
Hello, friends. You’ve made it! The cursed year 2025 is over and you have survived. 2026 will surely bring its own share of challenges but hopefully at least within the sphere of our favorite baseball team things will go better on the strength of internal and external improvements to the roster that are made this […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
Lots of things didn’t go the Orioles’ way this year. One of them: their skipper. On May 17, the front office pulled the plug on manager Brandon Hyde, opting to take their chances with longtime infield coach Tony Mansolino in his stead. Though Mansolino appeared well-liked in the role, after the season ended, in late […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
Good Morning Birdland, The final day of 2025 has arrived. Clearly, this past year did not go the Orioles way. The team, as a whole, suffered a significant regression. They tumbled down the standings, fired their manager, and experienced their most disappointing season in some time. And it came during a season in which the […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
Heston Kjerstad went through an extended period of uncertainty after the Orioles made him the second overall pick in the 2020 draft. The organization eventually announced that Kjerstad had been suffering from myocarditis, and the “non-baseball injury” was preventing the top prospect from making his professional debut. Kjerstad was finally cleared to play in 2022, […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
Hello, friends. There are now 86 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day 2026. Any of the next few days could prove to be an eventful one, depending on when Japanese pitcher Tatsuya Imai decides on which major league team he wants to join. The deadline awaits on Friday, so it will be then at the […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
Over the last couple of weeks, Camden Chat’s writers have been looking back on what we thought were some of the biggest single storylines of the year for the Orioles. There were many to choose from, big and small. As the year 2025 is on its way out, I’m going to share one more set […]
2 months ago | 2 reads
From now until the end of the year, Camden Chat writers will be revisiting some of the biggest moments and storylines of the disappointing 2025 Orioles season. The Orioles and Dodgers had very different seasons. One team stumbled all over itself to begin the year, fired their manager, dealt with a ridiculous number of injuries, […]
2 months ago | 7 reads
Happy Monday, Camden Chatters. The Orioles did something this weekend! They signed a starting pitcher, although it probably isn’t the pitcher you were hoping for. While you were out there hoping the Orioles would sign Tatsuya Imai or Ranger Suárez or Framber Valdez, instead they reunited with Zach Eflin on a one-year deal. The contract […]
2 months ago | 3 reads
The Orioles are reuniting with one of their free agents from last season. USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reported on Sunday evening that the team is bringing back starting pitcher Zach Eflin. It’s a one-year contract with $10 million guaranteed, according to Jon Heyman. Eflin, who turns 32 early next season, was acquired from the Rays […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
Good morning, Camden Chatters. The clock is running down on 2025, but not before we wish happy birthday to the Orioles’ president of baseball operations, Mike Elias, who turns 44 today. Elias has already given himself some early birthday presents this winter with the acquisitions of Pete Alonso, Shane Baz, Taylor Ward, Ryan Helsley, and […]
2 months ago | 8 reads
Good morning Birdland, As many expected, the movement around baseball has slowed during this holiday period. The starting pitching market, where the Orioles’ focus remains, has been almost entirely static. Perhaps the decision coming from Tatsuya Imai next week will loosen things up. Although many outlets seem to regard Framber Valdez or Ranger Suárez as […]
2 months ago | 1 read
The Orioles have showed an aggressive, win-now mentality this offseason. But they’ve always got an eye on the future, too. And they’re pulling out all the stops to try to garner an extra 2027 draft pick through the Prospect Promotion Incentive system. As a refresher, PPI, created in 2022, was designed to encourage teams to […]
3 months ago | 3 reads
Hello, friends. There are now 90 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day 2026. I hope that everyone who celebrated Christmas yesterday was able to have a nice and relaxing day. On account of yesterday having been Christmas, there will probably not be much happening in the baseball world today. Or maybe the sicko GMs will […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
Good morning, Camden Chatters, and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. For Orioles fans, it feels like Christmas has come early. For the first offseason in what feels like forever, the O’s have acted aggressively and decisively — and spent a boatload of money — to improve their team. Pete Alonso, of course, was the […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
Good Morning Birdland, A quiet period in MLB may be approaching. Baseball players, agents, and executives are people, and they also like to spend time with family around the holidays. With today being Christmas Eve, that could mean relatively few moves of significance in the next couple of days. But that’s OK! The Orioles have […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
Throughout the heyday of the Buck Showalter Orioles, Baltimore’s bats became synonymous with one thing: power, and lots of it. Between 2013 and 2016, an Oriole led the American League in home runs for four straight seasons. In 2016, the O’s led all of baseball with 253 home runs as the Birdland Power Company lit […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
Good morning, Camden Chatters. There are just nine days until it’s 2026, but we have a much longer wait until there’s actual baseball. Spring training games begin Feb. 20 and Opening Day is on March 26, more than three months away. Plenty of offseason remains until then, and only half of MLB’s top 50 free […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
From now until the end of the year, Camden Chat writers will be revisiting some of the biggest moments and storylines of the disappointing 2025 Orioles season. Entering the 2025 season, Mike Elias had made multi-year commitments to pretty much nobody. The only free agent he’d ever given more than one guaranteed year was Tyler […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
Happy Monday, Camden Chatters! We’re just three days to Christmas, so if the Orioles are going to make another big move this week, it will probably happen today or tomorrow. It feels greedy to hope for another big move just days after Mike Elias traded four prospects and a draft pick to the Rays for […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
Hello, friends. There are now 95 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day 2026. If this weekend is any indication, things are not going to be sleepy from now until Christmas or even from then until the new year. Does Mike Elias have another (perhaps the last) substantial move in him before the calendar turns? A […]
3 months ago | 4 reads
Good morning Birdland, This is the type of offseason that Orioles fans have been clamoring for since Mike Elias took control of the team back in 2018. Going into Friday, Elias had already been quite aggressive, trading for Taylor Ward and Andrew Kittredge, and signing Pete Alonso and Ryan Helsley. But the O’s EVP took […]
3 months ago | 6 reads