Danny Coulombe and Keegan Akin have done their best to stabilize a Baltimore bullpen still struggling to replace Félix Bautista. The Orioles knew it would be next to impossible to replace Félix Bautista this season.
With spring training just over a week away, it’s clear that it won’t be easy to crack the Orioles’ bullpen. In the past, manager Brandon Hyde often had to struggle to come up with a representative bullpen.
The days of an already-departed Chance Sisco-level player making the next year’s calendar are hopefully gone for now One thing that I can always count on receiving as a Christmas gift is an Orioles calendar for the coming new year.
Spring training begins in just over two months at the Ed Smith Stadium complex in Sarasota. That means that executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias still has half the offseason to make moves, and he’s been known to add players while spring training is underway.
Surprising some, the Orioles offered contracts to each of the 17 players eligible for arbitration. They signed four players thought to be in danger of being non-tendered, left-handed pitcher Keegan Akin, outfielder Sam Hilliard, infielder/outfielder Jorge Mateo and outfielder Ryan McKenna to one-year contracts for the 2024 season.
They both started the year with the Orioles but couldn’t finish. Over the next several weeks, Camden Chat staff members will review one 2023 Orioles player each day to see how the season went for each of them.
The primary reason for that is a simple one: the starting group in Baltimore improved significantly over the course of the season.
The Orioles reinstated right-hander Austin Voth from the 60-day injured list and optioned righty Mike Baumann to Triple-A Norfolk, per a team announcement.
The Baltimore Orioles have placed left-handed reliever Keegan Akin on the injured list with a back problem. The following update comes from the Rotowire fantasy baseball portal: Akin was placed on the 15-day injured list with lower back discomfort Friday, Steve Melewski of MASNSports.com reports.
The 27-year-old left hander has no feel for his secondary pitches these days. With the Orioles in “win now” mode, how much longer will he get chances out of the ‘pen?
The Orioles overcame six silent offensive innings and scored three runs to tie their game with Cincinnati Reds. In the 10th inning, Keegan Akin allowed four runs and the Orioles lost to the Reds 11-7 before 21,152 at Camden Yards on Wednesday night.
During the first half of the Orioles’ season, Kyle Gibson has been a dependable starter. After a one hour, 40-minute rain delay, 16,234 fans sat through his shortest start with the Orioles.
The just-signed outfielder is batting sixth in his Orioles debut A tough starter awaits for the Orioles as they close out their short homestand with the series finale against the Guardians this afternoon.
After compiling a 7.35 earned-run average in 10 starts, the Orioles optioned Grayson Rodriguez to Triple-A Norfolk. The move was made after Friday night’s game when Rodriguez allowed nine runs, eight earned, on six hits in 3 1/3 innings in a 12-2 loss to Texas.
The Orioles placed infielder Ramón Urías on the 10-day injured list on Tuesday because of a left hamstring muscle strain. He injured it in the ninth inning of Monday’s 3-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.
WASHINGTON—Ramón Urías isn’t in the Orioles starting lineup against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night, though he’s available to play. Urías was hit in the head by a pitch from Chicago’s Kendall Graveman on Saturday and was held out on Sunday because he was in concussion protocol.
SARASOTA—Last year’s bullpen success was one of the biggest stories of the Orioles’ 2022 season. In December, the Orioles added to their stable by signing Mychal Givens, who was traded away from Baltimore to Colorado in December 2021.
The season has been long enough for the Boston Red Sox. Now the games are dragging out without much success to accompany them. After getting officially eliminated from playoff contention, the Red Sox now are just trying to gain some level of pride during the final stretch of the season.
The Detroit Tigers and Baltimore Orioles will both end their preseason schedule a day early for a peculiar reason: a lack of pitchers.
As with Borgschulte, this’ll be Fuller’s initial job on a major-league staff.
Akin is expected to be ready for spring training 2022.
The Orioles’ series with the Los Angeles Angels began with the team threatening its own American League record of 21 consecutive losses and increasing scrutiny from the national media that the Orioles aren’t doing all they can to win while rebuilding from the ground up.
Baltimore manager Brandon Hyde learned about the club's coronavirus-related setbacks late Tuesday night.
Pitcher Keegan Akin wants to show that he can be a valuable part of the Orioles’ rotation. His performance, though, is what matters, and it’s been poor.
The Orioles are 17-37, good for last place in the American League East. It would make sense for a rebuilding team at the bottom of its division to shop its veterans to corral more prospects, right?
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