Inside the Dugout: Are the O’s cooked? I decided to argue with myself about it.
Plus: Finally, some sense around the Camden Yards renovation.
Jon Meoli: As the Orioles search for an offensive fix, here’s one to avoid
This team is running a real risk of going into the playoffs playing 100 games’ worth of .500 baseball.
Jon Meoli: The Orioles’ depth from unlikely sources is helping them stay afloat
Without these players, this season might look a lot different.
Inside the Dugout: Quantifying the pain of this Orioles season
Plus, what’s next for Trevor Rogers.
Jon Meoli: Amid stop-start summer, the Orioles are trusting their process. As they should.
Every point of evidence suggests the Orioles are not going to change how they approach and try to win each game. The processes they’re sticking to now were honed long before the team had such high expectations, and are what in many ways helped them earn those expectations.
Jon Meoli: How Jackson Holliday achieved ‘impossible’ strength gains in the minors before returning to the Orioles
Holliday added strength and speed that have helped make this round with the Orioles much more productive.
Inside the Dugout: Why this Orioles team breaks my brain
Plus, what Coby Mayo learned and lamenting a lost friend.
Jon Meoli: Adley Rutschman needed Sunday’s home run. Now the Orioles need more of that from him.
If the Orioles have any hope of maintaining their advantaged status in the race for the American League playoffs, they will need Rutschman to return to himself.
Arms on the Farm: The rapid development of Orioles pitching prospect Michael Forret
Michael Forret, a 14th-round pick last summer, has seen his velocity increase as a member of the Orioles organization.
Jon Meoli: Orioles prospect Samuel Basallo is on a hot streak. Reining in a unique trait helped.
To overcome the first true struggles on a baseball field he’s ever had, Basallo had to suppress one of his uncommon talents: his recall of how he’s pitched.
Inside the Dugout: Could the qualifying offer keep Anthony Santander around?
Plus, Craig Kimbrel’s inconsistency, a new arm on the farm, and more.
Jon Meoli: How the Orioles develop pitching prospects and keep them healthy
At all levels of the Orioles’ farm system below Triple-A, many games will feature a starter and a second, planned pitcher who will pitch bulk innings behind him.
Inside the Dugout: Rodriguez’s steady growth and Holliday’s hard-hitting return
Plus: A young, promising arm to watch in Delmarva.
Jon Meoli: The Orioles’ offense is getting back to form. One thing remains curiously missing.
The last time the Orioles won a game they were trailing after six innings was May 25.
Jon Meoli: 5 thoughts on a week that could define the Orioles’ season — and future
That stretch from late May to mid-June when the bad news came quickly on so many elbow injuries will be hard to top in terms of season-defining stretches for these Orioles. It feels like we just had another, though.
Jon Meoli: On the Orioles’ floor-raising deadline deals, and the reality check they provide
It might not feel good to hear, but these are the types of acquisitions this team needed. There’s not much that can raise its ceiling, given the stars up and down the lineup and the two pitchers atop its rotation. It needed its floor to be raised.
Jon Meoli: How will Mike Elias approach this trade deadline?
Plus, what Austin Hays really meant to the team and Adley Rutschman’s struggles.
Jon Meoli: In jumping the trade market, the Orioles check a lot of pitching boxes
They probably couldn’t have drawn up a more ideal set of trades if they tried.
Jon Meoli: Manny Machado returning at this trade deadline feels fitting for the Orioles. Here’s why.
Machado’s 2018 trade to the Dodgers kicked off this Orioles rebuild. Now that bright future has been realized in so many ways.