Baltimore Orioles Rumors & News

Baltimore Sun "Just last week, Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette said pitching prospect Kevin Gausman was a starting rotation option for the future, but not the immediate present. But the 22-year-old right-hander will join the Orioles this week and is expected to make his major league debut..." May 22

CSN Baltimore "For the last week, Jim Johnson’s locker has been the most popular stopping point in the Orioles clubhouse. Three times he stood there and explained what went wrong. Never made any excuses, never any whining. On Tuesday, his space was a happier place. After blowing three straight saves,..." May 22

New York Post "No Yankee is more familiar with Travis Hafner than CC Sabathia, making the ace the resident expert. “It looks like he is back,’’ Sabathia said of his former Indians teammate whose career has been derailed by injuries. “He is healthy and happy.’’ Last night at Camden Yards, Hafner put a smile..." May 21

Tampa Bay Times "LHP Matt Moore became the first eight-game winner in the majors as the Rays completed a three-game sweep of the Orioles with a 3-1 win. Moore moved to a perfect 8-0 in working seven innings, allowing the one runs and five hits, striking out three. Joel Peralta worked the eighth and Fernando..." May 19

Baltimore Sun "In a sense, baseball players are a lot like other craftsmen. They have tools they become comfortable with over the years, and it’s hard to make a change when a manufacturer discontinues or alters a product. That’s sort of what has happened to Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy this season,..." May 16

CSN Baltimore "Miguel Gonzalez won’t have to go on a minor league rehab assignment after all. After being placed on the 15-day disabled list with a blister on his right thumb, the Orioles decided that Gonzalez can throw a simulated game on Friday afternoon instead. If Gonzalez gets through his game without..." May 16

San Diego Union-Tribune "Alexi Amarista had a two-run homer plus two doubles, reserve catcher John Baker drove in his first two runs of the season to open the scoring and Jason Marquis picked up his fourth straight win Wednesday afternoon at the Padres defeated Baltimore 8-4 to complete a two-game sweep of the Orioles at..." May 16

CSN Baltimore "The first quarter of the season is over. It ended with the Orioles being swept for the first time this season and Freddy Garcia pitching poorly. Manager Buck Showalter poked fun at a question about the quarter point. “It’s behind us. The good, the bad, the whatever. It’s part of it. This is..." May 15

San Diego Union-Tribune "Closers are supposed to have short memories. It’s how they survive. Blow a save, move on. But the events of last Saturday night in St. Petersburg, Fla., stuck with Huston Street. “That one in Tampa Bay frustrated me as much as any save I’ve blown in my life,” Street said Tuesday night of..." May 15

CSN Baltimore "Wei-Yin Chen is likely headed to the disabled list with a strained right oblique muscle. The Orioles' left-hander suffered the injury during the fifth inning of Sunday’s win at Minneapolis. “He looks like he’s a candidate for the disabled list,” Orioles executive vice president of baseball..." May 13

CSN Baltimore "Late on Saturday night, Mike Belfiore found out that he was getting his first call to the major leagues. The 24-year-old left-hander was summoned from Norfolk to help the Orioles out in the bullpen. He made an early morning flight from Syracuse where the Tides were playing. Belfiore, who was..." May 12

Baltimore Sun "Right-hander Steve Johnson will fill the Orioles starting rotation void Saturday against the Twins in Minnesota, manager Buck Showalter announced after Thursday’s 6-2 loss to Kansas City. Johnson, a St. Paul’s alum, will be starting in place of right-hander Miguel Gonzalez, who was placed on..." May 10

Kansas City Star "The early returns from the Royals’ new-look lineup offered promise Thursday night by producing three home runs in a 6-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. That was plenty for Jeremy Guthrie to extend his club-record unbeaten streak to 18 starts and for the Royals to end a..." May 10

Baltimore Sun "The Orioles have placed right-hander Miguel Gonzalez on the 15-day disabled list with a blister on his right thumb and called up right-hander Alex Burnett from Triple-A Norfolk to take his roster spot. Burnett has been working as a reliever at Norfolk, so it’s likely he won’t be Gonzalez’s..." May 09

CSN Baltimore "The Orioles acquired minor league third baseman Brandon Wood from the Kansas City Royals for cash considerations. The deal, first reported by the Kansas City Star, sends Wood, a 28-year-old who has not played in the majors since 2011 to Norfolk to beef up the Orioles’ minor league..." May 09

CSN Baltimore "For the first time this season the Orioles have won four in a row. They’re eight games over .500 for the first time and are now tied for the lead in the American League East. The Orioles’ 5-3 win over the Kansas City Royals before 12,344 on Wednesday night, had some decent pitching, good..." May 09

MLB.com "Nick Markakis was in the Orioles lineup as usual for Wednesday's game with the Royals, but as the designated hitter and not the starting right fielder. Markakis made his third start as the DH, with Chris Dickerson taking over in right field and batting ninth. For Markakis, it's a bit of a..." May 08

Baltimore Sun "Brian Roberts’ continuing injury saga will take on another chapter today when the Orioles second baseman visits a hamstring specialist in Dallas to determine why he is not responding as quickly as he had hoped after rupturing a tendon behind his right knee April 4. Orioles manager Buck..." May 08

CSN Baltimore "It had been 13 days since the Orioles last played at home. Lots had happened, most of it good, since then. “I forgot what the inside of this place looked like,” Chris Davis joked. Davis and the Orioles pulled off a host of fine plays in the field, and thanks to a bad one by the Kansas City..." May 08

CSN Baltimore "With their season 20 percent complete, the Orioles get a day off. Five weeks ago tomorrow, the season opened at Tampa Bay, and 32 games later, the Orioles are a thoroughly acceptable 19-13. A year ago, the Orioles were 20-12 through 32 games, and they finished with 93 wins. They currently..." May 06

CSN Baltimore "Freddy Garcia was terrific for six innings on Saturday. He certainly earned another start and maybe more, but don’t count on Garcia as a mainstay in the Orioles’ rotation. One of the weaknesses of the Orioles’ rotation has been its inability to go deep in games. For a moment, Garcia looked as..." May 05

CSN Baltimore "Chris Tillman gave the Orioles exactly what they needed on Thursday night. Tillman’s eight shutout innings, allowing just three hits, allowed the Orioles bullpen to rest in the 5-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels. Tillman was particularly impressive against Albert Pujols, making him chase high..." May 03

L.A. Daily News "The Angels weren't up to their old tricks Thursday. Under normal circumstances, that's a good thing. Thursday night's 5-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles was anything but normal save for the loss column, where the Angels have resided in five of their last six games. Shaky starting pitching..." May 03

Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Wei-Yin Chen was so good in his previous two starts that seeing the Baltimore lefty struggle to finish four innings and get battered by Seattle was surprising. "I thought he was pretty crisp with his fastball as evidenced by his strikeouts. He made a lot of mistakes with his off-speed pitches,"..." May 02

CSN Baltimore "Roberto Alomar played only three years for the Orioles. Those years were so good that he was elected to the team’s Hall of Fame, it was announced Wednesday morning. Alomar played for the Orioles from 1996-98, batting .312 with 50 home runs and 210 RBIs in those years. His .312 average is the..." May 01

CSN Baltimore "In 1996, Roberto Alomar came to the Orioles for the first of three seasons. He played second base so well that many people believe that no one in baseball had ever played the position as spectacularly. For that season and the two that followed them, Alomar was elected to the Orioles’ Hall of..." May 01

Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Brandon Maurer thought the first-inning woes that hampered the first two starts of his career were in the past. The last three outings had been an impressive turnaround for the Seattle rookie in his first month in the majors. Trouble with the first inning returned on Tuesday night. Nate..." May 01

Baltimore Sun "On his first off day as an Orioles minor leaguer, Double-A Bowie outfielder Henry Urrutia took a trip to Baltimore, where he got a tour of Camden Yards — the place he hopes his uphill and divot-filled baseball journey reaches its pinnacle. Thursday, Urrutia checked out the Orioles clubhouse,..." April 30

San Francisco Chronicle "This did not seem like a game destined to end with Eric Sogard taking his maiden victory pies to the face. On the day Yoenis Céspedes rejoined Oakland's lineup - and brought his powerful bat with him - the A's trailed 5-0 in the sixth inning. They trailed 6-4 in the seventh and 8-6 in the..." April 29

San Francisco Chronicle "In just about every area right now, the A's are in a funk, with the exception of third baseman Josh Donaldson. After his team fell 7-3 to Baltimore on Saturday, Oakland's fourth loss in a row and eighth in nine games, manager Bob Melvin said that the players are pressing. "Everyone is trying a..." April 28

Baltimore Sun "Orioles reserve catcher Taylor Teagarden is out likely three to four weeks after taking a foul ball to the tip of his left thumb in the sixth inning of the Orioles’ 7-3 win over the Oakland A’s on Saturday. Teagarden said when he took off his mitt, the thumb was bent backward and was “kind of..." April 28

CBSSports.com "Baseball commissioner Bud Selig seemingly has planned to step down, retire or vacate his job almost since he took office back in 1992. But this time, he is much more emphatic about his retirement pronouncements, even to the point of believability. “You can believe it,'' Selig said, pretty..." April 26

Baltimore Sun "Traveling to the West Coast for their longest road trip of 2013, and kicking it off in their personal palace of horrors, it wouldn’t have been surprising if the Orioles would have come out flat Thursday night. Instead, they seemingly awakened after two blasé innings to batter the Oakland..." April 26

Baltimore Sun "Hardly a day goes by without Orioles manager Buck Showalter being reminded in some way just how young Manny Machado, his prodigious 20-year-old third baseman, is. And Showalter believes that it is a good thing. “I said something the other day about some musician or an ex-player that wasn’t..." April 25

Baltimore Sun "Orioles reliever Pedro Strop said he’s never lost his confidence even through some rough outings in the first three weeks of the season. And the Orioles’ confidence in Strop to preserve a one-run lead in the eighth inning of their 4-3 win over the Blue Jays on Tuesday night was rewarded in..." April 24

CSN Baltimore "The Orioles have no word on Dylan Bundy, who underwent an examination on his right elbow and forearm Tuesday with Dr. James Andrews in Gulf Breeze, Fla. Bundy, who has yet to pitch this season, requested a second opinion on his arm after trying to throw on Monday. The Orioles sent him to..." April 24

Toronto Sun "The Toronto Blue Jays blew a save for the first time this season but for a change, didn’t blow the game. After losing a 5-2 seventh-inning lead, and nearly losing the game in the 10th, Wednesday Camden Yards, the Jays rallied with two out in the 11th to nip the Baltimore Orioles 6-5, averting a..." April 24

Baltimore Sun "Orioles top prospect Dylan Bundy, shelved since March with right arm tightness, was scheduled to see renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews on Tuesday in Gulf Breeze, Fla., to get a second opinion on what’s causing his ongoing discomfort. “We hope to find out that [Andrews] feels the..." April 24

CSN Baltimore "Jim Johnson had no idea when he was told. The Orioles have now 100 consecutive games when leading after seven innings. That streak began on Aug. 14, 2011, and that was a game that Johnson saved. “If you look at the date, that's pretty much when things started to turn around here. So we kind..." April 24