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Baltimore Orioles: Taking Notes from the Ravens

Not every Orioles fan is a Ravens fan.  But for those in Baltimore, it’s been a great year in sports. For the first time since 1971, Baltimore has a winning baseball team and a champion football…Read More

Did the Orioles miss a chance with Kubel?

I’ve seen a few different reactions in the wake of the trade that sent Justin Upton and Chris Johnson from Arizona to Atlanta for a handful of players (including Martin Prado). Some folks say that…Read More

Orioles extend Showalter, Duquette

Baltimore Orioles’ majority owner Peter Angelos liked what he saw last year so much, that he’s decided to keep the two-pronged team of Buck Showalter and Dan Duquette around through the 2018…Read More

A Letter to Dan Duquette on “behalf” of Orioles fans…

Dear Mr. Duquette, My name is Margaret Hooper, and I am an Orioles fan. Whew! It feels so good to be able to say that! For a long time, I often didn’t mention which baseball team I rooted for because…Read More

Low-level Orioles signings

The Baltimore Orioles made some ripples yesterday in the world of free agent signings. I’m not even sure that these qualify as ripples, but they’re something. The Birds signed first baseman…Read More

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Were the winter meetings a flop for the Orioles?

Let me start by answering the rhetorical question that I put forth in my title…NO. Many fans I…Read More

Baltimore Orioles: Winter Meetings begin today

Let the rumors begin, be they surrounding the Baltimore Orioles or anyone else! Today starts the annual…Read More

Baltimore Orioles: Winter meetings in one week

This time next week Dan Duquette, Buck Showalter, and the entire Baltimore Orioles’ contingent…Read More

Orioles need high-quality people

MASN’s Steve Melewski published this article last week regarding the type of people that made up…Read More

Were the Orioles and Dan Duquette snubbed?

Late Wednesday night MASN’s Roch Kubatko reported that Oakland Athletics’ GM (and Vice-President)…Read More

Orioles Hitters Will Enjoy Yankee Stadium

The Orioles run producing ability this season is widely accredited the surplus of home runs the club…Read More

Trading Reynolds Now Sends a Bad Message

Orioles GM Dan Duquette has used mysterious methods the entire offseason. Though people have not been…Read More

Duquette’s Composition: Opus 2012

At the risk of losing every baseball reader I’ve gained over the last year, I’m going to make a confession:…Read More

What can the Orioles really produce?

As we get set to move into the final week leading up to pitchers and catchers reporting, a lot has…Read More

Baltimore Orioles: Different strokes

We’ve all heard, and in some cases participated in the criticism that’s been lobbed at the…Read More

Baltimore Orioles: The day after

You always expect mixed reactions when a player is traded, especially a fan favorite like Jeremy Guthrie.…Read More

Baltimore Orioles: Duquette on the Guthrie trade

According to mlbtraderumors.com the Orioles’ Dan Duquette stated that he sent Jeremy Guthrie…Read More

So Where Do We Stand?

In my previous blog before writing for Birds Watcher, I wrote a post about two months ago I called “Mission…Read More

Are the Orioles getting squeezed on the trade market? (updated)

Over the weekend we found out that the Orioles were looking to make some trades, mostly for pitching…Read More

Crafty lefties

On Monday I wrote about the Orioles being interested in Joe Saunders and Edwin Jackson. Now according…Read More