Baltimore Sports Post

The Orioles went hard after free agent first basemen and Baltimore area native Mark Teixeira, but lost out in the negotiations to the hated New York Yankees when he signed a 8 year 180 million dollar contract.  Orioles fans are angry that the Orioles did not sign Teixeira.  Fans had hoped to have a new [...]

The Orioles are considering the future of Jim Johnson on their pitching staff.  He was brought through the majors as a started but finds himself entrenched as the O’s current setup man after his spectacular season in the pen.  The O’s options are to leave him as the setup man, move him back to starter, [...]

The Orioles did make a move in trading Chad Bradford to the Tampa Bay Rays for a player to be named later.  This takes $4.5 million off of the books for the O’s.  Hopefully the O’s will be able to get some other waiver trades done before the end of August.  Bradford was a good [...]

So far the Orioles have made no moves before the July 31st trade deadline.  Whispers from the warehouse are that they won’t make any moves for the waiver deadline, but will attempt to make some moves before the “real” deadline on August 31st.  The O’s have some players that they might be able to move [...]

The Orioles finalized their 25 man roster for opening day today. One surprise was the 11th hour release of Jay Gibbons. Gibbons has had issues of late putting together a few sub par injury plagued seasons, being suspended by the commissioner and having a terrible spring training, so Gibbons release is an action that most [...]