Greg Schwender

Yuck, the Wine Collective in the Union Craft building is shutting down. I loved buying vermouth from them

I didn’t recognize anyone from the Czechia team except the three former Orioles (Vavra, Cervenka, Novak)

MLB Trade Rumours has a poll of 3000 baseball fans voting that the Orioles had the second best offseason of any team not the Dodgers. But Mike Elias apparently went on BlueSky and kicked a bunch of peoples’ dogs

Jackson Kowar was part of that draft class where the Royals had four first-round picks (Bubic, Singer, Lynch). it’s turned out better than I thought it would— three years ago, they were looking like four straight busts

Orioles need to have 2+ Jackson’s on every roster it seems

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

Daniel Johnson? He has over 400 games there.

That’s a bit of a stretch— Blaze Alexander has 13 of 661 career games at CF.

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

Now it’s 1/22 with the departure of Kade 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

His specific case is about signing bundles of players and allocating money from lesser players to the better ones to skirt a $300K cap on bonuses using a buscone. Wouldn’t you say that a minor was cheated out of some money here because the Braves were playing games with the system?

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

And I could’ve been more clear— I don’t think Bodine has anything to do with Adley simply because teams don’t succession plan using prospects; the hit rate isn’t high enough. I wouldn’t even have considered Basallo a threat to AR until he could start hitting MLB pitching & also catch a solid game.

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

I don’t think the major league pieces have anything to do with it since Bodine wasn’t even the top catcher we drafted last year

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