Monday is the last day of the 2009 minor league regular season. For some players, that may mean a call-up to the major leagues. For others, it’s the beginning of an off-season spent preparing for the next step on the ladder to the majors. And for others, it’s the end of an opportunity to play [...]
Like a lot of students, Orioles prospect Brian Matusz visited Washington, DC when he was in junior high. Like a lot of kids that age, he visited the monuments and the Smithsonians, but never imagined he’d return to the Mid Atlantic to help renew hope in the long-suffering Baltimore Orioles organization.
“In eighth grade I didn’t [...]
After a fairytale 2008 season, Orioles prospect Jake Arrieta’s 2009 campaign was a much different story through the first week of May. A string of rainouts in April and early May and a groin pull introduced the first few clouds into the promising career of Baltimore’s number three prospect, according to Baseball America.
“The layoff was [...]
Late this summer, baltimoresun.com added a blog about the Orioles’ minor league system called O’s on Deck. Recently, the blog’s creator and former Baseball Daily Digest contributor Dean Jones, Jr. was kind enough to share some of his thoughts about the Baysox and the Orioles’ farm system with BDD.
Tell us a little bit about yourself. [...]
Orioles prospect Brian Matusz showed the repertoire and poise that made him the first pitcher picked in the 2008 draft during his first home start for the High-A Frederick Keys on April 19. The left-hander scattered seven hits through six innings by setting up a sharp curve with a 91 to 94 mile per hour [...]
The minor league baseball season is in full swing and it’s time to plan a road trip. Each of the last three summers, I’ve tried to visit as many minor league cities as possible during a week-long trip. This year I decided to apply a little rigor to my trip planning by plotting a route [...]
The next stop on our tour of the Eastern League is Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Will Bentzel of Senators Fans Unite was kind enough to take us on a little tour of the renovations of one of the most unique parks in professional baseball, takes a stab at the Senators 2009 line-up, and what the Senators are [...]
The next guest in our series of Q&As with Eastern League bloggers and beat writers is Tony Lastoria, the boss over at Indians Prospect Insider and author of 2009 Cleveland Indians Top 100 Prospects. Tony tells us which Indians farmhand is the second-coming of Jim Thome, which one could be better than Victor Martinez, and [...]
In 2007, the Cleveland Indians tied for the best record in baseball before losing in the ALCS to the Boston Red Sox in seven games. No wonder expectations were so high in 2008. The Indians fell well short of those high expectations but rallied with a winning record in August and September to [...]
As our series of Q&As with Eastern League bloggers and beat writers continues, we check in with Mike Andrews of SoxProspects.comabout the Portland Sea Dogs. Below, Mike tells us his projected Sea Dogs rotation and starting line up, which former major leaguer Junichi Tazawa most resembles, and the one thing he’d do differently if he [...]
