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Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson to start on IL; Cade Povich gets rotation spot
Later Sunday, manager Brandon Hyde said right-hander Félix Bautista will break camp with the team and be in Toronto for opening day Thursday.
The hottest new pitch in the Orioles’ bullpen? Félix Bautista and Yennier Cano are both throwing the cutter.
“He told me about it,” Bautista said. “I was like, ‘That’s really funny. Me too. I’m also throwing it.’”
Orioles complete spring training no-hitter with 7 pitchers
The seven-pitcher no-hitter is the first combined no-hitter in a spring training game since 2023. It’s the first on record for the Orioles, according to MLB.com.
Orioles bring back veteran right-hander Kyle Gibson on 1-year deal
Gibson pitched for the Orioles in 2023 and posted a 4.73 ERA in 192 innings.
Chesapeake Baysox make charitable pledge after alternate identity goes viral for, well, the wrong reasons
The Baysox are leaning into the situation for a good cause. “If we’re going to go viral, let’s make it count!” the team wrote on its Instagram account.
Maryland athletic director Damon Evans departs for SMU
The move comes one day after men’s basketball coach Kevin Willard said Evans was probably leaving.
As Maryland coach Kevin Willard hints he will stay, his athletic director is ‘probably going to SMU’
A source with direct knowledge said Willard has expressed his intention to remain at Maryland despite reports of interest from Villanova.
Tomoyuki Sugano finishes a strong spring with the Orioles on the mound — and the golf course
Sugano’s final outing of the spring Thursday night was his worst since joining the Orioles, but it set him up to being his first season in MLB.
Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson is ‘running out of time’ to get more spring at-bats
Henderson has an intercostal muscle strain, and while he completed a normal day of work — taking batting practice and fielding grounders — the 23-year-old may not appear in a spring training game before the finale Sunday.
With a shorter wall, Ryan Mountcastle can get back to pulling the ball for power
Mountcastle has driven in 14 runs in 13 games. He’s gone deep five times, and his OPS is 1.130. He’s doing that by pulling the ball 43.3% of the time, per FanGraphs.
Orioles option infield prospect Coby Mayo to Triple-A: ‘It obviously sucks’
Across 151 games for the Tides, Mayo holds a .279 batting average and a .919 on-base-plus-slugging percentage. And yet, his path to Baltimore still appears blocked.
Meet Riley Cooper, the loud, confident, heavy metal-loving Orioles minor league pitcher
Riley Cooper is not a high-profile pitching prospect in Baltimore’s system; he doesn’t throw with the sort of velocity that captivates scouts and makes front offices salivate. But he gets outs — and then he’ll yell and scream as if the whole stadium can hear the music that courses through him.
Cade Povich makes his strongest case yet for an Orioles rotation spot
Povich spun five no-hit innings, and while he walked three batters, he struck out six. Across his 14 2/3 innings this spring, Povich has struck out 15 batters with just those five runs in his last start against Toronto on his ledger.
The most captivating battle at Orioles spring training occurs on the pingpong table
Dean Kremer is the reigning pingpong champion from last spring training’s tournament. And while there aren’t plans this year for him to defend his title, each between Kremer and Bowman looked like a heavyweight title fight.
Large group of Orioles travel to Yankees’ spring stadium, the eventual regular season home of the Rays
“I brought more guys here than I normally would because of it,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “This is Yankee Stadium, plus a jet stream out to right field."
Who’s up? Tomoyuki Sugano, Liván Soto and other Orioles impressing at spring training
In less than two weeks, the Orioles will be playing their final exhibition game ahead of the regular season at Nationals Park. Here’s who looks good in Sarasota, Florida.
Bryan Baker accidentally found a new changeup grip, and the Orioles might really need it
Baker spent his offseason trying to make his changeup, which has held him back the last two seasons, a more consistent pitch in the strike zone.
Orioles notebook: Jackson Holliday at short, Félix Bautista’s new pitch and Samuel Basallo’s power
It’s not ideal for Hyde or the Orioles, considering all that has gone into making Holliday a strong second baseman. But it’s a contingency plan with Gunnar Henderson’s status for opening day uncertain.
Paint it orange: Orioles to revive all-orange uniforms for select home games
On April 12 against the Toronto Blue Jays, the Orioles will play in orange pants and orange tops, harkening back to the days of a pitching staff with four 20-game winners: Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar and Pat Dobson.
