The Baltimore Orioles are reportedly close to hiring their next manager, and he may be the right guy for the underachieving club.
Baltimore Orioles fans have a lot to look forward to this offseason. One piece of good news is that the front office doesn't seem keen to trade star catcher Adley Rutschman this winter, despite the emergence of top prospect Samuel Basallo.
There have been just 19 walk-off home runs in the history of the World Series. How many of the players to hit one can you name in five minutes?
Take a trip back through the time with me, if you will, to May 21, 2022. That was the day that Adley Rutschman made his major league debut — and the fortunes of the Baltimore Orioles were forever changed.
Among the countless Hall of Famers who never experienced the joy of winning a World Series, there are several notable legends who stand out. Here's our list of the 25 greatest.
The Baltimore Orioles headed into this season with high expectations. After back-to-back playoff appearances, the Orioles endured a disappointing 2025 campaign, suffering their first losing season since 2021 and finishing in last place in the ultra-competitive AL East with a 75-87 record.
Many Baltimore Orioles fans felt like top prospect Samuel Basallo's arrival at Camden Yards, combined with his signing an eight-year, $67 million contract extension shortly after making his MLB debut, spelled the beginning of the end for Adley Rutschman's tenure with the team because he and Basallo are both primarily catchers.
Hello, friends. There are now 165 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day 2026. We’ve still got to get through the remainder of the postseason before we can really start to think about what next year’s roster is going to look like.
The arrival of top prospect Samuel Basallo to the Baltimore Orioles' big league team in late August provided a jolt of optimism among what was an otherwise disappointing 2025 season.
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The Baltimore Orioles may have been the most disappointing team in the American League in 2025.
The Baltimore Orioles were arguably the most disappointing team in MLB during the 2025 season. Nothing went right for the franchise right out of the gate.
In 2025, some MLB players soared while others struggled through forgettable seasons. Here are five players who fell short of expectations and ranked among the year’s biggest disappointments: Once the ace of the rotation, the 30-year-old was awful in 2025.
When the Baltimore Orioles signed 20-year-old top prospect Samuel Basallo to an eight-year, $67 million contract extension just a few weeks after he made his debut in Baltimore, there was a lot of speculation and chatter about what this might mean for Adley Rutschman's future with the franchise.
The Baltimore Orioles have some interesting decisions to make for this upcoming offseason. Perhaps the biggest is what they're going to do with their star catcher and face of the franchise, Adley Rutschman.
Much has been made about Baltimore Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman's regression on offense over the past two seasons. In 2023, Rutschman produced a .277 average and an .809 OPS, which was the second-best OPS out of qualified catchers in the MLB that season (only behind the .824 OPS that William Contreras produced with the Milwaukee Brewers).
The move may have little to do with this season and everything about what the Orioles may do with him in the offseason.
The Baltimore Orioles activated Adley Rutschman from the injured list Monday, giving the catcher a chance to play over the final six games of the season.
The Texas Rangers are going to take a long, hard look at their roster this offseason to figure out where things have gone wrong. Since winning the World Series in 2023, they have fallen woefully short of expectations ever since.
The Detroit Tigers have a few areas of their roster they will look to upgrade over the winter regardless of how their postseason goes. Help is needed on the left side of the infield, where All-Stars Zach McKinstry and Javier Baez have been doing their best to keep things afloat.
San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey knew he had his work cut out to get the team back to the level of prominence if was at during his playing career.
The St. Louis Cardinals are going to be one of the more intriguing teams in the league this upcoming offseason. This is certainly because of the fact that everything is up in the air.
The Chicago Cubs are a team that everyone will be keeping an eye on this offseason, following the free agency saga of right fielder Kyle Tucker. Will the Cubs be able to retain him this offseason?
The Baltimore Orioles shocked the baseball world last week when they signed recent call-up Samuel Basallo to an eight-year, $67 million extension. The rookie catcher had only played in four major league games at the time, but he is expected to be a middle-of-the-order power hitter.
This has been a career-worst season for the two-time All-Star.
His trip to the injured list with the left oblique strain was his first time on the IL in his four-year career.
Adley Rutschman has been one of the Baltimore Orioles' best players since making his MLB debut in 2022. After getting drafted with the first overall pick in the 2019 MLB Draft, Rutschman climbed the Orioles' pipeline in just two years to become the team's everyday catcher for the past four seasons.
Catcher Adley Rutschman is in his fourth major-league season as a member of the Baltimore Orioles. Rutschman was selected first overall in the 2019 MLB Draft out of Oregon State University and made his debut in 2022, making an immediate impact by finishing second in American League Rookie of the Year voting.
Baltimore Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman will be sidelined through the All-Star break due to the left oblique strain that sent him to the injured list for the first time in his career.
The news comes after he was a late scratch on Friday due to what the Orioles termed at the time as “abdominal tightness.”
Baltimore Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman was held out of the starting lineup on Saturday for the second straight game against the host New York Yankees.
Back in the 2019 MLB draft, the Baltimore Orioles made a pivotal decision, selecting catcher Adley Rutschman first overall. This choice wasn’t just a draft pick, it was the beginning of a new era in Baltimore, as they had their future franchise cornerstone in their hands.
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