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Orioles Make Decision After Trade With NL Contender

Cam Sanders is getting an immediate opportunity with the Baltimore Orioles after arriving in a trade earlier this week. Baltimore recalled the hard-throwing right-hander from Triple-A Norfolk on Friday ahead of its second-half opener against the Houston Astros, just four days after acquiring him from the Pittsburgh Pirates for cash considerations.

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Adley Rutschman's Month-by-Month Stats Prove Why wRC+ Alone Lies to You

Adley Rutschman’s month by month 2026 stats have fluctuated wildly. He was hot in March and April, forgot how to hit in May, and bounced back beginning in the month of June.

Baltimore Orioles News / Baltimore Orioles on SI / July 17

The Biggest Mistake The Orioles Can't Repeat In The Second Half of the Season

The Orioles cannot be pushovers on the road. Not any longer. If they are going to salvage their season and not have it end up as lost as last year’s, they need to make immediate corrections in how they play the game away from home.

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The 'MLB All-Star Game MVPs' quiz

MLB began awarding the All-Star Game MVP Award during the 1962 season. How many of the MVPs since then can you name in eight minutes?

The 'National League MVPs' quiz

The 'MLB Home Run Derby winners' quiz

The 'MLB All-Star Game managers' quiz

Baltimore Orioles News / Baltimore Orioles on SI / July 17

Baltimore Orioles Grades for Every Position Group at All-Star Break

The Baltimore Orioles are 46-51 at the All-Star Break with 65 games left in the season. There have been high points (entering the All-Star Break with four consecutive wins) and low points (fourth-place in the American League East) for the Orioles.

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Every first-overall MLB draft pick from the 21st century

The MLB Draft doesn’t get the same attention as the NFL Draft…or the NBA Draft…or even the NHL Draft. There’s the element of a stay in a farm system, the general lack of immediate impact for MLB draft picks, and the fact that it’s tougher for one MLB player to turn a franchise’s fortunes around.

Baltimore Orioles News / Camden Chat / July 17

The Orioles’ second half schedule makes playoff hopes unclear

Given where we are, it’s funny to be this mad about a season, and still be potential buyers. The Orioles have played ugly-looking baseball all season—too

Baltimore Orioles News / BaltimoreBaseball.com / July 17

Questions about the Orioles’ 1st and 2nd halves

With the Orioles’ second half of the season about to begin at Houston on Friday night, let’s look at some questions about what happened in the first half and could happen in the second half.

Mike Elias News / Baltimore Orioles on SI / July 17

Orioles Player Most Likely to Be Traded After the All-Star Break

Mike Elias rarely does what he should as custodian of the Orioles baseball operations department. Hence an eight-year rebuild that is going nowhere. And now he wants you to believe he’s going to be a buyer with one of the worst rosters in MLB that has deep flaws and with a middling farm system to utilize to secure proven talent.

Blaze Alexander News / MLB on ClutchPoints / July 17

Orioles make obvious Blaze Alexander IL move after left hand injury

The Baltimore Orioles officially placed Blaze Alexander on the 10-day injured list on Thursday after he suffered a non-displaced fracture in his left hand, making the move retroactive to July 13.

MLB News / Field Level Media / July 16

Orioles try to stay hot in second half as Astros open homestand

The Baltimore Orioles and Houston Astros begin the next phase of the season after the All-Star break with Friday night's game in Houston. Somehow, these teams have managed to reach this stage of the schedule still in playoff contention in the American League.

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The 20 greatest MLB teams to never win the World Series

Even the most successful regular-season teams in Major League Baseball have failed to win it all. Here's our list of 20 such clubs that fall into that category.

Baltimore Orioles News / Athlon Sports / July 16

Orioles Place Versatile Infielder on IL, Recall Former Top Prospect

As the Baltimore Orioles return to action from the MLB All-Star break, they will do so without Blaze Alexander for the foreseeable future. Alexander, 27, was placed on the 10-day injured list on Monday, retroactive to July 13th.

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The 'Rushing TD leaders by NFL team' quiz

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The 'MLB Home Run Derby winners' quiz

The 'MLB All-Star starting pitchers' quiz

Baltimore Orioles News / Baltimore Orioles on SI / July 16

Where the Orioles Top Draft Picks Rank Among the Organization's Best Prospects

The days of the Orioles grabbing a player in the first round and having him enter their prospect lists barely in the top 10 are long gone. They’re over.

Baltimore Orioles News / Baltimore Orioles on SI / July 16

The Biggest Orioles Surprise (And Disappointment) of the First Half for the Season

Sometimes it just is what it is. Sometimes there have not been nearly enough shocking developments – on t he positive – for a team to get close to its

Mike Elias News / Baltimore Orioles on SI / July 16

Three Most Likely Orioles Prospects to Be Called Up After the All-Star Break

The days of Mike Elias being able to fill fans heads with folly about the next wave of overhyped prospects on the way to save the day and salvage the second-half of the season are long gone.

Baltimore Orioles News / Camden Chat / July 16

Orioles 2026 Draft Signing Tracker

The Orioles completed their 2026 draft class across 20 rounds on July 11 and 12. This year’s class has 20 players in it, one for each round. The next step is to get players signed and into the organization.

Keegan Akin News / Camden Chat / July 16

Orioles news: Keegan Akin gets Tommy John surgery

Hello, friends. The All-Star break continues. There’s still not going to be any more Orioles baseball until tomorrow when they start the non-mathematical second half of the season in Houston.

Mike Elias News / BaltimoreBaseball.com / July 16

Pondering the future of Orioles president of baseball operations Mike Elias

Even though the Orioles enter the All-Star break with their only four-game winning streak of the season, and they’re close enough to dream about a wild -ard berth, there’s still discontent among their fan base.

Keegan Akin News / MLB Trade Rumors / July 15

Keegan Akin Undergoes Tommy John Surgery

The Orioles announced that left-hander Keegan Akin has undergone Tommy John surgery. He will miss the remainder of this year and possibly all of 2027 as well.

Baltimore Orioles News / MLB on ClutchPoints / July 15

Predicting Orioles’ biggest move before MLB trade deadline

The Baltimore Orioles are in a weird place when it comes to the trade market. They were supposed to be perennial contenders by this point because a couple

Adley Rutschman News / MLB on ClutchPoints / July 15

Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman makes painful confession about trade rumors

Baltimore Orioles all-star catcher Adley Rutschman has spent his entire career with the franchise since being the first overall selection of the 2019 MLB Draft.

Blaze Alexander News / Larry Brown Sports / July 13

Orioles’ Blaze Alexander calls out Royals for injuring him

Baltimore Orioles infielder Blaze Alexander had a sharp response to the Kansas City Royals over the circumstances that led to him breaking his hand in Sunday’s game.

Blaze Alexander News / Ball Exclusives / July 12

$Watch: Orioles’ Blaze Alexander fractures hand before benches clear$

Watch: Orioles’ Blaze Alexander fractures hand before benches clear

In the seventh inning of the Baltimore Orioles’ 8-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday, Blaze Alexander suffered a fractured hand on an errant pitch before both benches cleared.

Leody Taveras News / Field Level Media / July 12

Leody Taveras, Orioles complete sweep of skidding Royals

Leody Taveras homered and later drove in the tiebreaking run as the Baltimore Orioles completed a three-game sweep of the visiting Kansas City Royals, heading into the All-Star break on a season-best four-game winning streak thanks to an 8-2 victory Sunday afternoon.