Unsure if there’s ever been a more pointless exercise than an NFL mock draft. Within arms reach of being as socially inappropriate as talking about your fantasy football team out loud

In not-interesting news: Christian Encarnacion-Strand, who (effectively) replaced Chayse McDermott on the Orioles 40-man, was drafted five picks ahead of McDermott in the fourth round of the ‘21 draft

I’m sure everyone has noticed but Colton Cowser has slumped his way out of a starting gig and that makes me sad

The Norfolk Tides have 15 players with more than 25 plate appearances; nine of them have a K% of greater than 30%. In all of AAA, they have the third most strikeouts. Seven players are batting under .200. They are 19/20 in the International League in runs-per-game and record.

Yanks were 7-1 too

I don’t understand why the Oriole is floating above the R on the City Connect jerseys but I would expect nothing less from Fanatics.

I enjoy the wrought-iron B logo, but not so much the green details on everything. Just looks Irish to me.

The Royals City Connect hat logo is spiritually the Shake Shack logo. They’re also easily the cleanest CC jerseys of the bunch

This is also effectively a “people want faster horses” survey

Thinking about Jared Shuster vs Dylan Dodd in spring training 2023

Orioles have zero aura, probably the result of rostering 20 white guys with the same haircut

Younger cousin got a Jordan Westberg baseball card in his Easter basket, and I’m confused about where they got a photograph of him playing

Jayvien Sandridge is from Hagerstown and was originally drafted by the Orioles

How long before they add Mayo to the condiment race

I’ve heard things about Coby Mayo at third and he said “no thanks” to that

Did you watch the interview that the Turnstile band member did with Pete?

K on three pitches after a standing ovation is the most Casey at the Bat thing I’ve ever witnessed

I’m confused by the anthem singer’s jersey at the Orioles game. It’s … backwards? Name and number on the front … what the hell?

I am so out of the loop to be finding out today the Aberdeen Ironbirds were replaced by the Frederick Keys as Orioles Hi-A. They announced it in August!

@rosterresource.fangraphs.com do you have any insight on whether Daison Acosta was outrighted or optioned? The Padres tweeted outright but the MLB says option

I’m struggling to recall a team opening a season by demoting their most senior pitcher to the minors. I mean, *I get it* … but it doesn’t feel right? Man’s made 20+ starts the last four seasons?

Yuck, the Wine Collective in the Union Craft building is shutting down. I loved buying vermouth from them

I didn’t recognize anyone from the Czechia team except the three former Orioles (Vavra, Cervenka, Novak)

MLB Trade Rumours has a poll of 3000 baseball fans voting that the Orioles had the second best offseason of any team not the Dodgers. But Mike Elias apparently went on BlueSky and kicked a bunch of peoples’ dogs

Jackson Kowar was part of that draft class where the Royals had four first-round picks (Bubic, Singer, Lynch). it’s turned out better than I thought it would— three years ago, they were looking like four straight busts

Orioles need to have 2+ Jackson’s on every roster it seems

Snap thought on Bassitt: 37yo who just put up a 4.00ERA joins a crowded rotation of other 2WAR pitchers … this is a quantity-over-quality move and I wonder what that means for Zach Eflin

With Holliday to the IL, the Blaze trade makes a lot more sense, doesn’t it?

I’ve seen some extremely critical takes on the Orioles offseason but other than maybe beefing out the rotation with a #1, I’m okay with where-we-are vs. where-we-were. A lot will have to go right for us to be in a World Series though.

I feel like I’m the only person who liked the Blaze Alexander trade. Blaze is reprising the Jorge Mateo role and by all accounts, DBacks fans loved him. I also think Kade Strowd’s 2025 stats were a house of cards and Arizona is gonna find out the hard way

The decision to not bring back Anthony Santander is a bright bulb dimmed by the shade of Tyler O’Neill’s roster spot