MATT WIETERS RUMORS & GOSSIP

Baltimore's catcher uses Rosetta Stone to communicate better with foreign pitchers.

CSN: It’s a different Matt Wieters these days. When the most ballyhooed young catcher in Orioles history came to town nearly three years ago, he seemed sweet and innocent. Wieters’ salad days are over.

The Orioles’ Tower of Power, the Game’s Next Joe Mauer. That’s what a magazine cover read before Matt Wieters‘ rookie season a few years ago. Well, 2009 and 2010 didn’t go quite as expected, and Wieters sort of fell out of the eye of mainstream fans who chose to focus on the next wave of young stars like Mike Stanton and Jason Heyward. But lo! Wieters...

Matt Wieters is finally starting to fulfill the massive promise he showed in the minors.His bat finally started to come around and he flashed some of that power we expected to see from Day 1. He smacked 22 homers, and easily set career highs in slugging percentage and ISO. I don't think anyone believed that Wieters would be such a good defensive catcher but he delivered Gold...

In a year where it seemed that so few things went right for the Baltimore Orioles, and so few players seemed to be able to grab the bull by the horns, perhaps last night the team got a bit of redemption. Catcher Matt Wieters and right fielder Nick Markakis were awarded their first ever Rawlings Gold Glove awards for their work in the field this past season. (J.J. Hardy was also nominated...

Matt Wieters entered his rookie season of 2009 with considerable fanfare — especially among the baseballing nerd community. Even before he’d played his first major-league game, Wieters had been celebrated both as the sporting version of Chuck Norris and, by the PECOTA projection system, as very possibly the best hitter in the majors. While perhaps overzealous, the expectations...

Another guest post form Donovan and I thank him. I am also supposed to pass along that the August stats referenced in this post are through August 11th only. Enjoy!This kind of seems like a funny question… what is being asked? Do we catch glimpses of the young catcher yawning in between pitches? Is he taking afternoon naps in the clubhouse? While those are certainly hilarious...

Few Oriole debuts in recent years have been more highly touted than that of Matt Wieters. From the day he was drafted out of Georgia Tech to the Sports Illustrated coverwhere writer Tom Verducci dubbed him “the next [Joe] Mauer,” visions of Hall of Fame talent has been dancing in the collective heads of Oriole Township. Obviously Wieters has yet to reach Mauer level,...

With the Orioles having lost 14 of their last 17 games and falling to 14-19 in thudding to the bottom of the American League East after a great 6-1 start, and with the team now collectively not being able to hit their way out of a wet paper bag, there is plenty to complain about. Plenty of disappointments up and down the roster through the season’s first five weeks. But I’m not...

Matt Wieters was supposed to be the savior. The one-man wrecking crew that would put the team, and the city, on his shoulders and carry us back to the promised land. He would be the next Cal. He would be our star. He would be the final piece of the puzzle. Going into his third second full season in the bigs however there seem to be more questions than answers. He was called "switch...