Trade winds abrewin’?

From the Sun:
Another possibility beyond Stern and Bynum is Kansas City Royals outfielder Reggie Sanders. The Orioles and Royals have had several discussions about the veteran right-handed hitter in recent days, according to an industry source. Kansas City is seeking a reliever, but any deal most likely would hinge on the team’s picking up most [...]

Payton hurt

In today’s against the Twins, Jay Payton strained a hammie running to third base. Good news that it’s the lowest level of strain. Bad news? It may help Freddie Bynum’s chances of making the 25 man.
The Sun says that he could miss one to three weeks, meaning that he’s likely missing opening day. I’m sure [...]

Sloppy Saturday

Miguel Tejada and Ramon Hernandez had two errors apiece in yesterday’s split squad loss to the Dodgers.
Says Sam:
“We were awfully sloppy today,” manager Sam Perlozzo said. “I know it’s late and guys are kind of anxious. They’ve had a tough schedule. So we’ll write it off to the schedule and see if we can get [...]

Another Long Reliever in the mix

The Orioles signed Sean Tracey, strike that…rather, they CLAIMED him off waivers today from the Chicago White Sox.
I’m assuming that Tracey will thrown in the mix to compete with my boy Jeremy Guthrie, the Phoenix known as Todd Williams, and the rebound trail bounded, Rob Bell.
Judging by his stats (I love thebaseballcube.com for minor league [...]

What a swell Birthday present

I’m over at the folks and saw today’s recap and figured I’d throw a quickie up here.  
It’s not just Spring Training anymore… 
The O’s took down what was basically the Dodgers opening day roster 8-0
Nick Markakis had a monster day going 4 for 4 with 2 HR and 4 RBI. Tell me this kid is not going to have a [...]

Happy Birthday to ME

March 22nd is my birthday (may the downside of my 20’s officially begin), so I’m gonna do a late post tonight because chances the next two days will be busy.
Here’s my BOLD predictions for the season
Steve Trachsel will not be in the O’s rotation all season
Jaret Wright will have a decent season
Sam Perlozzo will make [...]

Happy Birthday to the Central

I completely forgot about this, but I ventured back to the old blogspot  site today and apparently this is the site’s 1st birthday. The archives only go back to March 31st, but it’s not the first post. So March 2oth is the site’s birthday.
I never really intented to do this, but my friend Chris told me I [...]

Fictious Headlines

I scanned the headlines today and there’s nothing really notable to talk about. I said my bit about Steve Trachsel yesterday and I am going to try and keep quiet about that for awhile, in fear that I may sound like a broken record. Bedard’s starting the opener…but I think we all knew that since [...]

A little flashback knowledge

Vacation is great….
Here’s some trivia to impress your friends and family with…
While going this morning to the front end of my car aligned, I was listening to XM’s great Baseball this Morning. I caught the tale end of this, but Buck Martinez, who also moonlights doing TV games for the O’s and ESPN, was talking [...]

Spring Progress Report

Sorry about the MIA week, but it’s all good now that I’ve got nine days off of work and nowhere to go, which is great.
I’ve been keeping an eye on the spring training boxscores and here’s several guys who’ve stood out thus far at the mid-way of the Spring.
Jeremy Guthrie 
This is one who I hope [...]