Archive for March, 2009

31 Mar

BirdsWatcher To Be Featured In B-More Sun

So I just received an email from Michael saying that the blog will be featured in the Sun, somehow, somewhere. I don’t have much more info about it right now, but hopefully he will comment or post with more information. This is an exciting announcement for the blog, and I just thought that [...]

31 Mar

Penn Out of Rotation

After another horrible outing by Penn today, Manager Dave Trembley announced that Penn is no longer in the running for a spot in the rotation. The guy that beat Penn out was Alfredo Simon, who’s had a good spring training. Now that Penn lost out of a rotation spot, he now has to fight for [...]

30 Mar

Good News

Some good news came out of Orioles camp today, for once. Jim Johnson has healed from right shoulder pain and will pitch tomorrow, which is a huge relief. I wouldn’t even want to think about the Orioles bullpen this season if Johnson would have been seriously injured, I’m still hoping that he leaves tomorrows game [...]

27 Mar

AL East (Re)draft

I had this idea for a while to start a little game here on BirdsWatcher. I’ve played it before, but it was for football. So here is the idea, we will have 25 rounds, and only be able to draft players in the AL East.  The format will be 12 pitchers, and 13 position players. [...]

26 Mar

Wieters May be Sent Down Soon

Top prospect Matt Wieters, who is the only one of the Orioles’ elite prospects that is still in camp, probably will be sent to minor league camp very soon. Manager Dave Trembley said today that he wants to start playing the regular starting lineup over the next few days. That, and the fact that the [...]

26 Mar

Boo Teixeira!

This was a very funny video, and well put together. The song has been spreading around O’s fans like wildfire. Is anybody else planning on going to opening day, we need our boo crowed to take over the much annoying Yankee fans?

25 Mar

Who Is Justin Turner?

In my last post on here, I wrote about how impressive Justin Turner had been.  After I hit ‘post’ I realized that I had no idea who I was talking about, except that I knew his stats and what he looked like from seeing games on TV and through highlights.  So, I did a little [...]

25 Mar

Team Preview: Boston Red Sox

Team Name: Boston Red Sox
Last Years Record: 95-67, lost ALCS
Key Losses: No one. Maybe Coco Crisp, though I would not call him key.
Manny Ramirez is gone, but the Red Sox played the final three months
of 2008 without him.
Key Additions: Brad Penny (#5 starter) and John Smoltz (returns in
June). Rocco Baldelli for the bench, Takashi Saito [...]

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