Snap thought on Bassitt: 37yo who just put up a 4.00ERA joins a crowded rotation of other 2WAR pitchers … this is a quantity-over-quality move and I wonder what that means for Zach Eflin

With Holliday to the IL, the Blaze trade makes a lot more sense, doesn’t it?

I’ve seen some extremely critical takes on the Orioles offseason but other than maybe beefing out the rotation with a #1, I’m okay with where-we-are vs. where-we-were. A lot will have to go right for us to be in a World Series though.

I feel like I’m the only person who liked the Blaze Alexander trade. Blaze is reprising the Jorge Mateo role and by all accounts, DBacks fans loved him. I also think Kade Strowd’s 2025 stats were a house of cards and Arizona is gonna find out the hard way

The decision to not bring back Anthony Santander is a bright bulb dimmed by the shade of Tyler O’Neill’s roster spot

On a day with few laughs, Tomoyuki Sugano to the Rockies topped the list. He’ll be retired by July and some of the home runs from April will still not have landed

Out of all pitchers with 200 minor league innings and a 4.50+ ERA, what active players (last three years) have fared the best? Jeff Hoffman, Robert Garcia, Justin Topa, Stephen Kolen, Johan Oviedo, Jack Leiter, Bobby Miller, Justin Slaten, Davis Martin, and Aaron Ashby are the top ten by WAR

I know the reasonable, educated Orioles fans are not foaming at the mouth over Kade friggin Strowd

It’s not news to Gator fans, but the rotation for their 2023 baseball team was Brandon Sproat, Hurston Waldrep, and Jac Caglianone. Isn’t that neat?

“Grow the arms, buy the bats” has resulted in the Orioles having grown 2/23 pitchers and 11/17 hitters on the 40-man

There’s no real difference between Disney Adults and Sports Fans but they truly don’t understand each other

“Can’t ever count the Bears out” just like, y’know the last six seasons

ShopRite probably has a ton of data showing that bread yeast goes in the Bread aisle and not the Baking aisle, but I don’t agree with it

Deeper cuts I like in MLB dynasty leagues that can help in 2026: Tre’ Morgan, 1B/OF TBR Khal Stephen, SP CLE Jurrangelo Cjintje, SP SEA Tommy Troy, UT ARI Bo Davidson, OF SFG Troy is blocked unless he can spell Thomas in OF Seattle has no wiggle room in rotation Bo didn’t hit when promoted to AA

Even if it’s true, “Die Hard is a Christmas movie” is an opinion that only the most basic men will somehow make their entire personality around the holidays

Petition to remove “all is calm” from Silent Night

Pay raise in a record-setting sales year? Best we can do is one Happy Holidays email written by the head of HR

The Orioles decided to trade Slater de Brun because one guy that looks like Jackson Holliday was enough

Feels like a lot for Shane Baz but the hit rate on prospects is abysmal and people don’t consider that as much as they should

I’d be gutted if my son stabbed me

Who dey?

Pete AlonsO. I don’t know what to do with my hands

Not Baltimore Millennials naming their daughters McKeldin

If the Orioles non-tender Mountcastle, we are kicking off the longest offseason ever. I’m already exhausted

FWIW Grayson Rodriguez’s #1 comp through age 24 on baseball reference is Dylan Bundy, and well

Orioles fans then: “Lego is a such a fun offseason hobby for baseball players!” 😃 Orioles fans now: “Batting cages are a fun offseason hobby for baseball players”

Currently pondering life’s great mysteries, such as “is there a God?”, “what happens when I die?”, and “am I bad at fantasy football or just unlucky?”

K-Pop Demon Hunters is a modern retelling of the Chipettes

I don’t know if this is controversial or not but Subway should fall into the slopbowl restaurant category

The Charli XCX / Wuthering Heights thing is exactly what Trent Reznor did with Lost Highway, right down to the music video, just thirty years later

I can’t believe the jeans ad was in fact racist this entire time. What a twist

I thought the missing 2020 minor league season counted towards a minor leaguers accruals for free agency, but observing now that it does not. Though I’m at a loss for why Orioles’ Logan Rinehart is a free agent, but Gerald Ogando is not.

Live look in at the exododus

Emotional maturity is responding kindly to an email asking for a status update

I know he didn’t say midget football on TV in 2025

Turns out the Orioles declined to pay Jeff Hoffman, not because of medicals, but because he was a choke artist and professional dillweed

My only complaint about last nights football game is that the Ravens didn’t score more points. I feel like they failed in that regard

“Orioles Looking For Impact Hitter” well it’s a good thing they haven’t spent the last several years flailing around collecting high draft picks to spend on impact hitters, who have all graduated their rookie status only to turn in a bottom-ten team offensive performance in 2025

re: Jeff Hoffman The O’s didn’t duck out of a bad situation with JH, he ducked out of a bad situation with the O’s. And even if he sucks with the Jays for the rest of his humongous contract, there’s always the World Series. And I hate that

This is a very “you should’ve done it over five years ago” post, but I’m finally going to shop around to get away from Spotify. They had me a stranglehold

Commending Steve Cohen for donating $1.3M to NYC teachers feels lot like throwing a pizza party because my son took his plate to the sink

Dodgers fans get the postseason game of all-time, from the greatest player of all time, and are about to see their first ballot hall of famer pitch in his final game in the World Series, and my team is enjoying Cancun for the 42nd year in a row

Albert Pujols as manager of the Orioles is maybe one of my life’s greatest plot twists

“Derrick Henry, player directly responsible for dropping the football leading to two losses, Rips Ravens' Goal-Line Failures After Loss to Rams”

Sometimes I pretend that one of those influencers that interview self-proclaimed “diehard fans” and ask questions like “where did Derrick Henry go to school” finds me so I can say that I do not give a heckin care about the Ravens when they suck but DH went to Alabama

Tony Mansolino hot take: it doesn’t matter who the Orioles manager is because it’s going to be a pleasant-but-toothless yes-man that turns in the lineup card the analytics department wants him to This also describes Tony Mansolino

I feel like when Yankees fans complain about management or ownership I just want to point to a chart on a easel showing where the Yankees have been to the playoffs 25 of 30 years

Confused about my office requiring badge access to get in, implying that someone would be here voluntarily

We’re spoiled to be able to see Joe Flacco three times this season

In hindsight it was probably silly for the Ravens to be proud of having three undrafted rookies in their starting defense